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