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