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Italian Culture And Geography
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1. Nickname for Italy
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2. Who was the leader of the Italian independence movement?
Roman Catholics
Giuseppe Mazzini
Boccaccio
Etna
3. Which mountain range forms a natural border across northern Italy?
The Alps
Lorenzo Ghiberti
Rossini
Marco Polo
4. Who invented the electric battery and electric condenser?
Roman Catholics
Stromboli
Alessandro Volta
Eastern Sicily
5. Who was the leading sculptor of the Baroque period who was designed Saint Peters Square in the Vatican city?
Bernini
Sardinia
Mussolini
Arturo Toscanini
6. Spans across which sea?
Mediterranean Sea
Capri - Ischia
Giuseppe Garibaldi
Enrico Fermi
7. Italian is a ___ language.
Island of Stromboli
Romance
Giuseppe Mazzini
Antonio Vivaldi
8. What political party is in power?
Christopher Columbus
Austria - France - Slovenia - Switzerland
Christian Democratic Party
Bernini
9. Who is called 'la spada' and lead the Red shirts?
Vesuvius
Adige
Giuseppe Garibaldi
Capri - Ischia
10. Who is the greatest artist - scientist - and inventor of all time?
Giuseppe Garibaldi
Giacomo Puccini
Leonardo da Vinci
Ionian Sea - Mediterranean Sea
11. Italy is generally called '___ ___'. (refering to climate)
Sunny Italy
Giuseppe Verdi
Adriatic Sea
Etna
12. Who was the father of modern political science and wrote Il Principe (The Prince)?
Machiavelli
Po
Carbone
Rossini
13. Which treaty formed the Vatican City
soccer - il calcio
Lateran Treaty of 1929
Sunny Italy
Arturo Toscanini
14. Which river flows through Florence and Pisa?
Mussolini
Minister of Education
Arno
The Apennines
15. Who sculpted La Pieta and David and painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel?
Leonardo da Vinci
Romance
Mediterranean Sea
Michelangelo
16. Who 'discovered' America in 1492?
Donatello
Galileo
Christopher Columbus
Mussolini
17. Who is the most famous Italian tenor?
Risorgimento
Italian
Caruso
Giuseppe Garibaldi
18. What Venetian explorer and traveler crossed central Asia and visited China - Sumatra - Ceylon - India and Persia?
Cavour
Marco Polo
Risorgimento
South of Naples
19. Which sea is to the east?
Lateran Treaty of 1929
Giacomo Puccini
Adriatic Sea
Etna
20. What is the official language of Italy?
Luigi Pirandello
Italian
Antonio Vivaldi
Carbone
21. Who is the greatest conductor of all time?
Mont Blanc
Island of Stromboli
South of Naples
Arturo Toscanini
22. Who was the great Italian poet?
Brunelleschi
Petrarca
Michelangelo
The Apennines
23. What is the highest point in Italy?
Arturo Toscanini
Mont Blanc
Titian
Capri - Ischia
24. Who sculpted David and Gattamelata?
Petrarca
Carbone
Cavour
Donatello
25. Where is mt Vesuvius located?
South of Naples
Romance
Caruso
Boccaccio
26. Who traveled across the Atlantic Ocean and discovered the east coast of present-day United States?
Giuseppe Mazzini
John Cabot
Island of Stromboli
Mediterranean Sea
27. What is the most popular sport in Italy?
Lorenzo Ghiberti
soccer - il calcio
Sicily
Petrarca
28. Who developed wireless telegraphy?
Austria - France - Slovenia - Switzerland
Galileo
Cavour
Marconi
29. Which volcano is located in eastern Sicily?
Enrico Fermi
Garda
Dante
Etna
30. Which two islands are in the Bay of Naples?
Christopher Columbus
Lorenzo Ghiberti
Capri - Ischia
Mediterranean Sea
31. The ___ _ ___ is in charge of all education.
'il bel paese'
Minister of Education
The Alps
Mussolini
32. Which volcano is located on the island of Stromboli?
Mont Blanc
Vesuvius
Stromboli
Leonardo da Vinci
33. How do you say 'the awakening' in Italian?
Boccaccio
Caruso
Christopher Columbus
Risorgimento
34. 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
Ligurian Sea - Tyrrhenian Sea
Alessandro Volta
Raphael
35. Which river is the longest?
Po
Stromboli
Giuseppe Garibaldi
Galileo
36. Which volcano is located south of Naples?
Bernini
Capri - Ischia
Vesuvius
Italian
37. Who composed the Barber of Seville and William Tell?
Bernini
Etna
Cavour
Rossini
38. Who is the author of the Divine Comedy and the father of the Italian language?
Dante
Italian
'il bel paese'
Island of Stromboli
39. The majority of Italians are ____ _____. (religion)
Raphael
Cavour
Dante
Roman Catholics
40. Which seas are to the west?
Ligurian Sea - Tyrrhenian Sea
Ionian Sea - Mediterranean Sea
Sardinia
La Befana
41. Who is the physicist who escaped to the US and helped develop the atomic and hydrogen bombs?
Lorenzo Ghiberti
The Alps
Enrico Fermi
Austria - France - Slovenia - Switzerland
42. Who is the greatest opera composer?
Sicily
Boccaccio
'il bel paese'
Giuseppe Verdi
43. Approximately twice the size of which US state?
Florida
Victor Emmanuel II of Piedmont
Boccaccio
Sicily
44. Where is mt Stromboli located?
Galileo
Donatello
Roman Catholics
Island of Stromboli
45. Who painted The Birth of Venus?
independent democratic republic (Repubblica Italiana)
Botticelli
Mediterranean Sea
Brunelleschi
46. What is the name of the old which who brings gifts to children on the night of January 6th?
independent democratic republic (Repubblica Italiana)
Marco Polo
La Befana
Roman Catholics
47. Which four countries touch Italy? (Alphabetical)
Italian
soccer - il calcio
Austria - France - Slovenia - Switzerland
Rossini
48. Who wrote Madama Butterfly?
Antonio Vivaldi
Giacomo Puccini
Mont Blanc
Donatello
49. How do you say 'coal' in Italian?
South of Naples
Donatello
Carbone
Dante
50. Who was the brain ('il cervello') of the Italian independence movement and the King of Piedmont?
Cavour
Etna
Sicily
Minister of Education