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