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Italian Culture And Geography
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1. Who composed the Four Seasons?
Italian
Antonio Vivaldi
The Alps
Minister of Education
2. Which volcano is located south of Naples?
Cavour
Donatello
Sunny Italy
Vesuvius
3. Who was the author of the Decameron - a collection of short stories?
Boccaccio
Island of Stromboli
Sardinia
Giuseppe Garibaldi
4. Italy is a ___ ___ ___. (type of government)
Vesuvius
Adige
Lorenzo Ghiberti
independent democratic republic (Repubblica Italiana)
5. Which river is the longest?
Donatello
Adriatic Sea
Capri - Ischia
Po
6. Which mountain range forms the 'backbone'?
Alessandro Volta
Raphael
The Apennines
Risorgimento
7. Who 'discovered' America in 1492?
'il bel paese'
Enrico Fermi
Mussolini
Christopher Columbus
8. Which seas are to the south?
Florida
Bernini
Stromboli
Ionian Sea - Mediterranean Sea
9. Which volcano is located in eastern Sicily?
Florida
Alessandro Volta
Etna
John Cabot
10. Who composed the Barber of Seville and William Tell?
Giacomo Puccini
Rossini
Italian
South of Naples
11. Who was the great Italian poet?
Cavour
Marco Polo
Petrarca
Tiber
12. Where is mt Etna located?
Enrico Fermi
Tiber
Giuseppe Verdi
Eastern Sicily
13. What is the official language of Italy?
La Befana
Italian
Mussolini
Galileo
14. Who is the author of the Divine Comedy and the father of the Italian language?
Mont Blanc
Dante
Victor Emmanuel II of Piedmont
Luigi Pirandello
15. Which island is very mountainous and is rich in livestock?
Sardinia
Giuseppe Garibaldi
Machiavelli
Roman Catholics
16. Which four countries touch Italy? (Alphabetical)
Romance
Vesuvius
Austria - France - Slovenia - Switzerland
Carbone
17. Italian is a ___ language.
Romance
Sicily
Italian
Christopher Columbus
18. Who is the greatest opera composer?
Minister of Education
soccer - il calcio
Vesuvius
Giuseppe Verdi
19. Who sculpted the Gates of Paradise which are the bronze doors of the baptistery of the Duomo in Florence?
Lorenzo Ghiberti
Florida
Carbone
Arturo Toscanini
20. Who was the leading sculptor of the Baroque period who was designed Saint Peters Square in the Vatican city?
Marconi
Bernini
Austria - France - Slovenia - Switzerland
Carbone
21. Who is called 'la spada' and lead the Red shirts?
Giuseppe Garibaldi
Eastern Sicily
Arturo Toscanini
Giacomo Puccini
22. Spans across which sea?
Island of Stromboli
Roman Catholics
Mediterranean Sea
Romance
23. Who was the first king of Italy?
Marconi
Adriatic Sea
Victor Emmanuel II of Piedmont
Arturo Toscanini
24. Nickname for Italy
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25. What is the name of the old which who brings gifts to children on the night of January 6th?
Arno
La Befana
Minister of Education
Raphael
26. Which painter note for his idealized and tranquil madonnas and portraits painted The School of Athens - Alba Madonna - and the Transfiguration of Christ?
Raphael
Arturo Toscanini
Island of Stromboli
Adriatic Sea
27. Which volcano is located on the island of Stromboli?
Lorenzo Ghiberti
Christian Democratic Party
Tiber
Stromboli
28. Who painted The Birth of Venus?
Botticelli
independent democratic republic (Repubblica Italiana)
Romance
Donatello
29. Approximately twice the size of which US state?
Florida
Leonardo da Vinci
Giuseppe Mazzini
Etna
30. Who is the greatest Venetian painter of the Renaissance who painted the Rape of Europa?
Titian
Arno
Florida
Vesuvius
31. Where is mt Stromboli located?
Island of Stromboli
Sunny Italy
Stromboli
Victor Emmanuel II of Piedmont
32. Which two islands are in the Bay of Naples?
Giuseppe Garibaldi
Caruso
Roman Catholics
Capri - Ischia
33. Which is Italy's largest lake?
Mont Blanc
Garda
Adriatic Sea
The Alps
34. How do you say 'coal' in Italian?
Giuseppe Mazzini
Raphael
Christian Democratic Party
Carbone
35. Who is the most famous Italian tenor?
Eastern Sicily
Austria - France - Slovenia - Switzerland
Caruso
Etna
36. How do you say 'the awakening' in Italian?
Luigi Pirandello
independent democratic republic (Repubblica Italiana)
Po
Risorgimento
37. What Venetian explorer and traveler crossed central Asia and visited China - Sumatra - Ceylon - India and Persia?
Machiavelli
Eastern Sicily
Adige
Marco Polo
38. Which island is shaped like a triangle and lies just off the toe of the Italian boot?
Sicily
Botticelli
Donatello
The Alps
39. What is the most popular sport in Italy?
soccer - il calcio
Marco Polo
Arturo Toscanini
Donatello
40. Who lead the Fascist movement?
Mediterranean Sea
Risorgimento
Mussolini
Stromboli
41. Who developed wireless telegraphy?
Boccaccio
Sardinia
Marconi
Arturo Toscanini
42. Which mountain range forms a natural border across northern Italy?
Vesuvius
Stromboli
The Alps
Sicily
43. Who wrote the play Six Characters in Search of an Author?
The Apennines
Minister of Education
Boccaccio
Luigi Pirandello
44. Italy is generally called '___ ___'. (refering to climate)
Alessandro Volta
Raphael
Botticelli
Sunny Italy
45. The ___ _ ___ is in charge of all education.
Island of Stromboli
Lateran Treaty of 1929
independent democratic republic (Repubblica Italiana)
Minister of Education
46. Which treaty formed the Vatican City
Austria - France - Slovenia - Switzerland
Lateran Treaty of 1929
The Apennines
soccer - il calcio
47. Who invented the electric battery and electric condenser?
Alessandro Volta
Victor Emmanuel II of Piedmont
Tiber
The Alps
48. Who is the physicist who escaped to the US and helped develop the atomic and hydrogen bombs?
Donatello
Titian
Victor Emmanuel II of Piedmont
Enrico Fermi
49. What is the highest point in Italy?
Tiber
Stromboli
Sunny Italy
Mont Blanc
50. Who sculpted La Pieta and David and painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel?
Vesuvius
Machiavelli
Michelangelo
Arturo Toscanini
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