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