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Italy Quiz Questions
- Which Italian media tycoon and politician served as Prime Minister of Italy in four governments?
- Name Italy's longest river?
- The Uffizi Gallery is a prominent art museum in which city?
- Which Italian is often credited as the inventor of radio, and he shared the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics?
- Milan is the capital of which Italian region?
- Which straits separates the south of Italy and Sicily?
- Which Italian university, founded in 1088, is the oldest in Europe?
- Reigning for slightly over a month in 1946, who was the last king of Italy?
- What is the principal public square of Venice?
- Which mountain range runs along the length of Italy's peninsular?
Answers:
- Silvio Berlusconi
- Po
- Florence
- Guglielmo Marconi
- Lombardy
- Strait of Messina
- Bologna
- Umberto II
- Piazza San Marco, known in English as St Mark's Square
- The Apennines
Italy Quiz Questions
- What's the better known name of ancient Roman poet Publius Maro?
- Name the monumental stairway of 135 steps in Rome, leading to the Trinitq dei Monti church?
- Marco Polo Airport is the international airport of which city?
- Rome was first called urbs aeterna by the Roman poet Tibullus in the 1st century BC, what is the translation of this phrase?
- Italian genius Leonardo da Vinci spent his last years in which country?
- Italian actress Sophia Loren starred in which Samuel Bronston 1961 film epic with Charlton Heston?
- Together with Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, which artist formed the traditional trinity of great masters of the High Renaissance period?
- Name the largest Baroque fountain in Rome, which is also one of the most famous fountains in the world?
- Name the only active volcano on mainland Europe?
- Which Turin born singer-songwriter and former model is married to former French president?
Answers:
- Virgil
- The Spanish Steps
- Venice
- The Eternal City
- France
- El Cid
- Raphael
- Trevi fountain
- Vesuvius
- Carla Bruni Sarkozy
Italy Quiz Questions
- Which popular Italian custard means 'pick me up', or 'cheer me up', in Italian?
- Cagliari is the largest city in which region of Italy?
- Which popular holiday location is also the largest lake in Italy?
- Christopher Columbus was born in which Italian city?
- What name is given to the Italian national system of motorways?
- Which famous sculpture by Michelangelo, housed in Vatican City, depicts the body of Jesus on the lap of his mother Mary after the Crucifixion?
- Which stretch of coastline on the Salerno Gulf was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site as a cultural landscape in 1997?
- What two word alternative name is often given to Rome's Colosseum?
- What is the translation of the Italin word or title 'duce', as in Il Duce?
- Which important family sponsored the majority of Florentine art during the Renaissance Period?
Answers:
- Tiramisu
- Sardinia
- Lake Garda
- Genoa
- Autostrade (singular Autostrada)
- Pieta (it is the only piece Michelangelo ever signed)
- Amalfi Coast
- Flavian Amphitheatre
- Leader
- Medici family