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