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