History
Erupting in 79CE this volcano covered the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum
MT. Vesuvius
True or False
ordering coffee with milk after the morning is viewed as a culinary tragedy to italians.
True
Located along the river Tiber and completely surrounding the tiny sovereign state of Vatican City, this historic city serves as the official capital of Italy.
Rome
This word translates to "Hello" and "bye" in Italian
Ciao
Legend says tossing a coin over your left shoulder with your right hand into this famous Rome landmark guarantees a return to the Eternal City
Trevi Fountain
This twin is said to have founded Rome with his brother Remus.
Romulus
Italian pasta shapes number in this many unique varieties
A. 100
B.1000
C. 750
D. 350
D. 350
Spanning across the three northern regions of Lombardy, Veneto, and Trentino-Alto Adige, this popular tourist destination is officially the largest lake in Italy by surface area.
Lake garda
In standard present indicative conjugations, this common irregular verb changes completely to vado, vai, and va in the singular.
Andare
This Italian university is widely known as the oldest in the world
University of Bologna
This group fought against the supporters of the Pope and Papacy known as the 'Guelphs' during the 12th to 14th centuries.
The Ghibellines
Despite being an international restaurant staple named after an Italian city, this rich minced-meat sauce is traditionally called ragù and paired strictly with egg-based tagliatelle—locals in the city itself consider serving it over thin, dry spaghetti a foreign invention.
Ragù Bolognese
The Clue: Located off the Tuscan coast in the Tyrrhenian Sea, this mountainous territory—famous for serving as the place of Napoleon Bonaparte's first exile in 1814—is officially the third-largest island in Italy by area.
l'Isola d'Elba
This two word past tense utilizes the auxiliary verbs 'avere' and 'essere'.
Passato Prossimo
these two countries are found within the borders of Italy.
Vatican City
San Marino
This Carthaginian general crossed the alps with elephants during the second Punic war.
Hannibal Barca
This historic Palermo street food consisting of a soft sesame bun stuffed with chopped, boiled, and lard-fried veal spleen and lung.
Pani câ Meusa
PAH-nee kah MEH-oo-sah
Rising from the Monviso peak in the Cottian Alps and flowing eastward through Turin and Piacenza before draining into the Adriatic Sea, this waterway is the longest river entirely within Italian territory.
Po river
Often introduced to bridge from indicative certainty to polite requests and softened opinions, this specific mood and tense turns "Voglio un caffè" into the standard polite formula "Vorrei un caffè".
Condizionale
this number is seen as unlucky to Italians due to the roman numeral looking similar to the word for 'i lived'
17
This 1929 treaty between Benito Mussolini and cardinal Gasparri established Vatican City as a sovereign nation.
The Lateran Pacts
While popular folklore traces this iconic Roman pasta dish to coal miners (carbonai), culinary historians widely credit its 1944 debut to Allied soldiers and Roman cooks combining American military rations of powdered eggs and bacon with local pecorino.
Carbonara
Situated entirely within the Swiss canton of Ticino along Lake Lugano, this tiny Italian municipality is an official exclave separated from the rest of Lombardy by steep mountains and Lake Ceresio.
Campione D'Italia
In a formal third-type hypothetical period (periodo ipotetico dell’irrealtà nel passato), when the condition clause is introduced by the conjunction qualora, this specific subjunctive tense is required instead of the imperfect subjunctive to express an unfulfilled past condition.
Congiuntivo Trapassato
Located in Florence on the Piazza San Pier Maggiore, this centuries-old public marble slab, historically called the pietra dello scandalo (or dell'acculata), forced bankrupt merchants to publicly drop their trousers and strike their bare bottoms against it three times while shouting a ritual renunciation.
Loggia del Mercato Nuovo (or Loggia del Porcellino)