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