How much you know about Italian history?
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Question 1
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During Greek colonization, which of these town was founded by Spartans?
Neaples
Salerno
Taranto
Crotone
Palermo
Rome
Agrigento
Potenza
Question 2
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Sardinia was conquered by Romans defeteing who...?
Carthaginians
Samnites
Celts
Ancient Ligurians
A german tribe
Lucani
Bruttii
Anciet Venetians
Question 3
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Which popultation occupied south Italy, defeating the Arabs in Sicily and the Longbards?
The Franks
The Ostrogoths
The Visigoths
The Byzantine Empire
The Hungars
The Anglo-Saxons
They were never defeated
The Normans
Question 4
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What person the Lombard League fought against, to preserve the autonomy of their communes?
Frederick II
William the Conqueror
Philip Augustus
Sven "Forkbeard"
The emperor Fredrick I "Barbarossa"
Harold "Godwineson"
Guido da Landriano
Harald Haldrada
Question 5
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Three of the most important poets of the XIII-XIV century, and pre-humanist were...
Dante, Machiavelli and Baldassarre Castiglione
Dante, Machiavelli Ariosto
Dante, Petrarca and Boccaccio
Petrarca, Boccaccio and Bembo
Dante, Boccaccio and Tasso
Beccaria, Bembo and Tasso
Pascoli, Foscolo and Ungaretti
Rosselli, Puccini and Verdi
Question 6
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The Renaissance developed starting from...
Florence
Rome
Venice
Turin
Naples
Palermo
Milan
Palermo
Question 7
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After the Italian Wars (1494 - 1559) most of Italy was conquered by...
Kingdom of France
Kingdom of England
Holy Roman Empire
Old Swiss Confederacy
Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
Byzantine Empire
Kingdom of Spain
Austrian Empire
Question 8
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In 1764 a book called "On Crimes and Punishments" was published. Its author name's Cesare Beccaria. Why it was so important
It condemned for the first time death penalty and torture, becoming a founding work in the field of penology
It justified the absolutism of the Monarchs
It was the first fantasy novel in the history of the world
It was the first historical novel ever written
It explained why French Revolution was so important for mankind, exalting the merity of democracy
It was the first work in modern italian language
It revolutionized the strategies and the tacties, describing the the potential of firearms
It hypothesized for the first time the unfication of Italy
Question 9
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The most important cultural centers of illuminism in Italy were...
Venice and Naples
Venice and Milan
Rome and Milan
Naples and Milan
Turin and Milan
Florence and Naples
Palermo and Venice
Florence and Venice
Question 10
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What happened with the Treaty of Campo Formio (1797)?
Napoleon Bonaparte renounces to Italian territories in favour of Spanish territories
It was a Treaty of Peace for the French troops in Italy, after the defeat of Bonaparte
Bonaparte gives the territories of the Old Republic of Venice to Austrian Empire
Bonaparte joins forces with Habsburg to fight United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Bonaparte is proclaimed King of Italy
The kingdom of Sardinia must surrender to Bonaparte
Milan becomes an indipendent republic
The Savoyard king makes an alliance with Austria to fight Napoleon
Question 11
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Who was Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour?
The General who unified Italy
A very skilled politician of the Kingdom of Sardinia
The king of the Kingdom of Sardinia
The most infamous traitor of Italian history
A French politician who gained the Savoy and Nice from the Kingdom of Sardinia
A famous italian hero, who fought against austrians
The commander of the rebels during the Five Days of Milan
The leader of the Roman Republic (1849)
Question 12
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In which year the "Kingdom of Italy" was proclamed?
1870
1900
1861
1866
1859
1815
1848
1849
Question 13
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Thanks to which country Italy could be unified?
Russia
Prussia
Spain
Austria
France
U.S.A.
Ottoman Empire
Poland
Question 14
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Who is the most famous hero of Italian indipendece wars?
Luciano Manara
Daniele Manin
Victor Emmanuel II
Alfonso La Marmora
Carlo Cattaneo
Cesare Battisti
Nino Bixio
Giuseppe Garibaldi
Question 15
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In which town the king Umberto I of Italy was killed (1900)?
Ancona
Naples
Rome
Milan
Genoa
Monza
Aosta
Aquila degli Abruzzi (today L'Aquila)
Question 16
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Which countries was allied with Italy at the beginning of WWI (1914)?
Austria-Hungary and Germany
U.K, France and Russia
Only France, allied with U.K, though
Italy remained in a neutral position because it had no allies
Spain and Ottoman Empire
Russia and France
Serbia
Greece
Question 17
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In which battle Italy gained the final, decisive victory against the Austria-Hungarina Empire?
Battle of Vittorio Veneto
Battle of Piave
Battle of Caporetto
Battle of Pastrengo
Battle of the Marne
Battle of Solstizio
Italy was defeated by Austrian Army
Battle of the Somme
Question 18
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Mussolini became the dictator of Italy in...?
1922
1925
1920
1933
1918
1915
1914
1943
Question 19
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Italy, allied with Nazi Germany in WWII, attacked Greece. Then, what happend?
The Greek Army was defeated by Italian Army, but a movement of Irregular war continued till the liberation of Greece
Italy never attacked Greece
Greece immediately surrendered to Italy
The Greek Army pushed back the Italian Army many times
It occured a stalemate
British Army assaulted the Italian Army on the flank and the Italian soldiers was forced to retreat
Italian Army refuesed to fight against Greek Army
The Greek Army succeeded in defending some small territories
Question 20
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After the end of the WWII, in Italy...
It was announced a referendum to choose between Republic and Monarchy
The king died during the war, so the parties of Italian Resistance take the control of the country and proclaim the birth of the Republic of Italy
The U.S and U.K. impose a republican regime, to prevent the birth of a new dictatorship
The king Victor Emmanuel III renounces to the throne and proclaims the Republic
Mussolini continued to be the dictator of Italy. After his death it was proclaimed the Republic
The Civil War between monarchists and Republicans begun
Italy remained a Monarchy till 1974
Italy became a part of Soviet Union, so it was proclaimed the Socialist Italian Republic
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