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