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Culture Bowl 2 Click to continue
Roberta Pennasilico, Naples High School
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Miscella-neous
Current EventsLanguage
History & Geography
Art & literature
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Who painted the Mona Lisa?
Art & Literature 100 Point Question
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Art & literature 100 Point Answer
Leonardo da Vinci
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Art & Literature200 Point Question
What is the Italian name for the period
in XV century that saw the rebirth of
the arts in general?
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Il Rinascimento
(The Renaissance)
Art & Literature 200 Point Answer
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Art & Literature 300 Point Question
Who wrote the “Cantico dei Cantici”,
one of the very first documented
poems in Italian?
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Art & Literature300 Point Answer
St. Francis of Assisi
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Name the Italian movie shot in the islands
of Procida (near Naples) and Salina
(Sicily), which talks about the friendship
between poet Neruda and a Neapolitan
young man.
Art & Literature 400 Point Question
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The Postman (Il Postino)
Art & Literature 400 Point Answer
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What is the name of the Opera
House in Milan?
Art & Literature500 Point Question
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La Scala
Art & Literature 500 Point Answer
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Which is the largest island in Italy?
History & Geography 100 Point Question
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History & Geography 100 Point Answer
Sicily
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History & Geography 200 Point Question
Ravello and Positano are small towns
on a famous Italian coast. Which one?
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The Amalfi Coast
History & Geography 200 Point Answer
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History & Geography300 Point Question
Who said the sentence:
I came, I saw, I conquered
(Veni, vidi, vici)?
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History & Geography300 Point Answer
Julius Ceasar
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In which year did Vesuvius erupt?
History & Geography 400 Point Points
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79 A. D.
History & Geography 400 Point Answer
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What is the name of the Northern
coast of Sardinia, famous for luxurious
villas with private beaches?
History & Geography 500 Point Question
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The Emerald Coast
(La costa smeralda)
History & Geography 500 Point Answer
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How do you call the different
languages spoken in the different
regions of Italy?
Language100 Point Question
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Language 100 Point Answer
Dialects
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Language200 Point Question
How do you say:
“I don’t like singing?”
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Non mi piace cantare.
Language200 Point Answer
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Language 300 Point Question
A term used in English, A. D., derives
from Latin. What does it stand for?
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Theme 3 Response 300 Points
Anno Domini
(in the year of the Lord)
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What is another English word for
“freedom”, of Latin root?
Language 400 Point Question
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Liberty = Liberta’
Theme 3 Response 400 Point Answer
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Italian poet to first win the Nobel prize
for literature in 1906. His main
collection of poems is “Rime”, and he
translated Homer’s “Iliad” into Italian.
Who is he?
Language 500 Point Question
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Giosué Carducci
Language500 Point Answer
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Valentino, Versace, Ferre’.
Who are they?
Current Events 100 Point Question
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Current Events 100 Point Answer
Italian fashion designers.
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Current Events 200 Point Question
Who was Luciano Pavarotti?
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An opera singer
Current Events 200 Point Answer
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Current Events 300 Point Question
What is the most famous Italian music
show that takes place in mid-February
and lasts almost a week?
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Current Events 300 Point Answer
Il Festival di Sanremo
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What is the name of the Prime
Minister in Italian?
Current Events 400 Point Question
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Presidente del Consiglio
Current Events 400 Point Answer
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There are farms-resorts that offer tourists a
relaxing vacation in the open air. They are often
located in the middle of the country, so they grow
their own food and offer it to their guests. What
is this form of tourism called?
Current Events 500 Point Question
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Agriturismo
Current Events 500 Point Answer
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Where is the most popular Carnival
parade held?
Miscellanous 100 Point Question
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Miscellaneous 100 Point Answer
Venice
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Miscellaneous 200 Point Question
What’s the most famous wine
produced in Tuscany?
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Chianti
Miscellaneous 200 Point Answer
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Miscellaneous 300 Point Question
Name the Neapolitan actor who made
a lot of comedies in the 1960’s, wore a
bowler hat and made a lot of new
words/expressions in Italian.
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Miscellaneous 300 Point Answer
Toto’
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Madame Butterfly and Turandot are
operas written by….?
Miscellaneous 400 Point Question
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Giacomo Puccini
Miscellaneous 400 Point Answer
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This movie by Gabriele Salvatores won the
Oscar prize in 1992. It is about a group of
Italian soldiers abandoned on a Greek island at
the end of WW2. What movie is it?
Miscellaneous 500 Point Question
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Mediterraneo
Miscellaneous 500 Point Answer
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