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