Question | Answer | % Correct |
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Sistine Chapel ceiling painter | Michelangelo Buonarroti | 93%
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Major poet known for the Divine Comedy | Dante Alighieri | 74%
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Media tycoon and politician known for "bunga bunga" scandal | Silvio Berlusconi | 74%
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One of the Three Tenors with Plácido Domingo and José Carreras | Luciano Pavarotti | 69%
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Prime Minister from 1922 to 1943 | Benito Mussolini | 67%
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"Discovered" America in 1492 | Christopher Columbus | 67%
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Venitian merchant, explorer, and writer, born in 1254 | Marco Polo | 67%
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Polymath of the Renaissance, exemplar of the "Universal Genius" | Leonardo da Vinci | 64%
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XVII century Italian astronomer | Galileo Galilei | 60%
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Motor racing entrepreneur, founder of an iconic automotive marque | Enzo Ferrari | 57%
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Educator known for the philosophy of education that bears her name | Maria Montessori | 48%
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1993 Ballon d'Or football player | Roberto Baggio | 48%
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Actress known for "Two Women" or "Marriage Italian Style" films | Sophia Loren | 48%
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Physicist pioneer of electricity and power | Alessandro Volta | 40%
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This great mathematician of antiquity was Sicilian | Archimedes of Syracuse | 31%
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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 | 26%
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Nobel prize for Literature in 1926 | Grazia Deledda | 14%
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