italy quiz - delhi rounds 2011

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Compiled by: Mukund Marodia (mukund.quizblog.in)

With valuable inputs from

Gaurav Setty

Quiz Italia 2011

Delhi

Date: 12th

October, 2011

Venue: Edmund Rice Hall, St. Columbas School

QM: Mr. Adittya Nath Mubayi

Result:

1. Bal Bharati Public School, Noida2. New Era Public School, Mayapuri3. Summerfield School, Kailash Colony4. Bal Bharati Public School, Noida5. Amity International School, Saket6. Amity International School, Saket

PRELIMS

1. Name the mountain range consisting of parallel smaller chains extending

along the length of peninsular Italy.

Apennines


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2. Which team did Diego Maradona coach for sometime?

Napoli

3. Which literary work is described as a journey through hell and heaven?

Divine comedy

4. Which town famous as the birthplace of Christopher Columbus is the capital

of Liguaria?

Genoa

5. Which nationalist newspaper was started by Count de Cavour?

Risorgimento

6. What is the collective term for Vantino and Proteus?

Two Gentlemen of Verona

7. Born as Louis Ciccone, she is a famous American artist and businesswoman?

Madonna

8. Which piece of land was named after an Italian merchant by the German

cartographer Martin Waldseemller?

America

9. Who was the last Italian born pope who was also the shortest reigning onefor 33 days?

Pope John Paul I

10. Which Italian movies name means Life is Good?

La dolce vita


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11. Which motorcycle company started by 3 brothers earlier made vacuum

cleaners, radios earlier?

Ducati

12. Which cartoon character is known as Toppolino in Italian?

Mickey mouse

13. After which famous Italian is the 100th

element of the periodic table

named?

Enrico Fermi

14. Who won the 1957 Nobel prize for his work on anti-histamines?

Daniel Beavey

Visuals

15. Leonardo da Vinci

16. Scuderia Ferrari

17. St. Don Bosco

18. Castel Santa d Angello

19. Bridge of sighs


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Finals

Round I: Clue-Do

1. Singing bird carried a lamp at Cathedral.Florence Nightingale

2. Glaziers delight near canal.Murano

3. Baby sandals marched to doom.Caligula

4. Certainly not locked.Sardinia

5. Constant number of underground diggers.Avogadro

6. Sheeted delight for cartoon cat.Lasagna


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Round II: Direct Orals

1. What is the claim to fame of Franco Malerba?First Italian in space

2. Who is the owner of the Italian FC Inter Milan?Massimo Moratti

3. Who became the first actress to win an Academy award for a non-English speaking performance in Two Women?

Sophia Loren

4. Which actor started his career in the 1948 film I Miserabili?

Marcello Mastroianni

5. Which is the Sicilian sweet from the area of Palermo meaning cheeseconcoction?

Cassata

6. Which Germanic tribe which also lends its name to English wasresponsible for destroying Rome in AD 455?

Vandals


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Round III: Visuals

1. Id.

Maria Montessori

2.

Id.

David


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3. Id.

Mario Puzo

4. Id the event.

Burning of Rome/Great Fire of Rome

5. Id.


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Giancarlo Fisichella

6. Id the film from its poster. (The name was obviously removed!)

La Dolce Vita

Round IV: Direct Orals

1. Connect: Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto.Galilean Moons


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2. Which city, home to Ferraris manufacturing plant is known as theSupercar capital of the world?

Modena

3. Who is the longest living Nobel laureate and the only to cross the age of100 years?

Rita Levi Montalcini

4. Connect to a car: Italian nobility and Hindustan Motors.Contessa

5. Which famous artist was a student of Verochhio?Leonardo da Vinci

6. Which sporting body is located at (some address in Rome)?Italian Cricket Federation

Round V: Visuals

1. Id.


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Julius Caesar

2. Id the city.

Venice

3. Id.

Hadrians Wall

4. Id the country.


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Vatican City

5. Id the painter.

Raphael

6. Id.

San Marino


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Round VI: Buzzer

1. The Italian version [buzz] of whom is called Babo Natale?Santa Claus

2. Tagliatelle, [buzz] Fusili, Capellini and Spaghetti are types of which dish?Pasta

3. Which American cartoon series [buzz] has 4 characters named asLeonardo, Raphael, Donatello and Michelangelo?

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

4. What is the name given to a grouping of lines, set off by a space thatusually has a set pattern of meter and rhyme and is a unit of a larger

poem?

Stanza

5. Who holds the record for the most number of wins [buzz] at the ItalianGrand Prix?

Michael Schumacher

6. Which Italian won the Nobel Prize in Physics [buzz] for the invention ofRadio?

Guglielmo Marconi


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