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Italian Culture And Geography
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culture
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The majority of Italians are ____ _____. (religion)
Ionian Sea - Mediterranean Sea
Donatello
Botticelli
Roman Catholics
2. What is the official language of Italy?
Brunelleschi
Vesuvius
Italian
Marconi
3. Who was the leader of the Italian independence movement?
Giuseppe Mazzini
Risorgimento
Donatello
Po
4. Which river is the longest?
Giuseppe Verdi
Stromboli
Florida
Po
5. Who traveled across the Atlantic Ocean and discovered the east coast of present-day United States?
Christian Democratic Party
John Cabot
Eastern Sicily
Luigi Pirandello
6. Which treaty formed the Vatican City
Tiber
Lateran Treaty of 1929
Brunelleschi
Italian
7. Spans across which sea?
Dante
Mediterranean Sea
Romance
Galileo
8. What is the name of the old which who brings gifts to children on the night of January 6th?
La Befana
Arno
Ionian Sea - Mediterranean Sea
Marconi
9. Which two islands are in the Bay of Naples?
Caruso
Mediterranean Sea
The Apennines
Capri - Ischia
10. Who painted The Birth of Venus?
Capri - Ischia
Ligurian Sea - Tyrrhenian Sea
Minister of Education
Botticelli
11. Who sculpted La Pieta and David and painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel?
Carbone
Risorgimento
Michelangelo
Florida
12. Approximately twice the size of which US state?
Romance
Lateran Treaty of 1929
Minister of Education
Florida
13. Which river flows through Florence and Pisa?
Arno
'il bel paese'
Donatello
Romance
14. Who composed the Four Seasons?
Donatello
Antonio Vivaldi
Galileo
Petrarca
15. Who was the first king of Italy?
Stromboli
Machiavelli
Victor Emmanuel II of Piedmont
Christian Democratic Party
16. Who sculpted the Gates of Paradise which are the bronze doors of the baptistery of the Duomo in Florence?
Romance
Michelangelo
Lorenzo Ghiberti
Italian
17. Who is the greatest Venetian painter of the Renaissance who painted the Rape of Europa?
Titian
Luigi Pirandello
Michelangelo
The Alps
18. How do you say 'the awakening' in Italian?
Sardinia
Risorgimento
Sicily
Arturo Toscanini
19. Who is the greatest conductor of all time?
Arno
Carbone
Arturo Toscanini
'il bel paese'
20. Who lead the Fascist movement?
Mussolini
Galileo
Donatello
Risorgimento
21. Who wrote the play Six Characters in Search of an Author?
Luigi Pirandello
Bernini
Giacomo Puccini
Titian
22. The ___ _ ___ is in charge of all education.
Leonardo da Vinci
Minister of Education
Risorgimento
Sunny Italy
23. What is the highest point in Italy?
Mont Blanc
Giuseppe Mazzini
Giuseppe Garibaldi
Alessandro Volta
24. Who is the author of the Divine Comedy and the father of the Italian language?
Raphael
Dante
The Alps
Mediterranean Sea
25. Which volcano is located in eastern Sicily?
Sunny Italy
Etna
La Befana
Marconi
26. Who was the father of modern political science and wrote Il Principe (The Prince)?
Arturo Toscanini
Mont Blanc
Adige
Machiavelli
27. Who sculpted David and Gattamelata?
Italian
Alessandro Volta
Donatello
Caruso
28. Who invented the electric battery and electric condenser?
Rossini
Alessandro Volta
independent democratic republic (Repubblica Italiana)
Adige
29. What is the most popular sport in Italy?
Carbone
soccer - il calcio
Garda
Marconi
30. Who designed the dome of the Duomo in Florence?
Leonardo da Vinci
Enrico Fermi
South of Naples
Brunelleschi
31. Where is mt Etna located?
Mussolini
Eastern Sicily
Carbone
La Befana
32. Nickname for Italy
33. Who developed wireless telegraphy?
The Apennines
Marconi
Risorgimento
Carbone
34. Which is the second longest river that flows through Verona?
Stromboli
independent democratic republic (Repubblica Italiana)
Adige
Sunny Italy
35. Which volcano is located south of Naples?
Lorenzo Ghiberti
Vesuvius
Christopher Columbus
Christian Democratic Party
36. Which river flows through Rome?
Tiber
Po
Giuseppe Verdi
Arturo Toscanini
37. Who is the physicist who escaped to the US and helped develop the atomic and hydrogen bombs?
Sicily
Victor Emmanuel II of Piedmont
Enrico Fermi
Eastern Sicily
38. Which sea is to the east?
Antonio Vivaldi
Giuseppe Mazzini
Sunny Italy
Adriatic Sea
39. Who was the brain ('il cervello') of the Italian independence movement and the King of Piedmont?
Titian
Sunny Italy
Cavour
Sardinia
40. Who is the greatest opera composer?
Italian
Carbone
Giuseppe Verdi
Alessandro Volta
41. Who is called 'la spada' and lead the Red shirts?
Minister of Education
Brunelleschi
Leonardo da Vinci
Giuseppe Garibaldi
42. Who composed the Barber of Seville and William Tell?
Mont Blanc
Florida
Mediterranean Sea
Rossini
43. Who is the greatest artist - scientist - and inventor of all time?
Luigi Pirandello
Raphael
Christopher Columbus
Leonardo da Vinci
44. Where is mt Stromboli located?
Ionian Sea - Mediterranean Sea
The Apennines
Etna
Island of Stromboli
45. What Venetian explorer and traveler crossed central Asia and visited China - Sumatra - Ceylon - India and Persia?
Marco Polo
Mont Blanc
Arno
Sunny Italy
46. What political party is in power?
The Apennines
Mont Blanc
Vesuvius
Christian Democratic Party
47. Which four countries touch Italy? (Alphabetical)
Austria - France - Slovenia - Switzerland
Luigi Pirandello
Adige
Ligurian Sea - Tyrrhenian Sea
48. Italian is a ___ language.
Romance
Alessandro Volta
Arno
Rossini
49. Italy is generally called '___ ___'. (refering to climate)
Mont Blanc
Sunny Italy
Minister of Education
Galileo
50. Who is the most famous Italian tenor?
Sicily
Rossini
Tiber
Caruso