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Italian Culture And Geography
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1. Which treaty formed the Vatican City
Lateran Treaty of 1929
Giacomo Puccini
Christopher Columbus
Florida
2. Which two islands are in the Bay of Naples?
Capri - Ischia
Tiber
Garda
Christian Democratic Party
3. The ___ _ ___ is in charge of all education.
Minister of Education
Caruso
Ionian Sea - Mediterranean Sea
Titian
4. What is the most popular sport in Italy?
Sardinia
soccer - il calcio
Minister of Education
Tiber
5. Who was the great Italian poet?
Sunny Italy
Romance
Lorenzo Ghiberti
Petrarca
6. Which volcano is located in eastern Sicily?
Boccaccio
Mussolini
Machiavelli
Etna
7. What is the highest point in Italy?
Mont Blanc
Minister of Education
Romance
Christopher Columbus
8. Nickname for Italy
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9. What is the name of the old which who brings gifts to children on the night of January 6th?
Raphael
Mediterranean Sea
La Befana
Sunny Italy
10. Which mountain range forms the 'backbone'?
Arturo Toscanini
Cavour
Tiber
The Apennines
11. Who composed the Barber of Seville and William Tell?
Rossini
Adige
John Cabot
Arturo Toscanini
12. Italy is generally called '___ ___'. (refering to climate)
Brunelleschi
Romance
Giuseppe Verdi
Sunny Italy
13. Who is the greatest conductor of all time?
Arturo Toscanini
Enrico Fermi
Giacomo Puccini
Austria - France - Slovenia - Switzerland
14. Which painter note for his idealized and tranquil madonnas and portraits painted The School of Athens - Alba Madonna - and the Transfiguration of Christ?
Raphael
Stromboli
La Befana
Minister of Education
15. Who 'discovered' America in 1492?
The Alps
La Befana
Christopher Columbus
Austria - France - Slovenia - Switzerland
16. Which river is the longest?
Po
Galileo
Donatello
The Alps
17. Who invented the electric battery and electric condenser?
Christian Democratic Party
Marconi
Risorgimento
Alessandro Volta
18. Which river flows through Florence and Pisa?
Arno
Adriatic Sea
soccer - il calcio
independent democratic republic (Repubblica Italiana)
19. Who sculpted David and Gattamelata?
Leonardo da Vinci
The Alps
Donatello
The Apennines
20. Who was the first king of Italy?
Adige
The Alps
Victor Emmanuel II of Piedmont
Caruso
21. Approximately twice the size of which US state?
Florida
Michelangelo
Sunny Italy
Christopher Columbus
22. Italy is a ___ ___ ___. (type of government)
Dante
independent democratic republic (Repubblica Italiana)
Machiavelli
Luigi Pirandello
23. Which river flows through Rome?
Marconi
Petrarca
Brunelleschi
Tiber
24. Who was the leader of the Italian independence movement?
Giuseppe Mazzini
soccer - il calcio
Cavour
Garda
25. Who wrote Madama Butterfly?
Titian
Giacomo Puccini
Enrico Fermi
Galileo
26. Who composed the Four Seasons?
Antonio Vivaldi
Brunelleschi
Sicily
Risorgimento
27. Where is mt Etna located?
Galileo
Botticelli
Austria - France - Slovenia - Switzerland
Eastern Sicily
28. Which volcano is located south of Naples?
Vesuvius
La Befana
Adige
Italian
29. What Venetian explorer and traveler crossed central Asia and visited China - Sumatra - Ceylon - India and Persia?
Adriatic Sea
Luigi Pirandello
Giacomo Puccini
Marco Polo
30. Which mountain range forms a natural border across northern Italy?
The Alps
Tiber
Mediterranean Sea
Stromboli
31. Who is the greatest opera composer?
Island of Stromboli
Giuseppe Verdi
Giuseppe Garibaldi
Sicily
32. Who wrote the play Six Characters in Search of an Author?
Mont Blanc
Luigi Pirandello
soccer - il calcio
Arturo Toscanini
33. Who is called 'la spada' and lead the Red shirts?
Giuseppe Garibaldi
Caruso
Austria - France - Slovenia - Switzerland
Lateran Treaty of 1929
34. How do you say 'coal' in Italian?
Carbone
Galileo
Bernini
Lorenzo Ghiberti
35. Spans across which sea?
Giuseppe Garibaldi
Mediterranean Sea
Florida
Adige
36. Who is the most famous Italian tenor?
Caruso
Petrarca
Minister of Education
Island of Stromboli
37. Who is the author of the Divine Comedy and the father of the Italian language?
Tiber
Dante
Galileo
The Alps
38. Who was the father of modern political science and wrote Il Principe (The Prince)?
Luigi Pirandello
Machiavelli
Michelangelo
Giuseppe Verdi
39. 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?
Victor Emmanuel II of Piedmont
Risorgimento
Galileo
Capri - Ischia
40. Who designed the dome of the Duomo in Florence?
Raphael
Risorgimento
Brunelleschi
Adriatic Sea
41. Who developed wireless telegraphy?
Raphael
Arturo Toscanini
Minister of Education
Marconi
42. Where is mt Vesuvius located?
Po
Dante
Rossini
South of Naples
43. Which island is very mountainous and is rich in livestock?
Donatello
Sunny Italy
Christopher Columbus
Sardinia
44. Which seas are to the south?
Ionian Sea - Mediterranean Sea
Michelangelo
Stromboli
Titian
45. Who was the brain ('il cervello') of the Italian independence movement and the King of Piedmont?
Tiber
Galileo
Risorgimento
Cavour
46. The majority of Italians are ____ _____. (religion)
Petrarca
The Alps
Roman Catholics
Etna
47. What is the official language of Italy?
Risorgimento
Italian
Stromboli
Michelangelo
48. Where is mt Stromboli located?
Titian
Island of Stromboli
Giuseppe Garibaldi
Marco Polo
49. Who painted The Birth of Venus?
Victor Emmanuel II of Piedmont
Giuseppe Verdi
Enrico Fermi
Botticelli
50. Which is Italy's largest lake?
Island of Stromboli
John Cabot
Alessandro Volta
Garda