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