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Quiz Italia 2011

Delhi

Date: 12th October, 2011

Venue: Edmund Rice Hall, St. Columba’s School

QM: Mr. Adittya Nath Mubayi

Result:

1. Bal Bharati Public School, Noida

2. New Era Public School, Mayapuri

3. Summerfield School, Kailash Colony

4. Bal Bharati Public School, Noida

5. Amity International School, Saket

6. 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 Waldseemüller? America 9. Who was the last Italian born pope who was also the shortest reigning one for 33 days? Pope John Paul I 10. Which Italian movie’s 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 cheese

concoction?

Cassata

6. Which Germanic tribe which also lends its name to English was

responsible 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 Ferrari’s manufacturing plant is known as the

Supercar capital of the world?

Modena

3. Who is the longest living Nobel laureate and the only to cross the age of

100 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.

Hadrian’s 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 as

Leonardo, Raphael, Donatello and Michelangelo?

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

4. What is the name given to a grouping of lines, set off by a space that

usually 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 Italian

Grand Prix?

Michael Schumacher

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

Radio?

Guglielmo Marconi

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