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Italian Culture And Geography
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Who is the greatest conductor of all time?
Marconi
Arturo Toscanini
Bernini
Giacomo Puccini
2. Which painter note for his idealized and tranquil madonnas and portraits painted The School of Athens - Alba Madonna - and the Transfiguration of Christ?
John Cabot
Austria - France - Slovenia - Switzerland
Raphael
Rossini
3. Which treaty formed the Vatican City
Leonardo da Vinci
Capri - Ischia
Giacomo Puccini
Lateran Treaty of 1929
4. Which mountain range forms the 'backbone'?
Tiber
Botticelli
Romance
The Apennines
5. What is the most popular sport in Italy?
Sunny Italy
The Apennines
soccer - il calcio
Victor Emmanuel II of Piedmont
6. Who traveled across the Atlantic Ocean and discovered the east coast of present-day United States?
Cavour
John Cabot
Donatello
Brunelleschi
7. Who invented the electric battery and electric condenser?
Adriatic Sea
Sunny Italy
Alessandro Volta
Marco Polo
8. Who developed wireless telegraphy?
Capri - Ischia
Botticelli
Mont Blanc
Marconi
9. Where is mt Stromboli located?
Boccaccio
Titian
Machiavelli
Island of Stromboli
10. Who is considered the founder of modern experimental science - invented the telescope - thermometer - and hydroscale - and was put on house arrest for opposing the church?
Galileo
Christopher Columbus
independent democratic republic (Repubblica Italiana)
Sunny Italy
11. Who was the author of the Decameron - a collection of short stories?
Bernini
Titian
Boccaccio
soccer - il calcio
12. Which river flows through Florence and Pisa?
Ionian Sea - Mediterranean Sea
Arno
Garda
Adriatic Sea
13. Which island is shaped like a triangle and lies just off the toe of the Italian boot?
Sicily
independent democratic republic (Repubblica Italiana)
Christian Democratic Party
Rossini
14. Which seas are to the west?
Ligurian Sea - Tyrrhenian Sea
The Alps
Florida
Giuseppe Mazzini
15. Italian is a ___ language.
Austria - France - Slovenia - Switzerland
Romance
Po
Arno
16. Who was the leader of the Italian independence movement?
Marco Polo
Garda
Giuseppe Mazzini
independent democratic republic (Repubblica Italiana)
17. Nickname for Italy
18. Who composed the Four Seasons?
Risorgimento
Lorenzo Ghiberti
Adige
Antonio Vivaldi
19. Which two islands are in the Bay of Naples?
Capri - Ischia
The Alps
Etna
Galileo
20. Who was the first king of Italy?
Victor Emmanuel II of Piedmont
Lorenzo Ghiberti
Giuseppe Verdi
Antonio Vivaldi
21. Which is the second longest river that flows through Verona?
Giuseppe Garibaldi
Ligurian Sea - Tyrrhenian Sea
Enrico Fermi
Adige
22. Who was the leading sculptor of the Baroque period who was designed Saint Peters Square in the Vatican city?
Island of Stromboli
Antonio Vivaldi
Cavour
Bernini
23. Which volcano is located south of Naples?
Roman Catholics
Antonio Vivaldi
Mont Blanc
Vesuvius
24. Where is mt Vesuvius located?
'il bel paese'
Christian Democratic Party
The Alps
South of Naples
25. Where is mt Etna located?
Eastern Sicily
Arturo Toscanini
Ionian Sea - Mediterranean Sea
Arno
26. What political party is in power?
Christian Democratic Party
The Apennines
Giuseppe Mazzini
Lateran Treaty of 1929
27. How do you say 'coal' in Italian?
independent democratic republic (Repubblica Italiana)
Roman Catholics
Carbone
'il bel paese'
28. Which sea is to the east?
Adriatic Sea
Mussolini
La Befana
Arno
29. Who wrote the play Six Characters in Search of an Author?
Mussolini
Giuseppe Verdi
Luigi Pirandello
Adige
30. The ___ _ ___ is in charge of all education.
Giuseppe Mazzini
Island of Stromboli
Minister of Education
Sunny Italy
31. Which is Italy's largest lake?
Bernini
Garda
Tiber
independent democratic republic (Repubblica Italiana)
32. Who sculpted David and Gattamelata?
Marco Polo
Romance
Arno
Donatello
33. Italy is generally called '___ ___'. (refering to climate)
Sunny Italy
independent democratic republic (Repubblica Italiana)
Enrico Fermi
Lateran Treaty of 1929
34. Who painted The Birth of Venus?
Botticelli
Arno
Etna
Galileo
35. Which island is very mountainous and is rich in livestock?
Christopher Columbus
The Alps
Sardinia
Galileo
36. Who is the greatest Venetian painter of the Renaissance who painted the Rape of Europa?
Titian
Ionian Sea - Mediterranean Sea
Leonardo da Vinci
Minister of Education
37. Who sculpted La Pieta and David and painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel?
Michelangelo
Caruso
Christopher Columbus
Etna
38. Who is the greatest artist - scientist - and inventor of all time?
Brunelleschi
Leonardo da Vinci
Titian
La Befana
39. Who is the greatest opera composer?
Giuseppe Verdi
Garda
Ionian Sea - Mediterranean Sea
South of Naples
40. Which four countries touch Italy? (Alphabetical)
Austria - France - Slovenia - Switzerland
Roman Catholics
Caruso
The Alps
41. Which volcano is located on the island of Stromboli?
Ligurian Sea - Tyrrhenian Sea
Stromboli
Christopher Columbus
Roman Catholics
42. Who lead the Fascist movement?
Mussolini
Machiavelli
The Apennines
independent democratic republic (Repubblica Italiana)
43. Who sculpted the Gates of Paradise which are the bronze doors of the baptistery of the Duomo in Florence?
Italian
Petrarca
Lorenzo Ghiberti
Enrico Fermi
44. What is the highest point in Italy?
Austria - France - Slovenia - Switzerland
Giuseppe Garibaldi
Mont Blanc
The Alps
45. Which seas are to the south?
Tiber
Sicily
Ionian Sea - Mediterranean Sea
Giuseppe Mazzini
46. Which volcano is located in eastern Sicily?
Giuseppe Garibaldi
Etna
Donatello
Marco Polo
47. Who was the brain ('il cervello') of the Italian independence movement and the King of Piedmont?
Cavour
Sicily
Lorenzo Ghiberti
Leonardo da Vinci
48. What is the official language of Italy?
Mont Blanc
Italian
Antonio Vivaldi
Giuseppe Garibaldi
49. Which mountain range forms a natural border across northern Italy?
The Alps
Luigi Pirandello
Romance
Minister of Education
50. Which river is the longest?
Po
Sardinia
Michelangelo
Ionian Sea - Mediterranean Sea