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Culture Bowl 1Click to continue

Roberta Pennasilico, Naples High School

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Current Events

LanguageHistory & Geography

Art & literature

Categories

Who designed the Sistine Chapel?

Art & Literature 100 Point Question

Categories

Art & Literature Response 100 Point Answer

Michelangelo

Categories

Art & literature 200 Point question

What famous monument was started

in Pisa in 1173?

Categories

The leaning tower.

Art & Literature Response 200 Point answer

Categories

Art & literature 300 Point question

Who wrote “I promessi sposi”?

Categories

Art & literature Response 300 Point answer

Alessandro Manzoni

Categories

The movie “The legend of the pianist

on the ocean” was based on the book

“Novecento”. Who is the author?

Art & literature 400 Point question

Categories

Alessandro Baricco

Art & literature 400 Point answer

Categories

Who made the blueprints for the first

helicopter, even if it was then built

centuries afterwards?

Art & literature500 point question

Categories

Leonardo da Vinci

Art & literature Response 500 Points

Categories

What region is Rome in?

History & Geography 100 Point Question

Categories

History & geography 100 Point answer

Lazio

Categories

History & Geography 200 Point question

What city did the Medici family rule?

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Florence.

History & Geography 200 Point Answer

Categories

History & Geography 300 Point Question

According to the legend, who

fed Romulus and Remus?

Categories

History & Geography 300 Point Answer

A she-wolf

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What is the name of the ancient Greek

settlements in Southern Italy?

History & Geography 400 Point Question

Categories

The Magna Graecia

History & Geography 400 Point Answer

Categories

Name the four seas that

surround Italy.

History & Geography 500 Point Question

Categories

Tyrrhene, Adriatic, Ligurian, Ionian

(Tirreno, Adriatico, Ligure, Ionio)

History & Geography 500 Point Answer

Categories

How do you say:

“What time is it?”

Language 100 Point Question

Categories

Language 100 Point Answer

Che ore sono? OR

Che ora e’?

Categories

Language 200 Point Question

Who is considered to be the

father of Italian language?

Categories

Dante Alighieri

Language 200 Point Answer

Categories

Language 300 Point Question

What does the Latin expression

Veni, Vidi, Vici mean in English?

Categories

Language300 Point Answer

I came, I saw, I conquered.

Categories

From the Latin verb “I see”, this

word indicates a part of the

television set, both in English and

in Italian. What is it?

Language 400 Point Question

Categories

Video

Language 400 Point Answer

Categories

How do you say:

“I wish you were here.”

Language500 Point Question

Categories

Vorrei che fossi qui.

Language 500 Point Answer

Categories

How many years does the President of

Italy remain in power?

Current Events100 Point Question

Categories

Current Events 100 Point Answer

7

Categories

Current Events200 Point Question

What form of government

does Italy have?

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Parliamentary Republic

Current Events200 Point Answer

Categories

Current Events300 Point Question

Zeffirelli, Moretti, Fellini.

Who are they?

Categories

Current Events300 Point Answer

Italian movie directors

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What’s the name of the famous

grand-prix in Italy?

Current Events400 Point Question

Categories

Il gran premio di Monza

Current Events400 Point Answer

Categories

Founded by Eugenio Scalfari, this

newspaper is one of the most

popular in Italy.

Current Events 500 Point Question

Categories

La Repubblica

Current Events500 Point Answer

Categories

What is “confetti” in Italian?

Miscellaneous100 Point Question

Categories

Miscellaneous100 Points Answer

Almond candy (to give out to

guests during a reception)

Categories

Miscellaneous 200 Point Question

What is the name of the independent

State in the middle of Rome?

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Vatican City

Miscellaneous 200 Point Answer

Categories

Miscellaneous 300 Point Question

The Italian movie director Roberto

Benigni won an academy award

with this movie. What is it?

Categories

Miscellaneous300 Point Answer

La vita e’ bella

Life is beautiful

Categories

What is the city near Venice that is

famous for glass crafts?

Miscellaneous 400 Point Question

Categories

Murano island

Miscellaneous 400 Point Answer

Categories

A famous Italian scientist invented the

first electric battery in 1800.

Who was he?

Miscellaneous 500 Point Question

Categories

Alessandro Volta

Miscellaneous 500 Point Answer

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