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Italian Culture And Geography
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culture
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Who was the author of the Decameron - a collection of short stories?
'il bel paese'
Giuseppe Verdi
Boccaccio
Ionian Sea - Mediterranean Sea
2. Who is the greatest conductor of all time?
La Befana
Arturo Toscanini
Romance
Mont Blanc
3. Which mountain range forms the 'backbone'?
Stromboli
Donatello
The Apennines
Arno
4. Who wrote the play Six Characters in Search of an Author?
Risorgimento
Brunelleschi
Romance
Luigi Pirandello
5. Italian is a ___ language.
independent democratic republic (Repubblica Italiana)
Romance
Victor Emmanuel II of Piedmont
Donatello
6. Who was the leading sculptor of the Baroque period who was designed Saint Peters Square in the Vatican city?
Bernini
Lateran Treaty of 1929
'il bel paese'
Tiber
7. Which volcano is located in eastern Sicily?
Giuseppe Garibaldi
Etna
Galileo
Mont Blanc
8. Which island is shaped like a triangle and lies just off the toe of the Italian boot?
Vesuvius
Machiavelli
Italian
Sicily
9. What is the most popular sport in Italy?
Christian Democratic Party
Mussolini
Island of Stromboli
soccer - il calcio
10. What is the name of the old which who brings gifts to children on the night of January 6th?
Giuseppe Verdi
'il bel paese'
La Befana
Arno
11. Which treaty formed the Vatican City
Enrico Fermi
Florida
Leonardo da Vinci
Lateran Treaty of 1929
12. Spans across which sea?
Antonio Vivaldi
Caruso
Mediterranean Sea
Christopher Columbus
13. Who 'discovered' America in 1492?
The Apennines
Dante
Christopher Columbus
The Alps
14. Which volcano is located on the island of Stromboli?
Galileo
Stromboli
Giuseppe Garibaldi
Eastern Sicily
15. What Venetian explorer and traveler crossed central Asia and visited China - Sumatra - Ceylon - India and Persia?
Marco Polo
Arno
Mont Blanc
Titian
16. Who is the most famous Italian tenor?
Adriatic Sea
Carbone
Giuseppe Garibaldi
Caruso
17. Who was the great Italian poet?
Galileo
Petrarca
Christopher Columbus
Giuseppe Garibaldi
18. Which river is the longest?
Giuseppe Verdi
Enrico Fermi
Petrarca
Po
19. Which painter note for his idealized and tranquil madonnas and portraits painted The School of Athens - Alba Madonna - and the Transfiguration of Christ?
Raphael
Po
Mussolini
Giuseppe Verdi
20. Which two islands are in the Bay of Naples?
Giuseppe Mazzini
Ionian Sea - Mediterranean Sea
Capri - Ischia
Christian Democratic Party
21. Who traveled across the Atlantic Ocean and discovered the east coast of present-day United States?
Machiavelli
John Cabot
Luigi Pirandello
La Befana
22. Which seas are to the south?
Ionian Sea - Mediterranean Sea
Sardinia
Romance
Mont Blanc
23. Who was the first king of Italy?
Carbone
Arno
Victor Emmanuel II of Piedmont
Christian Democratic Party
24. What is the highest point in Italy?
Enrico Fermi
Mont Blanc
Brunelleschi
Arturo Toscanini
25. Where is mt Stromboli located?
'il bel paese'
Island of Stromboli
Giuseppe Garibaldi
John Cabot
26. Who sculpted David and Gattamelata?
The Alps
Po
Michelangelo
Donatello
27. 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?
Galileo
Mussolini
The Alps
John Cabot
28. Which volcano is located south of Naples?
The Apennines
Vesuvius
Ionian Sea - Mediterranean Sea
Mussolini
29. Who developed wireless telegraphy?
'il bel paese'
John Cabot
Marconi
Arno
30. Approximately twice the size of which US state?
Boccaccio
Bernini
The Apennines
Florida
31. Which sea is to the east?
soccer - il calcio
Dante
Giuseppe Garibaldi
Adriatic Sea
32. Which river flows through Rome?
Tiber
Island of Stromboli
Arturo Toscanini
Arno
33. Where is mt Etna located?
Po
Leonardo da Vinci
Antonio Vivaldi
Eastern Sicily
34. How do you say 'coal' in Italian?
Carbone
Mont Blanc
Giuseppe Mazzini
independent democratic republic (Repubblica Italiana)
35. Which seas are to the west?
Petrarca
Capri - Ischia
Ligurian Sea - Tyrrhenian Sea
Boccaccio
36. Who is the greatest Venetian painter of the Renaissance who painted the Rape of Europa?
Carbone
The Alps
Titian
Giuseppe Mazzini
37. Who is called 'la spada' and lead the Red shirts?
Arno
Giuseppe Garibaldi
Risorgimento
Leonardo da Vinci
38. Who wrote Madama Butterfly?
Lateran Treaty of 1929
Mediterranean Sea
Ionian Sea - Mediterranean Sea
Giacomo Puccini
39. What political party is in power?
Christian Democratic Party
Leonardo da Vinci
Bernini
Etna
40. Which four countries touch Italy? (Alphabetical)
South of Naples
Minister of Education
Austria - France - Slovenia - Switzerland
Enrico Fermi
41. Which island is very mountainous and is rich in livestock?
Vesuvius
Dante
Sardinia
Galileo
42. Italy is a ___ ___ ___. (type of government)
Risorgimento
Capri - Ischia
independent democratic republic (Repubblica Italiana)
Marconi
43. Who was the father of modern political science and wrote Il Principe (The Prince)?
Ligurian Sea - Tyrrhenian Sea
soccer - il calcio
Mussolini
Machiavelli
44. Who is the greatest artist - scientist - and inventor of all time?
Lateran Treaty of 1929
soccer - il calcio
Leonardo da Vinci
Bernini
45. The majority of Italians are ____ _____. (religion)
Etna
The Alps
Roman Catholics
Enrico Fermi
46. Where is mt Vesuvius located?
La Befana
Marconi
Mont Blanc
South of Naples
47. Which is Italy's largest lake?
Po
Garda
Marconi
Mediterranean Sea
48. Italy is generally called '___ ___'. (refering to climate)
Mont Blanc
Capri - Ischia
Garda
Sunny Italy
49. Who invented the electric battery and electric condenser?
Boccaccio
Victor Emmanuel II of Piedmont
Alessandro Volta
Caruso
50. The ___ _ ___ is in charge of all education.
Mussolini
Capri - Ischia
Dante
Minister of Education