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