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