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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) Orto Botanico dell'Università di Pisa
B) Pisa Natural History Garden
C) Botanical Garden of Florence
D) Giardino Mediceo
  • 2. Which university operates the Orto botanico di Pisa?
A) University of Rome
B) University of Florence
C) University of Pisa
D) University of Bologna
  • 3. On which street is the Orto botanico di Pisa located?
A) via Medicean 3
B) via Luca Ghini 5
C) via Cosimo I 8
D) via Santa Marta 12
  • 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) Greece
B) France
C) Spain
D) Italy
  • 6. In what year was the garden established?
A) 1544
B) 1591
C) 1563
D) 1836
  • 7. Under whose rule was the garden established?
A) Luca Ghini
B) Joseph Goedenhuyze
C) Cosimo I de' Medici
D) Lorenzo de' Medici
  • 8. What distinction did the garden hold as a university botanical garden in Europe?
A) The largest
B) The last
C) The most modern
D) The first
  • 9. Who was entrusted with the newly established garden?
A) Joseph Goedenhuyze
B) Cosimo I
C) Galileo Galilei
D) Luca Ghini
  • 10. Where was Luca Ghini from?
A) Imola
B) Pisa
C) Venice
D) Florence
  • 11. In what year was the garden first relocated?
A) 1544
B) 1591
C) 1563
D) 1861
  • 12. What was the location of the garden's original site?
A) via Luca Ghini
B) Near the convent of Santa Marta
C) Riverside location near the Medicean Arsenal
D) Inside the university main building
  • 13. To what area was the garden moved in 1563?
A) The Medicean Arsenal
B) Imola
C) Near the convent of Santa Marta
D) Florence countryside
  • 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) Cosimo I de' Medici
B) Luca Ghini
C) Joseph Goedenhuyze
D) Galileo Galilei
  • 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) Pisa's Museo di Storia Naturale
B) The National Archive
C) The university library
D) The botanical institute
  • 18. What portraits have been contained in the garden since early times?
A) Directors throughout the centuries
B) Founders of the university
C) Medici family members
D) Famous Italian painters
  • 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) Only agricultural zones and orchards
B) A single massive greenhouse
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) Renaissance sculptures and fountains
B) Herb gardens and arboreta
C) Exotic animal enclosures and aquariums
D) Mineral and rock formations
  • 22. Between which years was the old botany institute built?
A) 1544–1550
B) 1563–1570
C) 1591–1595
D) 1836–1861
  • 23. What ornaments decorate the facade of the old botany institute?
A) Bronze leaves
B) Sea-shells
C) Wooden carvings
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 natural history museum
D) A herbarium
  • 25. What specimen series was distributed by the herbarium between 1836 and 1861?
A) Plantae Mediceae
B) Flora Etrusca exsiccata
C) Flora Italica antiqua
D) Hortus Pisanus
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