City of Milan
Italian Language & History
Astronomy
Italian Food & History
Italian Culture in America
100
This famous mountain range is north of Milan.
What are the Alps?
100
Translate: “Mi chiamo Leo e sono di Boston.”
What is “my name is Leo and I am from Boston.”?
100
This is the name of the star at the center of our solar system.
What is the sun?
100
This staple of modern Italian cooking arrived in Italy from the New World for the first time in 1548, described as “the golden apple”.
What is the tomato?
100
Boston's oldest residential community, covering about 0.36 square miles and widely known as the city's "Little Italy".
What is the North End?
200
This 2026 sequel film starring Meryl Streep and Anne Hathaway features scenes filmed in Milan during Fashion Week.
What is The Devil Wears Prada 2?
200
This ancient city was buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD.
What is Pompeii?
200
This planet is famous for its prominent rings.
What is Saturn?
200
Popular culinary history links the creation of this dish to the combination of certain American and British military rations with traditional Italian pasta and pecorino cheese during WWII.
What is carbonara?
200
This landmark 1972 Francis Ford Coppola film—starring Marlon Brando and Al Pacino—immortalized the Italian-American mob experience in cinema.
What is The Godfather?
300
Name ONE famous Italian luxury fashion brand founded in Milan in the 20th century.
What is Prada, Giorgio Armani, Dolce & Gabbana, Moschino, or Etro?
300
This Italian scientist famously used a telescope to observe Jupiter's moons and supported the idea that Earth orbits the Sun.
Who is Galileo Galilei?
300
This galaxy, which contains our Solar System, is classified as a barred spiral galaxy.
What is the Milky Way?
300
In traditional Italian dining, this meat is generally NOT paired with pasta.
What is chicken?
300
Name ONE “Italian” dish that actually originated in America.
What is spaghetti & meatballs, chicken parm, fettucinini alfredo or baked ziti?
400
This famous Milan cathedral is known for its elaborate Gothic architecture and thousands of statues.
What is the Duomo di Milano?
400
In 1861, this man became the first king of the newly unified Kingdom of Italy.
Who is Victor Emmanuel II?
400
A light-year is a unit of this, despite its name.
What is distance?
400
Leo insists that his pesto must come from this Northern Italian port city.
What is Genova?
400
Celebrated on Christmas Eve by many Italian-American families, this seafood-heavy meal is called…
What is the Feast of the Seven Fishes?
500
This famous football stadium in Milan is shared by AC Milan and Inter Milan.
What is San Siro?
500
This famous medieval poet wrote The Divine Comedy in the Tuscan dialect rather than Latin, helping to make his variety of Italian the foundation of modern standard Italian.
Who is Dante Alighieri?
500
This phenomenon occurs when the Moon passes directly between Earth and the Sun, temporarily blocking some or all of the Sun.
What is a solar eclipse?
500
This Milanese sweet bread is traditionally associated with Christmas and is now eaten around the world.
What is panettone?
500
Name TWO Italian explorers who arrived in North America at the end of the 15th century.
Who are Christopher Columbus and John Cabot?
