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Italian Culture And Geography
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1. Which volcano is located in eastern Sicily?
Etna
Machiavelli
Caruso
The Alps
2. Which volcano is located south of Naples?
independent democratic republic (Repubblica Italiana)
'il bel paese'
Vesuvius
Michelangelo
3. Which mountain range forms a natural border across northern Italy?
The Alps
Adriatic Sea
'il bel paese'
Stromboli
4. Who is the greatest Venetian painter of the Renaissance who painted the Rape of Europa?
Garda
Victor Emmanuel II of Piedmont
La Befana
Titian
5. Spans across which sea?
Dante
Mont Blanc
Mediterranean Sea
soccer - il calcio
6. Nickname for Italy
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7. Italy is generally called '___ ___'. (refering to climate)
Sunny Italy
independent democratic republic (Repubblica Italiana)
Austria - France - Slovenia - Switzerland
Giacomo Puccini
8. Who composed the Barber of Seville and William Tell?
Botticelli
Cavour
Rossini
Capri - Ischia
9. Who 'discovered' America in 1492?
Christopher Columbus
Minister of Education
Petrarca
Adriatic Sea
10. What is the name of the old which who brings gifts to children on the night of January 6th?
Stromboli
La Befana
Island of Stromboli
Minister of Education
11. Approximately twice the size of which US state?
Victor Emmanuel II of Piedmont
Florida
Marco Polo
The Alps
12. Which painter note for his idealized and tranquil madonnas and portraits painted The School of Athens - Alba Madonna - and the Transfiguration of Christ?
Raphael
Botticelli
Donatello
Roman Catholics
13. Who is the greatest opera composer?
Galileo
Giacomo Puccini
Donatello
Giuseppe Verdi
14. Italian is a ___ language.
Giacomo Puccini
Romance
Cavour
Carbone
15. What Venetian explorer and traveler crossed central Asia and visited China - Sumatra - Ceylon - India and Persia?
Enrico Fermi
Alessandro Volta
Marco Polo
Mussolini
16. How do you say 'the awakening' in Italian?
Sardinia
Risorgimento
Ligurian Sea - Tyrrhenian Sea
Minister of Education
17. Who is the greatest conductor of all time?
Arturo Toscanini
Petrarca
Risorgimento
Antonio Vivaldi
18. Which is Italy's largest lake?
Titian
Garda
Mussolini
Michelangelo
19. Where is mt Vesuvius located?
La Befana
South of Naples
Romance
John Cabot
20. Who was the brain ('il cervello') of the Italian independence movement and the King of Piedmont?
Capri - Ischia
Sardinia
Donatello
Cavour
21. Which island is shaped like a triangle and lies just off the toe of the Italian boot?
Capri - Ischia
Sicily
Carbone
La Befana
22. Which mountain range forms the 'backbone'?
Boccaccio
The Apennines
Enrico Fermi
La Befana
23. Which four countries touch Italy? (Alphabetical)
Luigi Pirandello
Austria - France - Slovenia - Switzerland
Capri - Ischia
Italian
24. Where is mt Etna located?
Mont Blanc
Galileo
Eastern Sicily
Mussolini
25. Which sea is to the east?
Adriatic Sea
Victor Emmanuel II of Piedmont
Minister of Education
South of Naples
26. Italy is a ___ ___ ___. (type of government)
Victor Emmanuel II of Piedmont
independent democratic republic (Repubblica Italiana)
Sardinia
Romance
27. Who developed wireless telegraphy?
Marconi
Florida
Vesuvius
Rossini
28. 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?
Po
Galileo
Arturo Toscanini
La Befana
29. Who is called 'la spada' and lead the Red shirts?
Lorenzo Ghiberti
South of Naples
Eastern Sicily
Giuseppe Garibaldi
30. Which is the second longest river that flows through Verona?
Adige
Etna
Italian
Austria - France - Slovenia - Switzerland
31. Where is mt Stromboli located?
Dante
Island of Stromboli
Ionian Sea - Mediterranean Sea
Adige
32. Who was the author of the Decameron - a collection of short stories?
Boccaccio
Raphael
Donatello
Romance
33. Who sculpted David and Gattamelata?
Leonardo da Vinci
Donatello
John Cabot
Sunny Italy
34. What is the highest point in Italy?
Machiavelli
Tiber
Mont Blanc
South of Naples
35. Who painted The Birth of Venus?
The Alps
Botticelli
Arturo Toscanini
Cavour
36. Which island is very mountainous and is rich in livestock?
Raphael
Adriatic Sea
Sardinia
La Befana
37. Who is the author of the Divine Comedy and the father of the Italian language?
independent democratic republic (Repubblica Italiana)
Sicily
Dante
Garda
38. Who was the leader of the Italian independence movement?
Michelangelo
Adriatic Sea
Titian
Giuseppe Mazzini
39. Which river is the longest?
Arno
Po
Leonardo da Vinci
Sardinia
40. The majority of Italians are ____ _____. (religion)
Roman Catholics
La Befana
Sunny Italy
Giacomo Puccini
41. Which seas are to the south?
'il bel paese'
La Befana
Cavour
Ionian Sea - Mediterranean Sea
42. Which river flows through Florence and Pisa?
Christopher Columbus
Bernini
Arno
Boccaccio
43. Which river flows through Rome?
Rossini
Etna
South of Naples
Tiber
44. How do you say 'coal' in Italian?
Florida
'il bel paese'
South of Naples
Carbone
45. The ___ _ ___ is in charge of all education.
Minister of Education
Arturo Toscanini
Etna
Mediterranean Sea
46. Who was the first king of Italy?
Galileo
Etna
Leonardo da Vinci
Victor Emmanuel II of Piedmont
47. Who sculpted La Pieta and David and painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel?
Michelangelo
Italian
independent democratic republic (Repubblica Italiana)
Raphael
48. Which treaty formed the Vatican City
Christian Democratic Party
Lateran Treaty of 1929
Cavour
Minister of Education
49. What is the official language of Italy?
Donatello
soccer - il calcio
Arno
Italian
50. Who wrote Madama Butterfly?
Giacomo Puccini
Adige
Antonio Vivaldi
Christian Democratic Party
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