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Italian Culture And Geography
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1. How do you say 'coal' in Italian?
Rossini
Carbone
Garda
Arturo Toscanini
2. Which seas are to the west?
Giuseppe Garibaldi
Ligurian Sea - Tyrrhenian Sea
Christopher Columbus
Lateran Treaty of 1929
3. Who is the greatest Venetian painter of the Renaissance who painted the Rape of Europa?
Titian
Romance
The Alps
Dante
4. Which volcano is located on the island of Stromboli?
Galileo
Stromboli
Ligurian Sea - Tyrrhenian Sea
Florida
5. Where is mt Vesuvius located?
Christian Democratic Party
independent democratic republic (Repubblica Italiana)
Minister of Education
South of Naples
6. Spans across which sea?
Mont Blanc
Luigi Pirandello
Mediterranean Sea
Vesuvius
7. 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?
Ionian Sea - Mediterranean Sea
Capri - Ischia
Mont Blanc
Galileo
8. Who was the father of modern political science and wrote Il Principe (The Prince)?
Austria - France - Slovenia - Switzerland
Stromboli
Machiavelli
Carbone
9. Which island is very mountainous and is rich in livestock?
Romance
Marco Polo
Bernini
Sardinia
10. Italy is generally called '___ ___'. (refering to climate)
Giuseppe Garibaldi
Arno
Giuseppe Verdi
Sunny Italy
11. Who composed the Barber of Seville and William Tell?
Arno
Rossini
Romance
Minister of Education
12. Who 'discovered' America in 1492?
Christopher Columbus
Sardinia
Cavour
Enrico Fermi
13. Italy is a ___ ___ ___. (type of government)
Capri - Ischia
Vesuvius
Sicily
independent democratic republic (Repubblica Italiana)
14. Who is the greatest artist - scientist - and inventor of all time?
Dante
Sardinia
Vesuvius
Leonardo da Vinci
15. Who is the physicist who escaped to the US and helped develop the atomic and hydrogen bombs?
Vesuvius
Enrico Fermi
Arno
Botticelli
16. What is the most popular sport in Italy?
Arno
Florida
Eastern Sicily
soccer - il calcio
17. Italian is a ___ language.
Sardinia
Ligurian Sea - Tyrrhenian Sea
Romance
Tiber
18. Who sculpted the Gates of Paradise which are the bronze doors of the baptistery of the Duomo in Florence?
Raphael
Lorenzo Ghiberti
Mont Blanc
Sardinia
19. Who was the leader of the Italian independence movement?
Dante
Antonio Vivaldi
Giuseppe Mazzini
Risorgimento
20. Who composed the Four Seasons?
Adriatic Sea
Antonio Vivaldi
Risorgimento
Sunny Italy
21. Who is the greatest conductor of all time?
Donatello
John Cabot
Arturo Toscanini
La Befana
22. Who is the author of the Divine Comedy and the father of the Italian language?
Tiber
Romance
Petrarca
Dante
23. What political party is in power?
Austria - France - Slovenia - Switzerland
Marco Polo
Christian Democratic Party
Lateran Treaty of 1929
24. Who is the most famous Italian tenor?
Galileo
John Cabot
Caruso
Ligurian Sea - Tyrrhenian Sea
25. Where is mt Etna located?
Giuseppe Verdi
Giuseppe Garibaldi
Mussolini
Eastern Sicily
26. Which sea is to the east?
Adriatic Sea
soccer - il calcio
Antonio Vivaldi
Stromboli
27. What is the official language of Italy?
Sardinia
Italian
The Apennines
Christian Democratic Party
28. Which river is the longest?
Po
Garda
Giacomo Puccini
Donatello
29. Who developed wireless telegraphy?
Giuseppe Mazzini
Capri - Ischia
Marconi
Machiavelli
30. Which treaty formed the Vatican City
Lateran Treaty of 1929
Mussolini
Bernini
The Alps
31. Who wrote Madama Butterfly?
Giacomo Puccini
Arturo Toscanini
Adige
Risorgimento
32. Who sculpted David and Gattamelata?
Caruso
Lorenzo Ghiberti
'il bel paese'
Donatello
33. Which volcano is located south of Naples?
Luigi Pirandello
Lorenzo Ghiberti
Vesuvius
Florida
34. Nickname for Italy
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35. Who is the greatest opera composer?
Galileo
Dante
Adriatic Sea
Giuseppe Verdi
36. Who lead the Fascist movement?
Lorenzo Ghiberti
Vesuvius
Luigi Pirandello
Mussolini
37. The majority of Italians are ____ _____. (religion)
Roman Catholics
Mediterranean Sea
Minister of Education
Titian
38. Who was the great Italian poet?
Botticelli
independent democratic republic (Repubblica Italiana)
Petrarca
Island of Stromboli
39. Which mountain range forms a natural border across northern Italy?
Italian
Eastern Sicily
The Alps
Boccaccio
40. Which is the second longest river that flows through Verona?
Michelangelo
Adige
Carbone
independent democratic republic (Repubblica Italiana)
41. How do you say 'the awakening' in Italian?
Lorenzo Ghiberti
Risorgimento
Marco Polo
Tiber
42. Who sculpted La Pieta and David and painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel?
Bernini
Michelangelo
Petrarca
Christopher Columbus
43. Which two islands are in the Bay of Naples?
Titian
Alessandro Volta
Capri - Ischia
Sicily
44. Which volcano is located in eastern Sicily?
Victor Emmanuel II of Piedmont
Etna
Christian Democratic Party
Giuseppe Garibaldi
45. Who wrote the play Six Characters in Search of an Author?
Adriatic Sea
Luigi Pirandello
Lateran Treaty of 1929
Botticelli
46. Which seas are to the south?
Ionian Sea - Mediterranean Sea
Roman Catholics
Rossini
Island of Stromboli
47. Which river flows through Florence and Pisa?
Ligurian Sea - Tyrrhenian Sea
Arno
Florida
South of Naples
48. Who invented the electric battery and electric condenser?
The Alps
Boccaccio
Alessandro Volta
Antonio Vivaldi
49. Who was the brain ('il cervello') of the Italian independence movement and the King of Piedmont?
Giuseppe Garibaldi
Arturo Toscanini
Cavour
'il bel paese'
50. Who was the leading sculptor of the Baroque period who was designed Saint Peters Square in the Vatican city?
Austria - France - Slovenia - Switzerland
Boccaccio
Bernini
Antonio Vivaldi
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