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