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