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