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