Italy Quiz - 102 Trivia Questions!

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Discover the beauty and culture of Italy, a Mediterranean country known for its art, history, cuisine, and iconic landmarks like the Colosseum and the Vatican.

Who led a Spanish expedition to the Americas in 1492?

The Spanish conquistador
Juan Fernandez de Aragon
The Spanish king
Christopher Columbus

Which Italian Renaissance architect designed the dome of the Cathedral of Florence?

Giacomo Lorenzo Bernini
Luigi Lorenzo Bernini
Filippo Brunelleschi
Giotto di Lodovico

Who was the first republican Prime Minister of Italy?

Giuseppe Verdi
Alcide De Gasperi
Benito Mussolini
Giulio Forni

Who is the current President of Italy?

Marco Rubio
Sergio Mattarella
Antonio Conte
Andrea Doria

Who became Prime Minister of Italy in February 2021?

Marco Mattei
Carlo Di Maio
Mario Draghi
Luigi Lombardi

Who composed the operas Tosca, Madame Butterfly and Turandot?

Nicola Benedetti
Giuseppe Verdi
Giacomo Puccini
Giacomo Puccini's father

What is the most popular sport in Italy?

Basketball
Soccer
Tennis
Football

What is the most famous Italian wine?

San Gimignano
Vinesi
Riserva
Chianti

What is the Latin term for a man of Italy?

Italiano
Italicus
a tyrant
Italy

What is the most visited region of Italy?

Italy
Rome
Veneto
Southern Italy

What is the date of Italy's National Day?

15 August
2 June
June 2
24 August

Which country was annexed by Italy at the end of World War I?

Austria
Yugoslavia
Italy
Germany

In August 2006, Italy deployed 2,450 troops to UNIFIL, a peacekeeping mission in which country?

Iraq
South Africa
Afghanistan
Lebanon

Which 17th century Italian poet wrote 'The Pentamerone', a collection of fairy tales?

Carlo Gozzi
Ludovico Einstein
Giambattista Basile
Ariosto

Which Italian playwright won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1997?

Dario Fo
Oskar Homolka
Antonio Negri
Federico Fellini

Who replaced Silvio Berlusconi as Prime Minister of Italy in 2013?

Giuseppe Conte
Enrico Letta
Giulio Terzi
Luigi Di Maio

Who is known as the ‘Father of Disco’?

Giorgio Moroder
John Lennon
The Rolling Stones
George Martin

Italy is the world's sixth largest producer of what type of energy?

Gas
Wind power
Gasoline
Solar power

What name was given to the style of art in the 15th and 16th centuries?

The Renaissance
Romantic art
Classical
Mannerism

Which is the oldest surviving Formula One team?

Ferrari
McLaren
Williams
Red Bull

After centuries of political and territorial divisions, what country was almost entirely unified in 1861?

South Africa
The United States
Italy
South America

Which 17th century Italian painter is known as the Father of the Baroque?

Giotto
Caravaggio
Giorgione
Rubens

Which was the first Italian silent film to be shown in the Whitehouse?

Cabiria
The Godfather
A Tale of Two Cities
The Ten Commandments

Which Italian dramatist wrote 'Scenarios' in 1734?

Luis Bunuel
Giuseppe Verdi
Lorenzo da Vinci
Carlo Goldoni

What is the longest river in Italy?

Alps
The Danube
Sahara
Po

Which Greek island was briefly occupied by Italy in 1923?

Ionian Islands
Rhodes
Mykonos
Corfu

What is the most common mother tongue in Italy?

French
German
Italian
Romanian

Which Italian city celebrates St John the Baptist's Day on June 24th?

Milan
Rome
Florence

Which philosopher is known as the Father of Thomism?

Thomas Aquinas
Plato
Thomas Hobbes
John Locke

Which Italian physicist is known as the architect of the atomic bomb?

Albert Einstein
Giuseppe Mennelli
Carlo Rovatti
Enrico Fermi

What type of music is particularly popular in Italy?

Pop music
Jazz
Pop

Who were the first foreign colonisers of Sicily and Sardinia?

The Greeks
Romans
The Romans
Phoenicians

What is the largest seaport in Italy?

Genoa
Milan
Venice
Naples

Who was the most famous sculptor of the Italian Renaissance?

Theodosius II
Michelangelo
Florence
The Renaissance

Who was the socialist Prime Minister of Italy in the 1980s?

Carlo Angera
Carlo Cosenza
Carlo Colombo
Bettino Craxi

What is the name of the Italian state police?

Police of the Republic
Police and Fire Departments
Polizia di Stato
Milan Police

Who was the first Italian actress to appear in a Commedia dell'Arte play?

Lucrezia's mother
Maratona
Roccoforte
Lucrezia Di Siena

What is the name of the Italian pop music festival held annually?

Locarno
Graziade
Milan
Sanremo

How many years of primary schooling are there in Italy?

Eight
Nineteen
Eighteen
Five

What is the main source of law in Italy?

The Federal Constitution
The Italian Parliament
Constitution
Parliament

Who wrote the children's classic 'Pinocchio'?

Robert Louis Stevenson
Carlo Collodi
Theodore Roosevelt
Aragorn

Which 1957 treaty created the European Union?

Treaty of Amsterdam
Luxembourg
Rome
The European Union

Which Italian physicist is credited with inventing radio?

Guglielmo Marconi
Gian Lorenzo Serafino
Giulio Rizzi
Leonardo da Vinci

What type of cheese is traditionally used in Italian desserts such as tiramisu and ricotta?

Goat cheese
Cheddar
Mascarpone
Mozzarella

What is the name of the acrobatic display team in the Italian Air Force?

Tricolour Arrows
The Italians
The Flying Cavalry
The Italian Air Force

What is the name of the income tax system in Italy that devolves a share of income to religious communities?

Income tax
Eight per thousand
The income tax system
Taxes on religious activities

What is the largest lake in Italy?

Lake Garda
Garda
Lake Maggiore
Lake Como

Who was the most famous leader of the Young Italy movement in the 19th century?

Nicola Paganini
Antonio Mezzi
Nicola Salvi
Giuseppe Garibaldi

What is the most densely populated area in Italy?

Milan
Venice
Po Valley

In Italy, what is the name of the broomstick-riding old woman who delivers presents to children on Epiphany night?

A wise old woman
Santa Claus
The Christmas fairy
Befana

What was the name of the Italian town where the Allies and Italy signed an armistice in September 1943?

Cassibile
La Spezia
Rome
Pompeii

What was the name of the alliance formed between Venice, Naples, Florence, Milan and the Pope in the 1500s?

Italic League
Grand Dukes
Venice
The League of the Four

Which Italian novelist won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1980?

Umberto Eco
Giuseppe Verdi
Giorgio Aversi
Carlo Colombo

What is the largest active volcano in Europe?

Lavafield
Etna
Lava Tower
Mount St. Helens

Who was Pope at the end of the Western Schism in 1417?

Peter I
Martin V
Pope John XXIII
Pope John XXI

What was the name of the Italian unification movement in the 19th century?

Unione Italiana
Italian Union
The League of Nations
Risorgimento

Who was Pope during the Battle of Lepanto?

The emperor of Italy
Theodore of Alexandria
Theodore VIII
Pius V

What is the name given to the geographical designation of wines and cheeses produced in Italy?

SANQ
DOC/DOP
UNESCO World Heritage List
DOC/DOP/MI

What is the highest court in Italy?

The European Union
The European Union Court
Supreme Court of Cassation
Constitutional Court

Who was the King of Italy when it became a republic in 1946?

Charles V
The Italians
Albert I
Umberto II

Who was the first King of a united Italy?

Victor Emmanuel II
Napoleon I
Emperor of the Italian Empire
Napoleon

The 'Ndrangheta' is the most powerful mafia syndicate in which Italian region?

Calabria
Sicily
Milan
Venice

Which kingdom was ruled by King Aistulf from 749 to 756?

The Kingdom of France
Avalon
Lombard
Normandy

Which mountain range forms the backbone of Italy?

The Alps
Alps
Apennine Mountains
Tiber River

What is the name of the Italian form of disco?

Pop
Italo
Dance music
Discothèque

Which Italian polymath was born in 1452 and died in 1519?

Giacomo Puglia
Nicolaus Copernicus
Albert Einstein
Leonardo da Vinci

What are the three colours of the Italian flag?

Green, white and red
Red, white and blue
White, green and yellow
Black, red and yellow

What is the main feature of an Italian garden?

Color
Water
Symmetry
The colors

What is the national animal of Italy?

Bear
Horse
Wolf
Lion

What was the Roman name for Italy?

The Italian Republic
Italy
Italia
Italia et Irlanda

What is the name of the Italian national anthem?

The Star-Spangled banner
The National Anthem of Italy
Il Canto degli Italiani
The Republic of Italy

What was the name of the ancient people who lived in central and northern Italy before the Romans?

The Italians
Romans
Etruscans
The Saxons

What is the largest oil company in Italy?

Lavazza
Eni
Statoil
Gas Natural

Which 20th century Italian philosopher is credited with creating the theory of Cultural Hegemony?

Antonio Negri
Giorgio Agamben
Carlo Alberto
Antonio Gramsci

In what period did Italian theatre originate?

Renaissance
Late 19th century
Modern times
Middle Ages

Who directed the 1970's Italian horror film 'Giallo'?

Claude Arnault
Dario Argento
John Carradine
Roberto Benigni

What was the name of Italy's successor to the Roman Empire?

Kingdom of Italy
Holy Roman Empire
The Republic of Venice
Italian Peninsula

Which Italian city is known as the fashion capital of the world?

Milan
Naples
Venice
Rome

What is the Italian name for lunch?

Pranzo
Lunch box
The lunch box
Picnic

Who was the Roman Emperor at the height of his empire?

Aristides
Titus
Brutus
Trajan

Which Italian leader was assassinated in 1978?

Aldo Moro
Luigi Benito Mussolini
Antonio De Ferrari
Marco Antonioni

In which Italian city did a bomb explode on 2nd August 1980?

Rome
Milan
Bologna

The Italian government imposed a national lockdown in March 2020 in order to contain the spread of what disease?

polio
H1N1
Ebola
Coronavirus

What architectural style was popular in Italy in the 17th and 18th centuries?

Romantic
Baroque
Classical
Romanesque

The city of Rome stands on which river?

Tiber
Tiber and Tisno
Alps
Tiber and the Danube

In which country are Italy's troops currently deployed as part of Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF)?

Libya
South Africa
Afghanistan
Italy

Which 20th century Italian painter and sculptor is known as the Father of Futurism?

Umberto Boccioni
Luigi Nervi
Giotto
Luigi Ricci

What is the world's most famous white marble, obtained from the Massa and Carrara quarries in Tuscany, Italy?

Carrara marble
marble of Carrara
Carrara marble tile
Massa marble

Who became Prime Minister of Italy in May 2018?

Giuseppe Conte
Luigi Di Maio
Matteo Renzi
Marco Bianco

What is another name for Italians?

English
Italian American
Italian
Italians

Which African country was formerly called Tripolitania and Cyrenaica?

Tunisia
Sudan
Libya
Egypt

What name is given to a church built in the Roman style?

Saint Peter's Cathedral
Cathedral
Basilica
Chapel

What was the name of the family that ruled Florence during the Italian Renaissance?

The Medici and their sons
The Uffizi Gallery
The Bardi
The Medici

What is the most famous horse race in Italy?

Milan Grand Prix
Palio di Siena
Santa Anita
La Spezia

Who became King of Italy in the 8th century?

The Romans
Charlemagne
Saint Louis
Saint Augustine

Smog is caused by the presence of what gas in the air?

nitrogen oxides
carbon dioxide
Sulphur dioxide
Nitrogen

What is the name of Italy's gendarmerie?

The Italian police
La Garda
Police
Carabinieri

Which country is Italy's biggest trading partner?

South Korea
The US
Germany
The United States

What is the most popular team sport in Italy?

Volleyball
Basketball
Tennis
Football

Which island was added to Italy by Diocletian in 292 AD?

Corsica
Livorno
Sardinia
Ibiza

Which 13th century explorer recorded his 24 years of travels in 'The Book of the Marvellous Of The World'?

Marco Polo
The king of the world
The Arabs
Theodorus of Troy

Which northern Italian port was the final destination of the Silk Road?

Venice
Trieste
Milan
Rome
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