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Italian Culture And Geography
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Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Who was the first king of Italy?
Risorgimento
Victor Emmanuel II of Piedmont
South of Naples
Titian
2. What is the official language of Italy?
Arturo Toscanini
Donatello
Sunny Italy
Italian
3. Who 'discovered' America in 1492?
Mediterranean Sea
Mussolini
Christopher Columbus
Boccaccio
4. What political party is in power?
Christian Democratic Party
Ionian Sea - Mediterranean Sea
Brunelleschi
Christopher Columbus
5. Who sculpted La Pieta and David and painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel?
Lateran Treaty of 1929
The Alps
Garda
Michelangelo
6. Italian is a ___ language.
Romance
The Apennines
Christopher Columbus
Luigi Pirandello
7. Who is the author of the Divine Comedy and the father of the Italian language?
Dante
Capri - Ischia
Arno
Carbone
8. Who sculpted the Gates of Paradise which are the bronze doors of the baptistery of the Duomo in Florence?
Christopher Columbus
Sunny Italy
Petrarca
Lorenzo Ghiberti
9. Which volcano is located on the island of Stromboli?
Stromboli
Leonardo da Vinci
independent democratic republic (Repubblica Italiana)
Adriatic Sea
10. What Venetian explorer and traveler crossed central Asia and visited China - Sumatra - Ceylon - India and Persia?
Lorenzo Ghiberti
Adige
Victor Emmanuel II of Piedmont
Marco Polo
11. What is the name of the old which who brings gifts to children on the night of January 6th?
Brunelleschi
Carbone
Mussolini
La Befana
12. Which seas are to the south?
Petrarca
South of Naples
Bernini
Ionian Sea - Mediterranean Sea
13. Which seas are to the west?
Mediterranean Sea
Ligurian Sea - Tyrrhenian Sea
Minister of Education
Eastern Sicily
14. Which volcano is located in eastern Sicily?
John Cabot
Tiber
Etna
Roman Catholics
15. Which river flows through Florence and Pisa?
Arno
Lateran Treaty of 1929
Carbone
Giuseppe Verdi
16. How do you say 'coal' in Italian?
Ligurian Sea - Tyrrhenian Sea
Carbone
Alessandro Volta
Adriatic Sea
17. Who is the greatest conductor of all time?
'il bel paese'
Dante
Tiber
Arturo Toscanini
18. Italy is a ___ ___ ___. (type of government)
Italian
Risorgimento
Capri - Ischia
independent democratic republic (Repubblica Italiana)
19. Nickname for Italy
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20. Which sea is to the east?
Victor Emmanuel II of Piedmont
Bernini
soccer - il calcio
Adriatic Sea
21. Which is Italy's largest lake?
Garda
Marco Polo
Lateran Treaty of 1929
Po
22. How do you say 'the awakening' in Italian?
Risorgimento
John Cabot
Bernini
Sardinia
23. Who designed the dome of the Duomo in Florence?
Brunelleschi
Austria - France - Slovenia - Switzerland
Ionian Sea - Mediterranean Sea
La Befana
24. Who invented the electric battery and electric condenser?
Adriatic Sea
Mediterranean Sea
Alessandro Volta
Giacomo Puccini
25. Which volcano is located south of Naples?
Christian Democratic Party
Ligurian Sea - Tyrrhenian Sea
Marconi
Vesuvius
26. Where is mt Etna located?
Risorgimento
Luigi Pirandello
Eastern Sicily
Machiavelli
27. Who lead the Fascist movement?
Romance
Adige
Mussolini
Machiavelli
28. Who is the greatest artist - scientist - and inventor of all time?
Italian
Giuseppe Verdi
Leonardo da Vinci
Po
29. Who composed the Four Seasons?
Dante
Sardinia
Michelangelo
Antonio Vivaldi
30. Who was the brain ('il cervello') of the Italian independence movement and the King of Piedmont?
Cavour
Marconi
Giuseppe Garibaldi
Lateran Treaty of 1929
31. Which four countries touch Italy? (Alphabetical)
Adige
Lorenzo Ghiberti
Austria - France - Slovenia - Switzerland
Christian Democratic Party
32. Which mountain range forms a natural border across northern Italy?
Galileo
Mediterranean Sea
Rossini
The Alps
33. Who sculpted David and Gattamelata?
Donatello
Marco Polo
Etna
Alessandro Volta
34. Who was the leader of the Italian independence movement?
Leonardo da Vinci
Garda
Giuseppe Mazzini
Galileo
35. Who was the father of modern political science and wrote Il Principe (The Prince)?
Po
Machiavelli
Antonio Vivaldi
Ligurian Sea - Tyrrhenian Sea
36. The majority of Italians are ____ _____. (religion)
Roman Catholics
Antonio Vivaldi
La Befana
Lateran Treaty of 1929
37. Who wrote Madama Butterfly?
Island of Stromboli
Mussolini
Giacomo Puccini
Giuseppe Mazzini
38. Which river is the longest?
Victor Emmanuel II of Piedmont
Po
Ionian Sea - Mediterranean Sea
Raphael
39. Who was the great Italian poet?
Arno
Austria - France - Slovenia - Switzerland
Petrarca
Dante
40. Which is the second longest river that flows through Verona?
Petrarca
Adige
Marconi
Mussolini
41. Who traveled across the Atlantic Ocean and discovered the east coast of present-day United States?
Garda
Bernini
John Cabot
Stromboli
42. Which river flows through Rome?
Petrarca
Enrico Fermi
Risorgimento
Tiber
43. Who painted The Birth of Venus?
Raphael
Lorenzo Ghiberti
Botticelli
Capri - Ischia
44. The ___ _ ___ is in charge of all education.
Minister of Education
Arturo Toscanini
'il bel paese'
Cavour
45. Who composed the Barber of Seville and William Tell?
Etna
Adige
Rossini
Minister of Education
46. Who was the author of the Decameron - a collection of short stories?
Mont Blanc
Antonio Vivaldi
Boccaccio
Sardinia
47. Which treaty formed the Vatican City
Po
Luigi Pirandello
Lateran Treaty of 1929
Giuseppe Verdi
48. Where is mt Vesuvius located?
Lateran Treaty of 1929
South of Naples
Caruso
Raphael
49. 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?
Machiavelli
Bernini
Luigi Pirandello
Galileo
50. Who is the greatest opera composer?
Michelangelo
Giuseppe Verdi
Garda
Raphael