History
This is when Germany officially celebrates the Day of German Unity following the decades-long division between the east and west. (provide date, month, and original year)
When is 3. Oktober 1990?
"When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When ou sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity."
Who is Albert Einstein? (born in Germany)
What are the two largest Italian islands?
Sicily and Sardinia
Schadenfreude
What is "taking joy in other's misfortune"?
What is true: The Tarantella is a Southern Italian folk dance originating in the Middle Ages, with the original purpose as a ritual cure for "Tarantism" (manic dancing caused by a spider bite)
Founded in Italy in 1088 the "Mother of Universities" is the oldest European university in continuous operation. Famous historical figures taught here were such as Nicolaus Coperinicus
The University of Bologna
"The path to paradise begins in hell"
Dante Alghieri (Florentine poet)
Germany shares borders with this many countries. (steal + 200 extra points if you name all correctly)
What is nine? (France, Switzerland, Austria, Liechtenstein, the Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, Poland, Czech Republic)
Abbiocco
Drowsiness a person feels after eating a large meal
True or false: there are more castles in Germany than there are McDonald's in the U.S.
What is true? (about 13,680 McDonald's vs over 20,000 castles)
This is the date Italy celebrates as its unification in which Victor Emmanuel II was made King of Italy and united the peninsula. (Date and year)
"We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love."
Who is Sigmund Freud? (Austrian founder of Psychoanalysis)
Approximately this much of Austria's land area is covered by the Alps. (percentage)
What is 62-65%?
In bocca al Lupo
In the mouth of the Wolf (used to mean "good luck")
True or False: the Roman Empire was the second largest empire recorded
What is: False (The second largest empire was the Mongol Empire (9.27 million sq mi to Rome's 1.93 million sq mi) coming in second to the British Empire)
When east and west Germany were divided during the Cold War, this city served as the provisional capital of West Germany.
What is Bonn?
"Wisdom is the daughter of experience"
Leonardo DaVinci (Italian "Renaissance Man" (painter/inventor))
Approximately this much of Germany's land area is covered by forests. (Fraction or percentage)
What is 32.68% or about 1/3?
Fernweh
What is "an intense longing for distant places"? (opposite of homesickness)
True or false: it is a German wedding tradition for guests to kiss the bride when the groom leaves the room, and vice versa.
What is false? (This is a Swedish tradition! Germans have a tradition of Brautstehlen: groom's friends steal the bride, and the groom must find them and pay for his friends' drinks)
This city was the first recorded metropolis to record a population of 1 million.
"You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star."
Who is Friedrich Nietzsche? (German philosopher)
At its peak, what is the percentage of Europe's total land mass did the Roman Empire rule over?
What is 30%
Treppenwitz
What is a "staircase joke"? (a witty comeback you think of after the situation/argument has passed, hits you in the stairwell on your way out)
True or False: Turino (Turin) was the first capital of Unified Italy.
What is: True (Turino was the first capital of Italy from 1861 to 1865. The capital was then moved to Florence and then finally to Rome)