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