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