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Italian Culture And Geography
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Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Who designed the dome of the Duomo in Florence?
Donatello
Sardinia
Brunelleschi
Marco Polo
2. Who invented the electric battery and electric condenser?
Alessandro Volta
Roman Catholics
Giuseppe Mazzini
Lorenzo Ghiberti
3. Which river flows through Florence and Pisa?
Arno
Antonio Vivaldi
Donatello
Raphael
4. Who wrote the play Six Characters in Search of an Author?
La Befana
Risorgimento
Christopher Columbus
Luigi Pirandello
5. Italian is a ___ language.
Victor Emmanuel II of Piedmont
Roman Catholics
Romance
Machiavelli
6. Who wrote Madama Butterfly?
Christian Democratic Party
Raphael
Giuseppe Verdi
Giacomo Puccini
7. Which volcano is located south of Naples?
Vesuvius
Giacomo Puccini
John Cabot
Lorenzo Ghiberti
8. Who is the greatest Venetian painter of the Renaissance who painted the Rape of Europa?
Giuseppe Mazzini
Titian
Alessandro Volta
Boccaccio
9. Who lead the Fascist movement?
Mussolini
Cavour
Adige
Etna
10. What is the name of the old which who brings gifts to children on the night of January 6th?
Giuseppe Garibaldi
La Befana
Leonardo da Vinci
soccer - il calcio
11. Italy is a ___ ___ ___. (type of government)
independent democratic republic (Repubblica Italiana)
Arno
Marco Polo
Botticelli
12. What is the most popular sport in Italy?
John Cabot
Rossini
La Befana
soccer - il calcio
13. Which island is shaped like a triangle and lies just off the toe of the Italian boot?
South of Naples
Christian Democratic Party
Giuseppe Verdi
Sicily
14. Who composed the Barber of Seville and William Tell?
Ligurian Sea - Tyrrhenian Sea
Rossini
'il bel paese'
Adriatic Sea
15. Who 'discovered' America in 1492?
Enrico Fermi
Christopher Columbus
Mussolini
Garda
16. The majority of Italians are ____ _____. (religion)
Marco Polo
Antonio Vivaldi
Sardinia
Roman Catholics
17. Which painter note for his idealized and tranquil madonnas and portraits painted The School of Athens - Alba Madonna - and the Transfiguration of Christ?
Etna
Petrarca
Island of Stromboli
Raphael
18. The ___ _ ___ is in charge of all education.
Minister of Education
Michelangelo
Luigi Pirandello
Raphael
19. Who was the leader of the Italian independence movement?
Giuseppe Mazzini
Brunelleschi
Minister of Education
Caruso
20. Which mountain range forms the 'backbone'?
Michelangelo
Enrico Fermi
Adige
The Apennines
21. Which four countries touch Italy? (Alphabetical)
Austria - France - Slovenia - Switzerland
Italian
Brunelleschi
Machiavelli
22. Who was the first king of Italy?
soccer - il calcio
Marconi
Machiavelli
Victor Emmanuel II of Piedmont
23. Who is the most famous Italian tenor?
Alessandro Volta
Caruso
Michelangelo
South of Naples
24. Who sculpted La Pieta and David and painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel?
Michelangelo
Raphael
Giacomo Puccini
Sardinia
25. Who developed wireless telegraphy?
Stromboli
Carbone
Marconi
Petrarca
26. Who is the author of the Divine Comedy and the father of the Italian language?
Raphael
Machiavelli
Po
Dante
27. Which volcano is located on the island of Stromboli?
Stromboli
Galileo
Garda
Island of Stromboli
28. Which treaty formed the Vatican City
Minister of Education
Italian
Island of Stromboli
Lateran Treaty of 1929
29. Which seas are to the west?
Garda
Machiavelli
Ligurian Sea - Tyrrhenian Sea
Rossini
30. Which river is the longest?
Po
Brunelleschi
Boccaccio
Island of Stromboli
31. Who was the leading sculptor of the Baroque period who was designed Saint Peters Square in the Vatican city?
South of Naples
Marco Polo
Bernini
Donatello
32. Where is mt Etna located?
Italian
Arturo Toscanini
Giuseppe Garibaldi
Eastern Sicily
33. What is the highest point in Italy?
Botticelli
Mont Blanc
Etna
Island of Stromboli
34. Which seas are to the south?
John Cabot
Ionian Sea - Mediterranean Sea
Botticelli
Victor Emmanuel II of Piedmont
35. Who is called 'la spada' and lead the Red shirts?
Giuseppe Garibaldi
Victor Emmanuel II of Piedmont
Leonardo da Vinci
Marconi
36. Which two islands are in the Bay of Naples?
Adriatic Sea
Galileo
Rossini
Capri - Ischia
37. Who traveled across the Atlantic Ocean and discovered the east coast of present-day United States?
The Alps
Titian
John Cabot
Christian Democratic Party
38. Who is the physicist who escaped to the US and helped develop the atomic and hydrogen bombs?
Leonardo da Vinci
Enrico Fermi
Machiavelli
Sardinia
39. Which volcano is located in eastern Sicily?
Adige
Rossini
Etna
Galileo
40. Who is the greatest conductor of all time?
Dante
Galileo
Arturo Toscanini
Giuseppe Verdi
41. Who was the great Italian poet?
Petrarca
Tiber
The Apennines
Sicily
42. Who composed the Four Seasons?
Antonio Vivaldi
Ionian Sea - Mediterranean Sea
Adriatic Sea
Giuseppe Garibaldi
43. Who was the brain ('il cervello') of the Italian independence movement and the King of Piedmont?
independent democratic republic (Repubblica Italiana)
Ligurian Sea - Tyrrhenian Sea
Cavour
Donatello
44. Spans across which sea?
Arno
Brunelleschi
Mediterranean Sea
Stromboli
45. Which is Italy's largest lake?
Risorgimento
independent democratic republic (Repubblica Italiana)
Roman Catholics
Garda
46. Where is mt Stromboli located?
John Cabot
Christian Democratic Party
Michelangelo
Island of Stromboli
47. Who painted The Birth of Venus?
Christopher Columbus
Giuseppe Verdi
Romance
Botticelli
48. What political party is in power?
Cavour
La Befana
Christian Democratic Party
Mediterranean Sea
49. Who sculpted David and Gattamelata?
The Apennines
Po
Capri - Ischia
Donatello
50. Which river flows through Rome?
Tiber
La Befana
Luigi Pirandello
Raphael