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Italian Culture And Geography
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Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Which volcano is located on the island of Stromboli?
Stromboli
John Cabot
Sicily
Giuseppe Verdi
2. Nickname for Italy
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3. What political party is in power?
soccer - il calcio
Roman Catholics
Christian Democratic Party
Titian
4. Which river flows through Rome?
Boccaccio
Sicily
Tiber
Marco Polo
5. Who sculpted the Gates of Paradise which are the bronze doors of the baptistery of the Duomo in Florence?
Lorenzo Ghiberti
Giuseppe Garibaldi
Mussolini
soccer - il calcio
6. Where is mt Vesuvius located?
South of Naples
soccer - il calcio
Cavour
Italian
7. Who painted The Birth of Venus?
Mediterranean Sea
Cavour
Giuseppe Verdi
Botticelli
8. Who is called 'la spada' and lead the Red shirts?
Marconi
Christian Democratic Party
Giuseppe Garibaldi
Minister of Education
9. Who invented the electric battery and electric condenser?
Enrico Fermi
Mont Blanc
Rossini
Alessandro Volta
10. Who is the greatest artist - scientist - and inventor of all time?
Giacomo Puccini
Luigi Pirandello
Cavour
Leonardo da Vinci
11. Who traveled across the Atlantic Ocean and discovered the east coast of present-day United States?
Galileo
Titian
Enrico Fermi
John Cabot
12. Italy is a ___ ___ ___. (type of government)
Etna
independent democratic republic (Repubblica Italiana)
Ionian Sea - Mediterranean Sea
Michelangelo
13. Who was the first king of Italy?
Marconi
La Befana
Victor Emmanuel II of Piedmont
Mont Blanc
14. Who wrote the play Six Characters in Search of an Author?
Luigi Pirandello
Botticelli
Cavour
Ionian Sea - Mediterranean Sea
15. Who is the most famous Italian tenor?
Luigi Pirandello
Risorgimento
Caruso
'il bel paese'
16. Which river is the longest?
Tiber
Luigi Pirandello
Arturo Toscanini
Po
17. Which mountain range forms a natural border across northern Italy?
Antonio Vivaldi
The Alps
Capri - Ischia
Mont Blanc
18. Which mountain range forms the 'backbone'?
'il bel paese'
Petrarca
South of Naples
The Apennines
19. Which river flows through Florence and Pisa?
Michelangelo
'il bel paese'
Risorgimento
Arno
20. Approximately twice the size of which US state?
Carbone
John Cabot
Florida
independent democratic republic (Repubblica Italiana)
21. Who was the great Italian poet?
Eastern Sicily
Italian
Petrarca
Machiavelli
22. Which is Italy's largest lake?
Sicily
Garda
Arturo Toscanini
Sardinia
23. What Venetian explorer and traveler crossed central Asia and visited China - Sumatra - Ceylon - India and Persia?
'il bel paese'
Minister of Education
Marco Polo
Leonardo da Vinci
24. Who developed wireless telegraphy?
Sicily
Marconi
Giacomo Puccini
Tiber
25. 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?
Lateran Treaty of 1929
Titian
Galileo
Adige
26. What is the name of the old which who brings gifts to children on the night of January 6th?
Arno
The Alps
La Befana
Vesuvius
27. What is the official language of Italy?
Mont Blanc
Adige
Tiber
Italian
28. Who designed the dome of the Duomo in Florence?
Giuseppe Garibaldi
Brunelleschi
Mediterranean Sea
Leonardo da Vinci
29. Who is the greatest opera composer?
Giuseppe Verdi
Sicily
Donatello
Brunelleschi
30. Who was the brain ('il cervello') of the Italian independence movement and the King of Piedmont?
Caruso
Rossini
Mediterranean Sea
Cavour
31. Who 'discovered' America in 1492?
Leonardo da Vinci
Giuseppe Verdi
Christopher Columbus
Florida
32. Italian is a ___ language.
Adige
Romance
Leonardo da Vinci
The Apennines
33. Where is mt Stromboli located?
Vesuvius
Botticelli
Rossini
Island of Stromboli
34. Which island is very mountainous and is rich in livestock?
Giacomo Puccini
Ligurian Sea - Tyrrhenian Sea
Po
Sardinia
35. Which seas are to the west?
Italian
Ligurian Sea - Tyrrhenian Sea
Minister of Education
Leonardo da Vinci
36. Which island is shaped like a triangle and lies just off the toe of the Italian boot?
Sicily
Po
Botticelli
Boccaccio
37. Who lead the Fascist movement?
The Alps
Mediterranean Sea
Sardinia
Mussolini
38. Which four countries touch Italy? (Alphabetical)
Minister of Education
Austria - France - Slovenia - Switzerland
Stromboli
Mont Blanc
39. Who was the author of the Decameron - a collection of short stories?
Rossini
Boccaccio
Florida
Tiber
40. Where is mt Etna located?
Eastern Sicily
Mussolini
Lateran Treaty of 1929
Caruso
41. Which seas are to the south?
Christian Democratic Party
Ionian Sea - Mediterranean Sea
Capri - Ischia
Donatello
42. Who composed the Four Seasons?
Eastern Sicily
Antonio Vivaldi
Brunelleschi
Arno
43. Which volcano is located in eastern Sicily?
Capri - Ischia
Stromboli
Marconi
Etna
44. Who was the leading sculptor of the Baroque period who was designed Saint Peters Square in the Vatican city?
Risorgimento
Bernini
Marconi
Sardinia
45. Who composed the Barber of Seville and William Tell?
Florida
Marco Polo
Rossini
Mont Blanc
46. Which volcano is located south of Naples?
Vesuvius
Giuseppe Garibaldi
The Apennines
Luigi Pirandello
47. Who was the father of modern political science and wrote Il Principe (The Prince)?
Giacomo Puccini
Machiavelli
'il bel paese'
Stromboli
48. Who is the physicist who escaped to the US and helped develop the atomic and hydrogen bombs?
Enrico Fermi
Petrarca
Botticelli
Garda
49. Which sea is to the east?
Carbone
Stromboli
Adriatic Sea
Raphael
50. What is the highest point in Italy?
Christian Democratic Party
Vesuvius
Michelangelo
Mont Blanc