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