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Italian Culture And Geography
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1. Who was the leading sculptor of the Baroque period who was designed Saint Peters Square in the Vatican city?
Bernini
Raphael
Po
Donatello
2. Which painter note for his idealized and tranquil madonnas and portraits painted The School of Athens - Alba Madonna - and the Transfiguration of Christ?
South of Naples
Roman Catholics
Raphael
Giacomo Puccini
3. The ___ _ ___ is in charge of all education.
Galileo
Roman Catholics
Mont Blanc
Minister of Education
4. Which is the second longest river that flows through Verona?
Adige
Mont Blanc
The Alps
Risorgimento
5. Who was the father of modern political science and wrote Il Principe (The Prince)?
Machiavelli
Giuseppe Mazzini
Risorgimento
Austria - France - Slovenia - Switzerland
6. Who 'discovered' America in 1492?
Donatello
Garda
Sicily
Christopher Columbus
7. Who was the first king of Italy?
Galileo
Victor Emmanuel II of Piedmont
independent democratic republic (Repubblica Italiana)
Brunelleschi
8. Who sculpted the Gates of Paradise which are the bronze doors of the baptistery of the Duomo in Florence?
Petrarca
Christian Democratic Party
Mont Blanc
Lorenzo Ghiberti
9. Who designed the dome of the Duomo in Florence?
Ionian Sea - Mediterranean Sea
Brunelleschi
Victor Emmanuel II of Piedmont
Ligurian Sea - Tyrrhenian Sea
10. What is the official language of Italy?
Brunelleschi
Risorgimento
La Befana
Italian
11. Who composed the Barber of Seville and William Tell?
Adige
Romance
independent democratic republic (Repubblica Italiana)
Rossini
12. Which is Italy's largest lake?
Etna
Victor Emmanuel II of Piedmont
soccer - il calcio
Garda
13. Where is mt Vesuvius located?
Giuseppe Garibaldi
South of Naples
The Alps
Titian
14. 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
Marconi
Machiavelli
Sicily
15. Which four countries touch Italy? (Alphabetical)
Sardinia
La Befana
Austria - France - Slovenia - Switzerland
Brunelleschi
16. Who is the greatest conductor of all time?
Po
Luigi Pirandello
Arturo Toscanini
Sicily
17. Where is mt Stromboli located?
Petrarca
Island of Stromboli
Garda
Adriatic Sea
18. What is the name of the old which who brings gifts to children on the night of January 6th?
Sicily
Brunelleschi
La Befana
Marco Polo
19. Who wrote Madama Butterfly?
Giacomo Puccini
Arno
Donatello
The Apennines
20. Where is mt Etna located?
Marco Polo
Eastern Sicily
Island of Stromboli
Victor Emmanuel II of Piedmont
21. Which river flows through Florence and Pisa?
Italian
Cavour
Bernini
Arno
22. Which seas are to the south?
Ionian Sea - Mediterranean Sea
Christopher Columbus
Arno
South of Naples
23. Who sculpted David and Gattamelata?
Marco Polo
Donatello
Giuseppe Mazzini
Mussolini
24. Which volcano is located in eastern Sicily?
Etna
Giuseppe Verdi
soccer - il calcio
Cavour
25. What is the highest point in Italy?
Lorenzo Ghiberti
Romance
Mont Blanc
Ionian Sea - Mediterranean Sea
26. Who is the physicist who escaped to the US and helped develop the atomic and hydrogen bombs?
Petrarca
Botticelli
Enrico Fermi
Brunelleschi
27. Who is the greatest Venetian painter of the Renaissance who painted the Rape of Europa?
Roman Catholics
Titian
Vesuvius
Stromboli
28. Which island is shaped like a triangle and lies just off the toe of the Italian boot?
Sardinia
Tiber
Cavour
Sicily
29. Who is the author of the Divine Comedy and the father of the Italian language?
Dante
John Cabot
Mediterranean Sea
Cavour
30. What political party is in power?
Caruso
Eastern Sicily
Florida
Christian Democratic Party
31. Italian is a ___ language.
Florida
Romance
Arno
The Alps
32. Nickname for Italy
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33. Who traveled across the Atlantic Ocean and discovered the east coast of present-day United States?
John Cabot
Risorgimento
Mussolini
Ionian Sea - Mediterranean Sea
34. What is the most popular sport in Italy?
Lateran Treaty of 1929
Arturo Toscanini
soccer - il calcio
Adriatic Sea
35. Which mountain range forms a natural border across northern Italy?
Capri - Ischia
The Alps
Sicily
Michelangelo
36. Who is the most famous Italian tenor?
Donatello
Caruso
Luigi Pirandello
independent democratic republic (Repubblica Italiana)
37. Who painted The Birth of Venus?
Botticelli
Ionian Sea - Mediterranean Sea
John Cabot
Michelangelo
38. The majority of Italians are ____ _____. (religion)
Po
Michelangelo
Roman Catholics
Luigi Pirandello
39. Who is called 'la spada' and lead the Red shirts?
Giuseppe Garibaldi
The Apennines
independent democratic republic (Repubblica Italiana)
Dante
40. Which mountain range forms the 'backbone'?
Minister of Education
The Apennines
Etna
Titian
41. Which volcano is located south of Naples?
Sunny Italy
Vesuvius
Ligurian Sea - Tyrrhenian Sea
Risorgimento
42. Which river is the longest?
Po
Bernini
La Befana
Garda
43. Which island is very mountainous and is rich in livestock?
Adige
Boccaccio
Giuseppe Garibaldi
Sardinia
44. Who sculpted La Pieta and David and painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel?
Christopher Columbus
Tiber
Michelangelo
Botticelli
45. Spans across which sea?
The Apennines
Mediterranean Sea
Petrarca
Austria - France - Slovenia - Switzerland
46. Who was the leader of the Italian independence movement?
Sardinia
Rossini
Galileo
Giuseppe Mazzini
47. Which volcano is located on the island of Stromboli?
Giacomo Puccini
Eastern Sicily
Michelangelo
Stromboli
48. Who wrote the play Six Characters in Search of an Author?
Luigi Pirandello
Galileo
Sicily
Rossini
49. What Venetian explorer and traveler crossed central Asia and visited China - Sumatra - Ceylon - India and Persia?
Vesuvius
Christian Democratic Party
Eastern Sicily
Marco Polo
50. How do you say 'coal' in Italian?
Caruso
Brunelleschi
independent democratic republic (Repubblica Italiana)
Carbone