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