Q 01/05

Venice is built on how many islands?

A) 18

B) 50

C) 100

D) 126

Answer · why

D) 126

They are separated by canals and open water and linked by 472 bridges; the historic centre counts 127 by another reckoning.

Q 02/05

Venice is the capital of which Italian region?

A) Veneto

B) Lombardy

C) Friuli-Venezia Giulia

D) Emilia-Romagna

Answer · why

A) Veneto

With Padua and Treviso it forms a statistical metropolitan area of some 2.6m people.

Q 03/05

Venice's traditional founding is dated to noon on 25 March in which year?

A) 697

B) 421

C) 810

D) 1000

Answer · why

B) 421

The date is the dedication of the church of San Giacomo on the Rialto islet, on the Feast of the Annunciation.

Q 04/05

How many doges ruled Venice in total?

A) 50

B) 117

C) 100

D) 75

Answer · why

B) 117

The word is Venetian for the Latin dux, 'leader'; the first traditional doge was elected in 697.

Q 05/05

After conquering Venice in 1797, Napoleon handed the city to which power by the Treaty of Campo Formio?

A) Prussia

B) The Papal States

C) Austria

D) Spain

Answer · why

C) Austria

The last doge, Ludovico Manin, had abdicated on 12 May; the republic had lasted since 810.