The document summarizes the results of the National Finals of Quiz Italia 2011 held in New Delhi. Bal Bharati Public School, Noida came first, followed by Sri Kumaran Children’s Home, Bangalore in second place and Holy Cross Matriculation Higher Secondary School, Chennai in third place. The quiz consisted of several rounds testing participants' knowledge of topics related to Italian culture, history and cinema.

1. Quiz Italia 2011
National Finals
Date: 17 October, 2011
Venue: Instituto Italiano di Culturano, New Delhi
QM: Mr. Adittya Nath Mubayi and Mr. Kunal Savarkar
Result:
1. Bal Bharati Public School, Noida
2. Sri Kumaran Children’s Home, Bangalore
3. Holy Cross Matriculation Higher Secondary School, Chennai
4. Lilavati Podar Senior Secondary School, Chennai
Round I: Clue-Do
1. Brought good news under pressure.
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2. Evangelista Torricelli
2. Female feline punched his way to top.
Sylvester Stallone
3. Imperial meditations were on target.
Marcus Aurelius
4. Windy equations to glory.
Bernoulli
Round II: Visuals
1. Id.
Guccio Gucci
2. Id.
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3. Arch of Constantine
3. Id the painting and the artist.
The Birth of Venus by Sandro Botticelli
4. Id.
Doge’s Palace, Venice
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4. Round III: Direct Orals
1. Connect to a place: The capital of Apulia and the birthplace of Pope John
Paul II.
Bari
2. Question on Fibonacci.
3. Which Italian is believed to have first invented the telephone?
Antonio Meucci
4. Question on International Red Cross.
Round IV: Video
1. Id the director. (Film-Il Postino: It was shown to all the participants in a
get-together, a day before the Finale)
Michael Radberg
2. Id the film.
Letter to Juliet
3. Id the actress. (The famous scene of Trevi Fountain from La Dolce Vita)
Anita Ekberg
4. Id the film.
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5. Cinema Paradiso
Round V: Grid (9 entities related to the foll. Topics were there.
Teams had to chose the correct 6.)
1. Types of pasta.
2. Nobel Prize Winners from Italy.
3. Leonardo Da Vinci’s ideas/discoveries.
4. Films of Bertrando Bertulucci.
Round VI: Buzzer
1. Which is the largest no. [buzz] to be written in Roman by using the
letters only once?
1666(MDCLXVI)
2. Which baseball player for New York Yankees [buzz] is best known for his
record 56 game hitting streak?
Joe di Maggio
3. Connect to a person: Ingrid Bergman, [buzz] Sonali Dasgupta, Assia Noris
and Marcella di Marchis.
Wives of Roberto Rossellini
4. Achille Gaggia [buzz] is known to have invented what?
Espresso Machine
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6. 5. Which variety of salami [buzz] usually made from cured pork and beef is
a corruption of the Italian word for pepper?
Pepperoni
6. Which soup of Italian origin which is made from vegetables, pasta and
rice means the Big Soup?
Minestrone
“Sharing is Caring”
‘Tree of Knowledge’
Let it Grow
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