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