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