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