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Italian Culture And Geography
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culture
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Who is called 'la spada' and lead the Red shirts?
independent democratic republic (Repubblica Italiana)
Giuseppe Garibaldi
Cavour
John Cabot
2. Who is the greatest artist - scientist - and inventor of all time?
Minister of Education
Leonardo da Vinci
Giacomo Puccini
Mont Blanc
3. Where is mt Etna located?
Tiber
Giuseppe Garibaldi
Capri - Ischia
Eastern Sicily
4. Which island is very mountainous and is rich in livestock?
Sardinia
Christian Democratic Party
Adige
John Cabot
5. Who is the greatest Venetian painter of the Renaissance who painted the Rape of Europa?
Titian
Donatello
Dante
Bernini
6. Which seas are to the west?
South of Naples
Brunelleschi
Ligurian Sea - Tyrrhenian Sea
soccer - il calcio
7. Nickname for Italy
8. Who designed the dome of the Duomo in Florence?
Brunelleschi
Giuseppe Verdi
Romance
Bernini
9. Which sea is to the east?
Roman Catholics
Sunny Italy
Sicily
Adriatic Sea
10. What is the name of the old which who brings gifts to children on the night of January 6th?
Roman Catholics
Minister of Education
La Befana
Cavour
11. Which volcano is located on the island of Stromboli?
Adige
South of Naples
Stromboli
The Alps
12. Which four countries touch Italy? (Alphabetical)
Romance
Austria - France - Slovenia - Switzerland
independent democratic republic (Repubblica Italiana)
Dante
13. Which seas are to the south?
Victor Emmanuel II of Piedmont
'il bel paese'
Arturo Toscanini
Ionian Sea - Mediterranean Sea
14. Who is the author of the Divine Comedy and the father of the Italian language?
Dante
Galileo
Carbone
Sunny Italy
15. Who 'discovered' America in 1492?
Etna
Brunelleschi
Christopher Columbus
Roman Catholics
16. Who sculpted the Gates of Paradise which are the bronze doors of the baptistery of the Duomo in Florence?
Arturo Toscanini
Donatello
Arno
Lorenzo Ghiberti
17. Who was the father of modern political science and wrote Il Principe (The Prince)?
Tiber
Machiavelli
Stromboli
Rossini
18. Which treaty formed the Vatican City
Raphael
Lateran Treaty of 1929
Luigi Pirandello
Florida
19. Which two islands are in the Bay of Naples?
Michelangelo
Capri - Ischia
Etna
Arno
20. Who sculpted La Pieta and David and painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel?
Victor Emmanuel II of Piedmont
Michelangelo
Etna
Ligurian Sea - Tyrrhenian Sea
21. What political party is in power?
Christian Democratic Party
Adige
Mussolini
Vesuvius
22. Who wrote the play Six Characters in Search of an Author?
Luigi Pirandello
Botticelli
The Apennines
Christopher Columbus
23. Who painted The Birth of Venus?
Giuseppe Mazzini
Christian Democratic Party
Luigi Pirandello
Botticelli
24. Who was the leader of the Italian independence movement?
Mont Blanc
Vesuvius
Giuseppe Mazzini
The Apennines
25. Who is the physicist who escaped to the US and helped develop the atomic and hydrogen bombs?
Carbone
Enrico Fermi
Ionian Sea - Mediterranean Sea
Etna
26. Where is mt Stromboli located?
Island of Stromboli
John Cabot
Italian
The Apennines
27. Which is the second longest river that flows through Verona?
Adige
Rossini
Raphael
Michelangelo
28. Which mountain range forms a natural border across northern Italy?
Boccaccio
Eastern Sicily
Lorenzo Ghiberti
The Alps
29. How do you say 'the awakening' in Italian?
Risorgimento
Capri - Ischia
Christopher Columbus
Cavour
30. Which river flows through Florence and Pisa?
Po
Giuseppe Verdi
Capri - Ischia
Arno
31. Who lead the Fascist movement?
The Alps
Carbone
Mussolini
Botticelli
32. Who was the brain ('il cervello') of the Italian independence movement and the King of Piedmont?
Vesuvius
Leonardo da Vinci
Cavour
Romance
33. Which painter note for his idealized and tranquil madonnas and portraits painted The School of Athens - Alba Madonna - and the Transfiguration of Christ?
Ligurian Sea - Tyrrhenian Sea
John Cabot
Raphael
Rossini
34. Which mountain range forms the 'backbone'?
The Apennines
Capri - Ischia
Alessandro Volta
Ligurian Sea - Tyrrhenian Sea
35. Who invented the electric battery and electric condenser?
Alessandro Volta
Brunelleschi
Cavour
Adriatic Sea
36. Who composed the Barber of Seville and William Tell?
Dante
Rossini
Minister of Education
Galileo
37. Who developed wireless telegraphy?
Cavour
Lorenzo Ghiberti
Stromboli
Marconi
38. Approximately twice the size of which US state?
Florida
Christian Democratic Party
Lateran Treaty of 1929
Austria - France - Slovenia - Switzerland
39. Where is mt Vesuvius located?
Sunny Italy
South of Naples
Arturo Toscanini
Caruso
40. Which river is the longest?
Giuseppe Mazzini
Mont Blanc
Po
John Cabot
41. What is the highest point in Italy?
Ligurian Sea - Tyrrhenian Sea
Minister of Education
Mont Blanc
Giuseppe Garibaldi
42. Italy is a ___ ___ ___. (type of government)
Sunny Italy
independent democratic republic (Repubblica Italiana)
Ionian Sea - Mediterranean Sea
Austria - France - Slovenia - Switzerland
43. Who wrote Madama Butterfly?
Island of Stromboli
Petrarca
Galileo
Giacomo Puccini
44. Who sculpted David and Gattamelata?
John Cabot
Donatello
Roman Catholics
Stromboli
45. Which volcano is located south of Naples?
Brunelleschi
Titian
Caruso
Vesuvius
46. Who was the leading sculptor of the Baroque period who was designed Saint Peters Square in the Vatican city?
Etna
Arno
Machiavelli
Bernini
47. What is the official language of Italy?
Italian
Giuseppe Mazzini
Antonio Vivaldi
Leonardo da Vinci
48. Who traveled across the Atlantic Ocean and discovered the east coast of present-day United States?
Machiavelli
Dante
John Cabot
Antonio Vivaldi
49. Who is the greatest conductor of all time?
John Cabot
Lorenzo Ghiberti
Arturo Toscanini
Risorgimento
50. Who is the greatest opera composer?
Giuseppe Verdi
Luigi Pirandello
Capri - Ischia
Eastern Sicily