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