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