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