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