Cheese
Pasta
Meat & Pantry
Italy
Regions
100
This country, with over 2,500 kinds, has the highest variety of cheese in the world.
What is Italy?
100
A phrase meaning "to the tooth," which describes how pasta should be cooked.
What is "al dente"?
100
An unrefined, less processed form of olive oil.
What is extra virgin olive oil?
100
The colors of the Italian flag.
What are red, white, and green?
100
The continent Italy is located in.
What is Europe?
200
Mozzarella is traditionally made from the fresh milk of a cow or this animal.
What is a water buffalo?
200
A type of pasta consisting of soft, fat and chewy dumplings (its name in Italian translated to "lumps").
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200
A South American plant brought to Europe during the Columbian Extraction, it features in many Italian dishes, including caprese salads.
What is the tomato?
200
Name the language spoken AND the currency used in Italy.
What is Italian and the Euro?
200
PiedMONT, with its cuisine rich in veal, butter, and cheese but not much seafood, adjoins this type of geography.
What are mountains?
300
A type of Italian cheese veined with edible mold.
What is gorgonzola?
300
This shape of pasta (the Italian, not English name). 
What is farfalle?
300
One of the most commonly used herbs in Italian cuisine, especially the Genovese variety.
What is basil?
300
Name one of the six countries that border Italy.
What is Austria, France, Vatican City, San Marino, Slovenia, or Switzerland?
300
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Much of the red sauce/eggless pasta/macaroni dishes popular with Americans originate on this island province of Italy.
What is Sicily?
400
This type of cheese.
What is burrata?
400
This shape of pasta.
What is tagliatelle?
400
The process to make prosciutto di parma.
What is curing (or salt curing)?
400
Name one of the seas bordering Italy.
What is the the Ligurian Sea, the Tyrrhenian Sea, the Ionian Sea, the Adriatic Sea, or the Mediterranean Sea?
400
A dish like spaghetti Puttanesca, with it’s anchovies, olives, capers, and hot pepper, would originate from this city/region.
What is Naples or the South?
500
Vacche Rosse Parmigiano Reggiano comes from this animal that almost went extinct in the late 1900s.
What is the red cow?
500
This relatively new pasta shape (less than 100 years old) is modeled after the Bugatti's radiator.
What is radiatori?
500
If an Italian product is labeled DOP (Denominazione di Origine Protetta), it guarantees this.
What is that the food was made by local farmers and artisans using traditional methods.
500
The year the kingdoms of the peninsula unified into the one nation of Italy.
1871
500
Most so-called “Northern” Italian food served in the US originates from the regions around these two cities. (Name at least one).
What are Bologna and Parma?