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Italian Culture And Geography
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Approximately twice the size of which US state?
Lateran Treaty of 1929
Giuseppe Mazzini
Florida
soccer - il calcio
2. Who sculpted David and Gattamelata?
The Apennines
Machiavelli
Donatello
Giuseppe Verdi
3. Who was the great Italian poet?
Giuseppe Verdi
Capri - Ischia
Risorgimento
Petrarca
4. Italy is generally called '___ ___'. (refering to climate)
Carbone
Sunny Italy
Brunelleschi
Tiber
5. Who sculpted La Pieta and David and painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel?
Michelangelo
Vesuvius
Dante
Island of Stromboli
6. Which river flows through Florence and Pisa?
Dante
Arno
Carbone
Marco Polo
7. Which volcano is located south of Naples?
Vesuvius
Tiber
Titian
Dante
8. Who traveled across the Atlantic Ocean and discovered the east coast of present-day United States?
Donatello
Arturo Toscanini
John Cabot
Garda
9. Which volcano is located on the island of Stromboli?
Galileo
Stromboli
Giacomo Puccini
soccer - il calcio
10. Which seas are to the west?
Ligurian Sea - Tyrrhenian Sea
Arturo Toscanini
Michelangelo
Boccaccio
11. Italy is a ___ ___ ___. (type of government)
independent democratic republic (Repubblica Italiana)
Bernini
Garda
Rossini
12. What is the most popular sport in Italy?
soccer - il calcio
Arturo Toscanini
The Alps
Giuseppe Verdi
13. Who was the first king of Italy?
Donatello
Florida
Victor Emmanuel II of Piedmont
Garda
14. Who invented the electric battery and electric condenser?
Christopher Columbus
Lateran Treaty of 1929
Etna
Alessandro Volta
15. Who is the greatest conductor of all time?
Etna
Island of Stromboli
Arturo Toscanini
Cavour
16. Who was the leading sculptor of the Baroque period who was designed Saint Peters Square in the Vatican city?
Marconi
Po
Bernini
Christopher Columbus
17. Who composed the Barber of Seville and William Tell?
Po
Eastern Sicily
John Cabot
Rossini
18. Which is Italy's largest lake?
independent democratic republic (Repubblica Italiana)
Mont Blanc
Christopher Columbus
Garda
19. Which volcano is located in eastern Sicily?
Adriatic Sea
Risorgimento
Etna
Rossini
20. Spans across which sea?
Mussolini
Romance
Mediterranean Sea
Donatello
21. Who composed the Four Seasons?
Eastern Sicily
Antonio Vivaldi
Mussolini
Petrarca
22. Which island is very mountainous and is rich in livestock?
Garda
Marco Polo
Etna
Sardinia
23. What is the name of the old which who brings gifts to children on the night of January 6th?
La Befana
Marco Polo
Ionian Sea - Mediterranean Sea
Adige
24. The majority of Italians are ____ _____. (religion)
Rossini
Roman Catholics
Giacomo Puccini
Marco Polo
25. The ___ _ ___ is in charge of all education.
Minister of Education
The Alps
Capri - Ischia
Romance
26. 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?
Adriatic Sea
Galileo
Petrarca
Raphael
27. Which sea is to the east?
Adriatic Sea
Machiavelli
Michelangelo
South of Naples
28. Which mountain range forms a natural border across northern Italy?
Tiber
Giuseppe Mazzini
Carbone
The Alps
29. Nickname for Italy
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30. Who is the greatest artist - scientist - and inventor of all time?
Luigi Pirandello
Leonardo da Vinci
Raphael
John Cabot
31. Which two islands are in the Bay of Naples?
Marconi
Vesuvius
Capri - Ischia
Caruso
32. Where is mt Etna located?
Risorgimento
'il bel paese'
South of Naples
Eastern Sicily
33. Who 'discovered' America in 1492?
Caruso
Ionian Sea - Mediterranean Sea
Christopher Columbus
Bernini
34. Who wrote Madama Butterfly?
Adriatic Sea
Giacomo Puccini
Roman Catholics
Stromboli
35. How do you say 'coal' in Italian?
Dante
Brunelleschi
Carbone
Petrarca
36. What is the highest point in Italy?
Donatello
Mont Blanc
Adige
Po
37. Who wrote the play Six Characters in Search of an Author?
Po
Donatello
Luigi Pirandello
Etna
38. What is the official language of Italy?
The Alps
Italian
Island of Stromboli
Leonardo da Vinci
39. Which painter note for his idealized and tranquil madonnas and portraits painted The School of Athens - Alba Madonna - and the Transfiguration of Christ?
Raphael
Roman Catholics
Petrarca
Caruso
40. Where is mt Stromboli located?
Carbone
Donatello
Island of Stromboli
Adige
41. Which four countries touch Italy? (Alphabetical)
Austria - France - Slovenia - Switzerland
La Befana
John Cabot
Bernini
42. Which river flows through Rome?
Tiber
Island of Stromboli
Sardinia
Etna
43. Who painted The Birth of Venus?
Carbone
Botticelli
Sunny Italy
Sardinia
44. Which island is shaped like a triangle and lies just off the toe of the Italian boot?
Sicily
Christopher Columbus
Galileo
Austria - France - Slovenia - Switzerland
45. Which is the second longest river that flows through Verona?
independent democratic republic (Repubblica Italiana)
Luigi Pirandello
Arturo Toscanini
Adige
46. Who is the greatest opera composer?
Austria - France - Slovenia - Switzerland
'il bel paese'
The Alps
Giuseppe Verdi
47. Who designed the dome of the Duomo in Florence?
Brunelleschi
Dante
Leonardo da Vinci
Marconi
48. Italian is a ___ language.
Adige
Botticelli
Giuseppe Garibaldi
Romance
49. Who lead the Fascist movement?
Arturo Toscanini
Donatello
Mussolini
Boccaccio
50. Who sculpted the Gates of Paradise which are the bronze doors of the baptistery of the Duomo in Florence?
Dante
'il bel paese'
Lorenzo Ghiberti
Sardinia