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