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Italian Culture And Geography
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Who is the most famous Italian tenor?
Marco Polo
Sardinia
Lateran Treaty of 1929
Caruso
2. What is the name of the old which who brings gifts to children on the night of January 6th?
Romance
Vesuvius
La Befana
Risorgimento
3. Where is mt Stromboli located?
Bernini
Carbone
Donatello
Island of Stromboli
4. What is the highest point in Italy?
Mont Blanc
Giacomo Puccini
Adriatic Sea
Italian
5. Which sea is to the east?
Mussolini
Adriatic Sea
Leonardo da Vinci
Petrarca
6. Italy is generally called '___ ___'. (refering to climate)
Sunny Italy
Giuseppe Mazzini
Rossini
Petrarca
7. Who was the first king of Italy?
Cavour
Victor Emmanuel II of Piedmont
Rossini
Raphael
8. Spans across which sea?
Mediterranean Sea
Antonio Vivaldi
Rossini
Minister of Education
9. Which four countries touch Italy? (Alphabetical)
Austria - France - Slovenia - Switzerland
Risorgimento
Raphael
Christian Democratic Party
10. The majority of Italians are ____ _____. (religion)
Galileo
Sunny Italy
Roman Catholics
Dante
11. Who invented the electric battery and electric condenser?
Po
Alessandro Volta
Sardinia
Arno
12. Who is the greatest artist - scientist - and inventor of all time?
Ligurian Sea - Tyrrhenian Sea
Leonardo da Vinci
Sicily
Giacomo Puccini
13. Who 'discovered' America in 1492?
Christopher Columbus
Rossini
Carbone
Ionian Sea - Mediterranean Sea
14. Who was the leading sculptor of the Baroque period who was designed Saint Peters Square in the Vatican city?
Machiavelli
Sardinia
'il bel paese'
Bernini
15. Who sculpted David and Gattamelata?
Risorgimento
Donatello
soccer - il calcio
Christian Democratic Party
16. The ___ _ ___ is in charge of all education.
Minister of Education
Ionian Sea - Mediterranean Sea
Lateran Treaty of 1929
Arno
17. Who lead the Fascist movement?
John Cabot
Risorgimento
Arturo Toscanini
Mussolini
18. Which volcano is located on the island of Stromboli?
Vesuvius
Cavour
Ionian Sea - Mediterranean Sea
Stromboli
19. Which painter note for his idealized and tranquil madonnas and portraits painted The School of Athens - Alba Madonna - and the Transfiguration of Christ?
Raphael
Mussolini
Vesuvius
Risorgimento
20. What Venetian explorer and traveler crossed central Asia and visited China - Sumatra - Ceylon - India and Persia?
Giuseppe Verdi
Marco Polo
Raphael
Lateran Treaty of 1929
21. Which treaty formed the Vatican City
Lateran Treaty of 1929
John Cabot
Ligurian Sea - Tyrrhenian Sea
Italian
22. Who wrote Madama Butterfly?
Giacomo Puccini
independent democratic republic (Repubblica Italiana)
Victor Emmanuel II of Piedmont
Bernini
23. Nickname for Italy
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24. Who is the greatest Venetian painter of the Renaissance who painted the Rape of Europa?
independent democratic republic (Repubblica Italiana)
Titian
Mussolini
Brunelleschi
25. Who sculpted La Pieta and David and painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel?
Ligurian Sea - Tyrrhenian Sea
Po
Michelangelo
Galileo
26. Who painted The Birth of Venus?
Botticelli
'il bel paese'
Carbone
Sunny Italy
27. Where is mt Etna located?
Eastern Sicily
Machiavelli
Etna
Boccaccio
28. Who composed the Four Seasons?
Mont Blanc
Garda
Antonio Vivaldi
Lateran Treaty of 1929
29. Which two islands are in the Bay of Naples?
Marconi
Garda
Carbone
Capri - Ischia
30. Italian is a ___ language.
Rossini
John Cabot
Romance
Raphael
31. Approximately twice the size of which US state?
Etna
independent democratic republic (Repubblica Italiana)
Florida
Lorenzo Ghiberti
32. Who is the greatest conductor of all time?
Florida
Etna
Island of Stromboli
Arturo Toscanini
33. Which river flows through Florence and Pisa?
Arno
Dante
Victor Emmanuel II of Piedmont
Alessandro Volta
34. Who was the great Italian poet?
Petrarca
Sardinia
Minister of Education
South of Naples
35. Who was the brain ('il cervello') of the Italian independence movement and the King of Piedmont?
Giuseppe Mazzini
Cavour
Mediterranean Sea
Bernini
36. Which river is the longest?
Lateran Treaty of 1929
Po
Adriatic Sea
The Alps
37. Who composed the Barber of Seville and William Tell?
John Cabot
Rossini
Eastern Sicily
'il bel paese'
38. Who is the greatest opera composer?
Dante
Petrarca
Rossini
Giuseppe Verdi
39. How do you say 'the awakening' in Italian?
Garda
Sardinia
Mont Blanc
Risorgimento
40. How do you say 'coal' in Italian?
Donatello
Arno
Christian Democratic Party
Carbone
41. 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?
Arturo Toscanini
Galileo
Ligurian Sea - Tyrrhenian Sea
La Befana
42. Who was the father of modern political science and wrote Il Principe (The Prince)?
Galileo
Machiavelli
Luigi Pirandello
The Alps
43. Which mountain range forms the 'backbone'?
The Alps
Vesuvius
Enrico Fermi
The Apennines
44. Who is the physicist who escaped to the US and helped develop the atomic and hydrogen bombs?
La Befana
Petrarca
Enrico Fermi
Raphael
45. Which is the second longest river that flows through Verona?
Victor Emmanuel II of Piedmont
Marconi
Adige
Capri - Ischia
46. Who was the leader of the Italian independence movement?
Ligurian Sea - Tyrrhenian Sea
Michelangelo
Botticelli
Giuseppe Mazzini
47. Which river flows through Rome?
Marconi
Leonardo da Vinci
The Apennines
Tiber
48. What political party is in power?
Christian Democratic Party
Giuseppe Mazzini
Antonio Vivaldi
Adriatic Sea
49. Who developed wireless telegraphy?
Risorgimento
Sicily
Marconi
Mont Blanc
50. Who designed the dome of the Duomo in Florence?
Brunelleschi
Roman Catholics
Arno
Island of Stromboli