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