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