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