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