Geography
Italy has experienced this many significant earthquakes since 1900.
What is 125?
The capital of Sicily
What is Palermo?
The origin of Spaghetti Bolognese
What is Bologna?
The word for thank you in Italian.
What is Grazie(a)?
The famous sculptor and painter who created the David and the Sistine Chapel ceiling
Who is Michelangelo Buonarroti? (1475–1564)
This island is connected to by a ferry boat that carries a passenger train on it.
What is Sicily?
This second smallest capital city located in the region is famous for this famous cheese.
What is Fontina?
Fun Fact - Aosta capital city of the Aosta Valley.
The city known as the birthplace of pizza
What is Naples?
The Italian word is used for hello and goodbye.
What is “Ciao”?
What physicist and astronomer is known as the father of modern science.
Who is Galileo Galilei (1564–1642
The volcano that buried Pompeii in 79 A.D.
What is Mt. Vesuvius?
It is known as the Capital or Eternal City
What is Rome?
Fun Fact : It is over 2500 years old.
This is the average amount of pasta consumed by an Italian living in Italy per year.
What is 60lbs?
The Italian definition for salted or cured meats.
What is salami?
The Roman dictator who played a critical role in the demise of the Roman Republic.
Who is Julius Caesar? (100 BC–44 BC)
The world’s smallest country ______and is located in ________.
What is the Vatican? What is Rome?
This capital city of Umbria is home to the iconic Baci Perugina chocolates, loved worldwide for their delicious hazelnut filling and romantic love notes.
What is Perugia?
The first ice cream machine was created in 1686, by this Sicilian Fisherman who was also the first person to sell gelato in public.
Who is Francesco Procopio dei Coltelli?
These are the three top languages spoken in Italy.
What is Italian, English sand French?
A famous political philosopher and author of The Prince.
Who is Niccolò Machiavelli? (1469–1527)
Italy is surrounded by these 4 countries.
What is France, Switzerland, Austria and Slovenia?
This famous capital city is known as the historic home of Fiat, the city is a powerhouse of Italian industry, also featuring a renowned National Automobile Museum.
What is Turin? Capital of Piedmont.
A traditional, historic Florence street food featuring the fourth stomach of the cow (abomasum).
What is Lampredotto?
Fun fact - The bread is dipped briefly into the cooking broth, filled with the sliced lampredotto, and topped with salsa verde mmmmmm
This 15th-century Italian explorer was the first European to recognize that North and South America were separate continents and not part of Asia.
Who is Amerigo Vespucci?
Fun Fact: America was named after this explorer?
A famous Venetian merchant and explorer who traveled along the Silk Road.
Who is Marco Polo? (1254–1324)