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