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Italian Culture And Geography

Subject : culture
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1. What political party is in power?






2. Which volcano is located south of Naples?






3. How do you say 'coal' in Italian?






4. Who was the great Italian poet?






5. Who 'discovered' America in 1492?






6. How do you say 'the awakening' in Italian?






7. Who is the greatest opera composer?






8. Who is the most famous Italian tenor?






9. What is the name of the old which who brings gifts to children on the night of January 6th?






10. Who was the father of modern political science and wrote Il Principe (The Prince)?






11. Which is the second longest river that flows through Verona?






12. Who is called 'la spada' and lead the Red shirts?






13. Nickname for Italy

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14. Which river flows through Rome?






15. Who wrote Madama Butterfly?






16. Italy is a ___ ___ ___. (type of government)






17. What Venetian explorer and traveler crossed central Asia and visited China - Sumatra - Ceylon - India and Persia?






18. Who sculpted David and Gattamelata?






19. Spans across which sea?






20. Which seas are to the west?






21. Who was the leader of the Italian independence movement?






22. Who developed wireless telegraphy?






23. Who composed the Barber of Seville and William Tell?






24. Which seas are to the south?






25. Who lead the Fascist movement?






26. Italy is generally called '___ ___'. (refering to climate)






27. Which river is the longest?






28. Which is Italy's largest lake?






29. Who is the greatest Venetian painter of the Renaissance who painted the Rape of Europa?






30. Who was the leading sculptor of the Baroque period who was designed Saint Peters Square in the Vatican city?






31. Which two islands are in the Bay of Naples?






32. Which four countries touch Italy? (Alphabetical)






33. Which volcano is located on the island of Stromboli?






34. Where is mt Etna located?






35. What is the highest point in Italy?






36. Who sculpted the Gates of Paradise which are the bronze doors of the baptistery of the Duomo in Florence?






37. Which river flows through Florence and Pisa?






38. The majority of Italians are ____ _____. (religion)






39. Which painter note for his idealized and tranquil madonnas and portraits painted The School of Athens - Alba Madonna - and the Transfiguration of Christ?






40. Who traveled across the Atlantic Ocean and discovered the east coast of present-day United States?






41. Which island is shaped like a triangle and lies just off the toe of the Italian boot?






42. Which island is very mountainous and is rich in livestock?






43. Italian is a ___ language.






44. Which volcano is located in eastern Sicily?






45. Who was the brain ('il cervello') of the Italian independence movement and the King of Piedmont?






46. Who is the physicist who escaped to the US and helped develop the atomic and hydrogen bombs?






47. Which mountain range forms the 'backbone'?






48. Who composed the Four Seasons?






49. Which treaty formed the Vatican City






50. Who invented the electric battery and electric condenser?