Italian Food
This type of meat is traditionally used in many Italian dishes.
What is veal?
Which large building in Amsterdam is the only one in the city listed on the National Register of Historic Places?
What is the Amsterdam Castle?
This type of classical music was invented in Italy.
What is opera?
What are New York and/or New Jersey?
The English alphabet has 26 letters, but the Italian alphabet is a little different. How many letters are in the Italian alphabet?
What is 21? (No j, k, w, x, or y)
This Italian dish is one of Enzo's recent favorite, and is traditionally made with bacon and eggs.
What is pasta carbonara?
What is the Netherlands/Holland?
What is the Renaissance?
The Renaissance Period in Italy produced artists like Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo Simoni, which are also names of comic book characters in this series from the 1980's.
What is Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles?
The Italian language is included in this group with the Spanish, Portuguese, and French languages. (Hint: They are all derived from Latin.)
What are "romance languages"?
What is pappardelle?
Amsterdam was developed near the Mohawk River, which contains this canal (made famous in a folk song) that is part of the New York State Canal System.
What is the Erie Canal?
The Olympics have been hosted in Italy this many times.
What is 3? (1956 - Cortina d'Ampezzo; 1960 - Rome; 2006 - Turin)
This famous blue-eyed Italian American was one of the most popular and influential musical artists of the 20th century. (Born: 1915, Died: 1998).
Who is Frank Sinatra?
This word has the same meaning in both English and Italian, and it means "a prolonged feud or quarrel".
What is vendetta?
What is spaghetti and meatballs?
What museum/hall of fame was located in Amsterdam until November of 2015, when it was relocated to Wichita Falls, Texas?
What is the Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame and Museum?
In 2019, this Italian city successfully secured the bid to host the 2026 Winter Olympics.
What is Milan?
One of the most stereotypically "Italian" shows is The Sopranos, which follows the life of husband, father, and mob boss Tony Soprano, who is portrayed by this actor.
Who is James Gandolfini?
When ordering coffee in the US, you can order a latte and get a coffee with a lot of milk. But if you want the same drink in Italy, you would order this instead.
What is a cappuccino and/or caffe latte?
These three traditional main ingredients in a caprese salad represent the colors of the Italian flag (red, white, and green).
What are tomato, mozzarella, and basil?
Amsterdam's counterpart in Western Europe once used this kind of flower's bulb as a form of currency, because of their rarity and beauty.
What is tulip?
One of Shakespeare's most famous plays, Romeo and Juliet, was set in Italy. Name one other Shakespeare play set in Italy (there are 5!)
The Taming of the Shrew
The Two Gentlemen of Verona
The Merchant of Venice
Much Ado About Nothing
Julius Caesar
This Italian-American, famous for playing center field for the New York Yankees for his entire 13-year career, is often considered one of the greatest baseball players of all time. (Hint: He may be best known for his 56-game hitting streak, a record that still stands to this day.) (Born: 1914, Died: 1999)
Who is Joe DiMiaggio?
Starbucks' main drink sizes are: tall, grande, and venti. These translate into the more familiar: "small", "medium", and "large". What is ironic about the fact that Starbucks' grande size is the same thing as a "medium" size?
The Italian word grande literally translates to "large", not "medium".