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Italian Culture And Geography
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Which seas are to the west?
South of Naples
Giuseppe Mazzini
Botticelli
Ligurian Sea - Tyrrhenian Sea
2. Who developed wireless telegraphy?
Marconi
Petrarca
Botticelli
Romance
3. 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?
Luigi Pirandello
Lorenzo Ghiberti
Galileo
Titian
4. Which two islands are in the Bay of Naples?
Luigi Pirandello
Caruso
Capri - Ischia
Sicily
5. Who composed the Barber of Seville and William Tell?
Christian Democratic Party
John Cabot
Rossini
Risorgimento
6. Which mountain range forms a natural border across northern Italy?
Brunelleschi
La Befana
Christopher Columbus
The Alps
7. Who sculpted the Gates of Paradise which are the bronze doors of the baptistery of the Duomo in Florence?
Lorenzo Ghiberti
John Cabot
Eastern Sicily
Etna
8. The ___ _ ___ is in charge of all education.
Giacomo Puccini
Boccaccio
Minister of Education
Tiber
9. Who is the greatest Venetian painter of the Renaissance who painted the Rape of Europa?
Christopher Columbus
Etna
Titian
Marconi
10. Who sculpted David and Gattamelata?
Donatello
Tiber
Giuseppe Garibaldi
Enrico Fermi
11. Who was the first king of Italy?
Bernini
Botticelli
Victor Emmanuel II of Piedmont
Caruso
12. Who was the great Italian poet?
John Cabot
Rossini
Petrarca
Giacomo Puccini
13. Who composed the Four Seasons?
La Befana
Antonio Vivaldi
Machiavelli
Christian Democratic Party
14. Which seas are to the south?
'il bel paese'
Tiber
Ionian Sea - Mediterranean Sea
Sardinia
15. Where is mt Etna located?
Risorgimento
Eastern Sicily
Christopher Columbus
Adriatic Sea
16. What is the official language of Italy?
Bernini
Roman Catholics
Mediterranean Sea
Italian
17. Who is the greatest opera composer?
Enrico Fermi
Italian
Botticelli
Giuseppe Verdi
18. Which river is the longest?
Po
Titian
Italian
Arno
19. Which volcano is located south of Naples?
independent democratic republic (Repubblica Italiana)
Victor Emmanuel II of Piedmont
Vesuvius
Botticelli
20. Which sea is to the east?
Austria - France - Slovenia - Switzerland
Ligurian Sea - Tyrrhenian Sea
Adriatic Sea
Antonio Vivaldi
21. Which mountain range forms the 'backbone'?
Rossini
La Befana
The Apennines
Romance
22. What political party is in power?
Lateran Treaty of 1929
Victor Emmanuel II of Piedmont
Christian Democratic Party
Mediterranean Sea
23. Which river flows through Florence and Pisa?
Galileo
Adige
Bernini
Arno
24. Spans across which sea?
Titian
Mediterranean Sea
Mont Blanc
La Befana
25. Who wrote Madama Butterfly?
La Befana
Dante
Giacomo Puccini
Titian
26. Who sculpted La Pieta and David and painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel?
Capri - Ischia
Michelangelo
Marco Polo
Tiber
27. Who is the greatest conductor of all time?
Eastern Sicily
Arturo Toscanini
Romance
Brunelleschi
28. Which treaty formed the Vatican City
Lateran Treaty of 1929
independent democratic republic (Repubblica Italiana)
Alessandro Volta
Rossini
29. Which is Italy's largest lake?
Etna
Dante
Garda
Capri - Ischia
30. Italy is generally called '___ ___'. (refering to climate)
Dante
Marco Polo
Sunny Italy
Petrarca
31. Who was the leading sculptor of the Baroque period who was designed Saint Peters Square in the Vatican city?
Brunelleschi
Titian
Tiber
Bernini
32. Who 'discovered' America in 1492?
Christopher Columbus
Giuseppe Mazzini
South of Naples
Ionian Sea - Mediterranean Sea
33. What is the name of the old which who brings gifts to children on the night of January 6th?
La Befana
Mussolini
Tiber
Alessandro Volta
34. Who is the most famous Italian tenor?
Galileo
Sunny Italy
Stromboli
Caruso
35. What Venetian explorer and traveler crossed central Asia and visited China - Sumatra - Ceylon - India and Persia?
Sicily
Minister of Education
Brunelleschi
Marco Polo
36. Who was the leader of the Italian independence movement?
Giuseppe Mazzini
Rossini
The Alps
Titian
37. Who is the greatest artist - scientist - and inventor of all time?
Petrarca
Leonardo da Vinci
Rossini
Christopher Columbus
38. How do you say 'the awakening' in Italian?
Risorgimento
Rossini
Po
Vesuvius
39. 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
Sardinia
Raphael
John Cabot
40. Who was the author of the Decameron - a collection of short stories?
South of Naples
'il bel paese'
Alessandro Volta
Boccaccio
41. Where is mt Vesuvius located?
South of Naples
Michelangelo
Brunelleschi
Cavour
42. Who wrote the play Six Characters in Search of an Author?
Luigi Pirandello
Donatello
Petrarca
Vesuvius
43. Approximately twice the size of which US state?
Tiber
Garda
independent democratic republic (Repubblica Italiana)
Florida
44. Who lead the Fascist movement?
South of Naples
Raphael
Mussolini
John Cabot
45. Italy is a ___ ___ ___. (type of government)
independent democratic republic (Repubblica Italiana)
Arno
Christopher Columbus
Machiavelli
46. Where is mt Stromboli located?
Island of Stromboli
'il bel paese'
The Alps
Tiber
47. Which island is very mountainous and is rich in livestock?
Christian Democratic Party
Sardinia
Romance
The Apennines
48. What is the most popular sport in Italy?
Roman Catholics
soccer - il calcio
Boccaccio
Lorenzo Ghiberti
49. Who invented the electric battery and electric condenser?
Alessandro Volta
John Cabot
Etna
Mont Blanc
50. Which is the second longest river that flows through Verona?
Adige
Sardinia
Alessandro Volta
Brunelleschi