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Italian Culture And Geography
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1. Which island is shaped like a triangle and lies just off the toe of the Italian boot?
Tiber
Sicily
Victor Emmanuel II of Piedmont
Antonio Vivaldi
2. Italy is generally called '___ ___'. (refering to climate)
Po
Marconi
Sunny Italy
Brunelleschi
3. Who wrote Madama Butterfly?
Lateran Treaty of 1929
Leonardo da Vinci
Giacomo Puccini
Galileo
4. Who was the leader of the Italian independence movement?
Machiavelli
Antonio Vivaldi
Roman Catholics
Giuseppe Mazzini
5. The majority of Italians are ____ _____. (religion)
Vesuvius
Alessandro Volta
Roman Catholics
Victor Emmanuel II of Piedmont
6. Which river flows through Rome?
Arno
Michelangelo
Italian
Tiber
7. Who developed wireless telegraphy?
Marconi
Machiavelli
Lorenzo Ghiberti
Marco Polo
8. How do you say 'coal' in Italian?
'il bel paese'
Carbone
Bernini
Machiavelli
9. Who is called 'la spada' and lead the Red shirts?
Botticelli
Galileo
Giuseppe Garibaldi
'il bel paese'
10. Who sculpted La Pieta and David and painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel?
soccer - il calcio
Michelangelo
Roman Catholics
The Alps
11. What is the official language of Italy?
The Alps
Italian
John Cabot
Christopher Columbus
12. What is the name of the old which who brings gifts to children on the night of January 6th?
The Apennines
Etna
Tiber
La Befana
13. Which treaty formed the Vatican City
Lorenzo Ghiberti
Lateran Treaty of 1929
'il bel paese'
Giuseppe Verdi
14. Which island is very mountainous and is rich in livestock?
Mont Blanc
Ionian Sea - Mediterranean Sea
Sardinia
Victor Emmanuel II of Piedmont
15. How do you say 'the awakening' in Italian?
Marco Polo
Florida
Risorgimento
Sunny Italy
16. Who traveled across the Atlantic Ocean and discovered the east coast of present-day United States?
Italian
Alessandro Volta
John Cabot
Lateran Treaty of 1929
17. Which is the second longest river that flows through Verona?
Po
Carbone
Risorgimento
Adige
18. What is the highest point in Italy?
Roman Catholics
Galileo
Austria - France - Slovenia - Switzerland
Mont Blanc
19. Who was the father of modern political science and wrote Il Principe (The Prince)?
Risorgimento
Carbone
Christopher Columbus
Machiavelli
20. Who is the most famous Italian tenor?
Po
Caruso
Garda
Botticelli
21. Where is mt Etna located?
Giuseppe Garibaldi
Eastern Sicily
Romance
Lateran Treaty of 1929
22. Which volcano is located in eastern Sicily?
Etna
Carbone
Marco Polo
'il bel paese'
23. What political party is in power?
Sunny Italy
South of Naples
Christian Democratic Party
Luigi Pirandello
24. Which painter note for his idealized and tranquil madonnas and portraits painted The School of Athens - Alba Madonna - and the Transfiguration of Christ?
Raphael
Cavour
Mediterranean Sea
South of Naples
25. Who is the greatest opera composer?
Giuseppe Verdi
Eastern Sicily
Romance
Marconi
26. Who sculpted the Gates of Paradise which are the bronze doors of the baptistery of the Duomo in Florence?
Lorenzo Ghiberti
Sunny Italy
Carbone
Capri - Ischia
27. Who is the greatest conductor of all time?
Po
Minister of Education
Arturo Toscanini
Marco Polo
28. Who is the greatest artist - scientist - and inventor of all time?
Leonardo da Vinci
The Apennines
independent democratic republic (Repubblica Italiana)
John Cabot
29. Who composed the Four Seasons?
Enrico Fermi
Antonio Vivaldi
Roman Catholics
Capri - Ischia
30. Who was the first king of Italy?
Caruso
Victor Emmanuel II of Piedmont
Alessandro Volta
Petrarca
31. Which four countries touch Italy? (Alphabetical)
soccer - il calcio
Minister of Education
Austria - France - Slovenia - Switzerland
'il bel paese'
32. Who wrote the play Six Characters in Search of an Author?
South of Naples
Luigi Pirandello
Tiber
Alessandro Volta
33. Which sea is to the east?
Machiavelli
Galileo
Adriatic Sea
Sardinia
34. Which volcano is located on the island of Stromboli?
Botticelli
Etna
Stromboli
Christopher Columbus
35. Which seas are to the south?
Boccaccio
Ionian Sea - Mediterranean Sea
Lorenzo Ghiberti
Titian
36. The ___ _ ___ is in charge of all education.
independent democratic republic (Repubblica Italiana)
Giuseppe Garibaldi
Minister of Education
Romance
37. Nickname for Italy
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38. Which mountain range forms the 'backbone'?
Raphael
Christian Democratic Party
The Apennines
Adriatic Sea
39. Which river flows through Florence and Pisa?
Brunelleschi
Italian
Arno
Minister of Education
40. Which mountain range forms a natural border across northern Italy?
Arno
Mont Blanc
Christopher Columbus
The Alps
41. 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?
Lateran Treaty of 1929
Alessandro Volta
Galileo
Machiavelli
42. Who 'discovered' America in 1492?
South of Naples
Christopher Columbus
Florida
Alessandro Volta
43. Who was the author of the Decameron - a collection of short stories?
John Cabot
Christopher Columbus
Boccaccio
soccer - il calcio
44. What Venetian explorer and traveler crossed central Asia and visited China - Sumatra - Ceylon - India and Persia?
Luigi Pirandello
Marco Polo
Antonio Vivaldi
Cavour
45. Italian is a ___ language.
Victor Emmanuel II of Piedmont
Marco Polo
Romance
Enrico Fermi
46. Which is Italy's largest lake?
Enrico Fermi
Alessandro Volta
Leonardo da Vinci
Garda
47. Who was the brain ('il cervello') of the Italian independence movement and the King of Piedmont?
Cavour
Sunny Italy
Austria - France - Slovenia - Switzerland
Carbone
48. Where is mt Stromboli located?
Etna
Island of Stromboli
Mussolini
Raphael
49. Which two islands are in the Bay of Naples?
Machiavelli
Donatello
Boccaccio
Capri - Ischia
50. Spans across which sea?
Mediterranean Sea
Roman Catholics
Austria - France - Slovenia - Switzerland
Christian Democratic Party