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