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