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100
Where the most famous Italian Carnevale takes place.
What is Venice?
100
The country that took over Venice in 1798, suppressing the Carnevale tradition.
What is Austria?
100
The Italian word for mask,
What is maschera?
100
Commedia dell'Arte.
What is a form of theater defined by masked types?
100
La vita รจ teatro, tutti in maschera
What is the theme of this year's Carnevale?
200
The month in which Carnevale usually occurs.
What is February?
200
The decade in which Carnevale started up again.
What is the 1970s?
200
The traditional reason for wearing masks.
What is hiding identity and leveling the social playing field?
200
Carlo Goldoni
What is the most important Italian author of la commedia dell'arte?
200
Burano and Murano
What are the only two cities to have continued Carnevale during the Austrian suppression?
300
The religious event that Carnevale marks the beginning of.
What is Lent?
300
In order to let the common people have fun in Roman society.
What is the reason Carnevale began?
300
La Larva
What is the most common type of mask?
300
The mask associated with Bergamo, known for being a sly servant.
What is l'Arlecchino?
300
What marked the end of Carnevale this year.
What is the sacrifice of a giant burning bull?
400
The biggest Italian Carnevale outside of Venice.
What is Viareggio?
400
1094
What is the year that the term Carnevale was first mentioned?
400
The greeting exchanged between two masked people.
What is 'Buongiorno signora maschera!'
400
Mask associate with Venice, known as a rich old merchant who is always competing with younger men for women.
What is Pantalone?
400
Svolo del Turco
What is traditionally a tight rope walker descending from the Campanile in Piazza San Marco?
500
Where Carnevale Ambrosiano is celebrated.
What is Milan?
500
The year the oldest and longest Carnevale in Italy, Putignano, began.
What is 1394?
500
The costume associate with La Larva.
What is la bauta?
500
The typical female counterpart to l'Arlecchino.
What is la Colombina?
500
The two words that Carnevale comes from.
What is 'carne' and 'levare'?
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