Educational Travel Week: Italy Destination Quiz
Ciao bella. Ready to try your luck with some good, old-fashioned Italian history? Grande! Take your best shot at the following questions covering all things Italy. Buona fortuna!
- 1.New Orleans may have Mardi Gras, but over in Ivrea, Italy, thousands of citizens come out to celebrate the beginning of Lent in a slightly different way. Do they…
- A.
Throw oranges at one another
- B.
Celebrate a city-wide moment of silence
- C.
Dress up in full costume to honer their birth saint
- D.
Earn beads by baring all
- 2.Grab your Eurail pass because it’s geography time again. Which countries do not share a border with “The Boot.”
- A.
Slovenia
- B.
Austria
- C.
Switzerland
- D.
Hungary
- 3.Who wants a piece of the pizza pie? The world’s first true pizzeria, Antica Pizzeria Port’Alba, opened in this famous Italian city in 1830.
- A.
Napoli (Naples)
- B.
Firenze (Florence)
- C.
Venezia (Venice)
- D.
Milano (Milan)
- 4.Think you know Flo? Which famous “Florence” was named after the city of her birth?
- A.
Florence Henderson
- B.
Florence Nightingale
- C.
Florence Kling Harding
- D.
Florence Ballard
- 5.Anyone up for a puppet show? If so, then you’ll definitely want to check out the more than 6,000 puppets (sadly, no Kermit) on display at the International Puppet Museum in this city…
- A.
Turin
- B.
Palermo
- C.
Perugia
- D.
Bologna
- 6.You’ll want to be careful where you step in the South of Italy, what with Europe's only three active volcanoes being located there. Which Italian “Monte” is not currently active?
- A.
Etna
- B.
Stromboli
- C.
Imiata
- D.
Vesuvius
- 7.Looking for a place to exchange those travelers cheques? How about the world’s oldest bank still in business, operating since 1472? The line forms in this Italian city…
- A.
Siena
- B.
Perugia
- C.
Genoa
- D.
Verona
- 8.Great food, great art and, of course, great music can all be found in Italy. So which of the following instruments was not invented by the Italianos?
- A.
Piano
- B.
Violin
- C.
Cello
- D.
Oboe
- 9.Long before there was Sundance, this Film Festival laid claim to oldest in the world, dating back to 1932.
- A.
Florence International Film Festival
- B.
Venice International Film Festival
- C.
Cinemademare Film Festival
- D.
Milano Film Festival
- 10.One last question in honor of educational travel week. Founded in 1088, the oldest European university in continuous operation is …
- A.
Università degli Studi Alma Mater di Bologna (The University of Bologna)
- B.
Università degli Studi di Bergamo (The University of Bergamo)
- C.
Università degli Studi di Firenze (The University of Florence)
- D.
Università degli Studi di Palermo (The University of Palermo)