| Question | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| Sistine Chapel ceiling painter | Michelangelo Buonarroti | 94%
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| Major poet known for the Divine Comedy | Dante Alighieri | 73%
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| Media tycoon and politician known for "bunga bunga" scandal | Silvio Berlusconi | 71%
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| Prime Minister from 1922 to 1943 | Benito Mussolini | 69%
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| Venitian merchant, explorer, and writer, born in 1254 | Marco Polo | 69%
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| One of the Three Tenors with Plácido Domingo and José Carreras | Luciano Pavarotti | 67%
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| "Discovered" America in 1492 | Christopher Columbus | 65%
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| Polymath of the Renaissance, exemplar of the "Universal Genius" | Leonardo da Vinci | 65%
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| XVII century Italian astronomer | Galileo Galilei | 61%
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| Motor racing entrepreneur, founder of an iconic automotive marque | Enzo Ferrari | 59%
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| Actress known for "Two Women" or "Marriage Italian Style" films | Sophia Loren | 51%
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| 1993 Ballon d'Or football player | Roberto Baggio | 49%
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| Physicist pioneer of electricity and power | Alessandro Volta | 41%
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| Educator known for the philosophy of education that bears her name | Maria Montessori | 41%
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| This great mathematician of antiquity was Sicilian | Archimedes of Syracuse | 33%
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| Female singer, dominant figure in Italian pop music from the 1960s to the mid-1970s | Mina Mazzini | 31%
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| Astrophysicist, first Italian woman to administrate the Trieste Astronomical Observatory | Margherita Hack | 22%
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| Nobel prize for Literature in 1926 | Grazia Deledda | 12%
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