Italian Lingo
Celebrated Cities
Famous Italianos
When in Rome...
Made in Italy
100
Enjoy this super smooth ice cream tonight.
What is gelato?
100
Roaming around this capital city, do as the natives do.
What is Rome?
100
This educator created a teaching method that has been used all over the world since 1907. You may have gone to one of her kindergartens!
Who is Maria Montessori?
100
Throw a coin with your right hand over your left shoulder in to this fountain.
What is the Trevi Fountain?
100
Invented in Florence, the first type of this recital set the barre and was tutu beautiful for words.
What is ballet?
200
Hello or Goodbye
What is Ciao!
200
This city is built on a group of islands in a lagoon. The islands are linked by canals full of gondolas. The Grand Canal is this city's main street.
What is Venice?
200
This artist is most famous for his haunting portrait of woman who follows you with her eyes.
Who is Leonardo Da Vinci?
200
Give this amphitheater a big thumbs up! Built in the year 80, it's the largest one ever built!
What is the Colosseum?
200
The earliest one of these musical plays was Dafne written around 1597 by Jacopo Per.
What is opera?
300
Thank you
What is Grazie?
300
This city leans on the fame of a tower that was built in the 12th century.
What is Pisa?
300
Look up while in the Sistine Chapel and you'll see this artist's most famous paintings.
Who is Michelangelo?
300
When ordering pasta in Rome, try this red sauce, ____________ al Casaletto, named for the betrayed best friend of Brutus, once the Emperor of the Roman Empire.
Who is Julius Caesar?
300
Alessandro Volta first constructed this power source in 1800.
What is an electrochemical battery?
400
You are welcome
What is Prego?
400
This tiny city within a city is home to Jorge Mario Bergoglio, now known as il Papa.
What is the Vatican City?
400
This astronomer has been called the father of the scientific method. He spent the last years of his life under house arrest, by order of the Pope, for his theories, including that the earth obits the sun.
Who is Galileo?
400
Don't steam an artichoke in Rome's Jewish Ghetto. Do this to make some crispy Nonna Betta.
What is fry?
400
This kind of engine was invented in 1997 by Massimo Marchiori, making Google possible.
What is a search engine?
500
Goodbye, Rome!
What is Arrivederci, Roma?
500
The capital of Tuscany, this city is the birthplace of the Renaissance where tourists flock to see the Cathedral dome designed by Brunelleschi in the early 1400s.
What is Florence?
500
This inventor shared the Nobel Prize 1909 for his work on wireless, radio telegraphy.
Who was Marconi?
500
Take this way to Brindisi, the road named after Appius Claudius Caecus.
What is the Appian Way?
500
This four stringed instrument first appeared in Renaissance Italy. Antonio Stradivari perfected it in the 1700s.
What is the violin?
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