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Orto botanico di Pisa - Quiz
  • 1. What is another name for the Orto botanico di Pisa?
A) Giardino Mediceo
B) Pisa Natural History Garden
C) Botanical Garden of Florence
D) Orto Botanico dell'Università di Pisa
  • 2. Which university operates the Orto botanico di Pisa?
A) University of Florence
B) University of Bologna
C) University of Rome
D) University of Pisa
  • 3. On which street is the Orto botanico di Pisa located?
A) via Cosimo I 8
B) via Medicean 3
C) via Luca Ghini 5
D) via Santa Marta 12
  • 4. In which city is the botanical garden situated?
A) Rome
B) Pisa
C) Milan
D) Florence
  • 5. In which country is the Orto botanico di Pisa located?
A) Greece
B) Spain
C) France
D) Italy
  • 6. In what year was the garden established?
A) 1591
B) 1836
C) 1563
D) 1544
  • 7. Under whose rule was the garden established?
A) Cosimo I de' Medici
B) Luca Ghini
C) Lorenzo de' Medici
D) Joseph Goedenhuyze
  • 8. What distinction did the garden hold as a university botanical garden in Europe?
A) The first
B) The largest
C) The last
D) The most modern
  • 9. Who was entrusted with the newly established garden?
A) Joseph Goedenhuyze
B) Luca Ghini
C) Cosimo I
D) Galileo Galilei
  • 10. Where was Luca Ghini from?
A) Pisa
B) Florence
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) Riverside location near the Medicean Arsenal
C) Inside the university main building
D) via Luca Ghini
  • 13. To what area was the garden moved in 1563?
A) Near the convent of Santa Marta
B) The Medicean Arsenal
C) Florence countryside
D) Imola
  • 14. In what year did the garden move to its third and current location?
A) 1544
B) 1563
C) 1836
D) 1591
  • 15. Who was in charge when the garden moved to its third location in 1591?
A) Cosimo I de' Medici
B) Galileo Galilei
C) Joseph Goedenhuyze
D) Luca Ghini
  • 16. What early institution has the garden's gallery of natural objects become?
A) Pisa's Museo di Storia Naturale
B) The Medicean Arsenal
C) The university library
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) Founders of the university
B) Famous Italian painters
C) Directors throughout the centuries
D) Medici family members
  • 19. What special type of hothouse does the garden include?
A) A subterranean heating vault
B) One of the earliest iron-framed hothouses built in Italy
C) A glass-free greenhouse
D) The largest wooden hothouse in Europe
  • 20. Into what is the garden divided today?
A) A single massive greenhouse
B) Only agricultural zones and orchards
C) Divided strictly into four medieval courtyards
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) Mineral and rock formations
C) Herb gardens and arboreta
D) Renaissance sculptures and fountains
  • 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 natural history museum
B) A zoological archive
C) A herbarium
D) An art gallery
  • 25. What specimen series was distributed by the herbarium between 1836 and 1861?
A) Flora Etrusca exsiccata
B) Flora Italica antiqua
C) Hortus Pisanus
D) Plantae Mediceae
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