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