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