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