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