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