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