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