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