Italy vs Spain
How many inhabitants has Italy got?
What is 59 million inhabitants? (60 million can be considered a valid answer)
One or more words with the same spelling and meaning in Italian and Spanish
What is biblioteca? What is libro? Even just one of them is correct
How many inhabitants live in Pistoia?
What is about 90.000 inhabitants?
Which main river flows through Andalusia?
What is Guadalquivir?
What is the Italian phrase "Che macello!"and what does it mean?
What is it "What a mess!"?
How many inhabitants has Spain got?
False friends in Spanish for Italian people
"Burro" means "donkey" in Spanish, "butter" in Italian
"Caldo" means "broth" in Spanish, "hot / warm" in Italian
"Aceite" means "olive oil" in Spanish, "vinegar" in Italian (aceto)
Who's the patron saint of Pistoia?
What is San Jacopo? (Santiago de Compostela is the place where he was buried)
What are the "cuevas"?
What are cave houses?
What is the meaning of the Italian gesture of touching one's fingers together and moving the hand up and down?
What is "What do you want?" "What are you saying?"
Name at least one active volcano in Italy.
What is Mount Etna, in Sicily (3300 meters)?
Other active volcanoes in Italy are Stromboli (Aeolian Islands, Sicily), Vulcano (Aeolian Islands, Sicily) and Vesuvio near Neaples (it distroyed Pompei and Herculaneum in 79 AD and still active - a thread for the densely populated area around Neaples)
For the Italian students in the group: pronounce the word "JERARQUIA"
The Spanish teachers decide whether the group can be awarded the full value or half the points of the question.
Where can you go skiing in Pistoia?
What is on the Mount Abetone (1388 metres)?
How many inhabitants live in Baza?
What is about 20.500 inhabitants?
What does "pagare alla romana" mean? (pay as the Romans do)
What's the name, where is it and how high is the highest mountain in Italy?
What is it Mont Blanc, Valle d'Aosta (on the border between Italy and France), 4805 meters?
For the Spanish students: pronounce the Italian word "SCOIATTOLO" (squirrel)
The Italian teachers decide whether the group can be awarded the full value or half the points of the question.
What's the shape and the colour of the typical "confetti di Pistoia"?
What is white, irregular, bumpy, curly shaped candies with an almond core?
Where can you go skiing in Baza?
Why is Tuscan bread known as "special" in Italy?
What is because it is not salted? Good for "bruschetta"
Name at least one active volcanos in Spain?
Volcanic activity in Spain is primarily concentrated in the Canary Islands. Teide is the highest and best known one, 3718 meters. Others are: Cumbre Vjeja (La Palma) and Timanfaya (Lanzarote)
Italian students pronounce: "No hay mal que cien años dure, ni cuerpo que lo resista."
Spanish students pronounce: "Pistoia fa le spade, Firenze fa le borse.
Both Italian and Spanish teachers evaluate the performances of the students in the group (full or half the value of the question)
Name at least one of the typical dishes of Pistoia?
What is zuppa di pane (bread soup) / maccheroni sull'anatra (pasta with duck sauce) / pappardelle al sugo di lepre (flat pasta with hare sauce)
Who is the patron saint of Baza?
What is Virgen de la Piedad? (Our lady of piety)
How is the statue of San Jacopo (on the facade of Pistoia Cathedral) dressed on July 25th every year?