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