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Orto botanico di Pisa - Quiz
  • 1. What is another name for the Orto botanico di Pisa?
A) Pisa Natural History Garden
B) Orto Botanico dell'Università di Pisa
C) Botanical Garden of Florence
D) Giardino Mediceo
  • 2. Which university operates the Orto botanico di Pisa?
A) University of Pisa
B) University of Bologna
C) University of Florence
D) University of Rome
  • 3. On which street is the Orto botanico di Pisa located?
A) via Santa Marta 12
B) via Cosimo I 8
C) via Luca Ghini 5
D) via Medicean 3
  • 4. In which city is the botanical garden situated?
A) Pisa
B) Milan
C) Rome
D) Florence
  • 5. In which country is the Orto botanico di Pisa located?
A) Greece
B) Italy
C) France
D) Spain
  • 6. In what year was the garden established?
A) 1591
B) 1544
C) 1836
D) 1563
  • 7. Under whose rule was the garden established?
A) Cosimo I de' Medici
B) Joseph Goedenhuyze
C) Luca Ghini
D) Lorenzo de' Medici
  • 8. What distinction did the garden hold as a university botanical garden in Europe?
A) The first
B) The most modern
C) The last
D) The largest
  • 9. Who was entrusted with the newly established garden?
A) Luca Ghini
B) Joseph Goedenhuyze
C) Galileo Galilei
D) Cosimo I
  • 10. Where was Luca Ghini from?
A) Florence
B) Pisa
C) Imola
D) Venice
  • 11. In what year was the garden first relocated?
A) 1591
B) 1563
C) 1861
D) 1544
  • 12. What was the location of the garden's original site?
A) Near the convent of Santa Marta
B) Inside the university main building
C) via Luca Ghini
D) Riverside location near the Medicean Arsenal
  • 13. To what area was the garden moved in 1563?
A) Imola
B) Florence countryside
C) The Medicean Arsenal
D) Near the convent of Santa Marta
  • 14. In what year did the garden move to its third and current location?
A) 1836
B) 1591
C) 1563
D) 1544
  • 15. Who was in charge when the garden moved to its third location in 1591?
A) Luca Ghini
B) Galileo Galilei
C) Joseph Goedenhuyze
D) Cosimo I de' Medici
  • 16. What early institution has the garden's gallery of natural objects become?
A) The botanical school
B) Pisa's Museo di Storia Naturale
C) The Medicean Arsenal
D) The university library
  • 17. What did the garden's historical library become part of?
A) The botanical institute
B) Pisa's Museo di Storia Naturale
C) The university library
D) The National Archive
  • 18. What portraits have been contained in the garden since early times?
A) Famous Italian painters
B) Medici family members
C) Directors throughout the centuries
D) Founders of the university
  • 19. What special type of hothouse does the garden include?
A) A subterranean heating vault
B) A glass-free greenhouse
C) The largest wooden hothouse in Europe
D) One of the earliest iron-framed hothouses built in Italy
  • 20. Into what is the garden divided today?
A) Divided strictly into four medieval courtyards
B) A single massive greenhouse
C) Only agricultural zones and orchards
D) Sections containing the botanical school, gardens, ponds, greenhouses, and buildings
  • 21. What major collections are found in the garden today?
A) Exotic animal enclosures and aquariums
B) Renaissance sculptures and fountains
C) Mineral and rock formations
D) Herb gardens and arboreta
  • 22. Between which years was the old botany institute built?
A) 1563–1570
B) 1544–1550
C) 1836–1861
D) 1591–1595
  • 23. What ornaments decorate the facade of the old botany institute?
A) Sea-shells
B) Wooden carvings
C) Bronze leaves
D) Marble statues
  • 24. What does the garden house that contains specimen collections by Italian botanists?
A) A zoological archive
B) An art gallery
C) A herbarium
D) A natural history museum
  • 25. What specimen series was distributed by the herbarium between 1836 and 1861?
A) Plantae Mediceae
B) Flora Etrusca exsiccata
C) Hortus Pisanus
D) Flora Italica antiqua
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