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