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