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