Listed below are ten bilingual questions concerning Italian and Italian-American culture, taken from the best selling bilingual compendium, Heritage Italian-American Style. The books 1776 fact-filled questions cover topics from the following categories: food, music, entertainment, art, science, literature, history, geography, business, and Roman civilization. With an index of over 2,700 entries, this book covers the numerous contributions made by the Italian culture to western civilization, in an entertaining bilingual question and answer format. This book is must reading for any serious student of Italian language and culture.
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125) Wild suckling pig, skewered and roasted beside an open fire of juniper mastic and olive wood, (whose aromatic properties impart a unique flavor to the meat), is a specialty of the sheperds of what Italian region?

Il maialino (o porchetta) arrostito allo spiedo su un fuoco aperto di legno d’olivo (che da’alla carne le sue proprietà aromatiche), è una specialità di quale regione italiana?
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281)Based on a true story of an Italian-American police officer, Al Pacino played a narcotics officer in a story that revealed police corruption in New York City. *What was the name of the powerful 1973 movie that earned Al Pacino an Oscar nomination?

Ispirata alla vera storia di un agente di polizia italo americano, Al Pacino recitò la parte di un poliziotto della sezione narcotici in un film che denunciava la corruzione della poliza a New York. *Qual'è il titolo di questo film del 1973 per cui Al Pacino fu candidato a un Oscar?
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661)Hailed at the time as the greatest writer since the Renaissance, this Italian author is remembered for his masterpiece, I Promessi Sposi (The Betrothed), written in 1827. The importance of this modern-style novel was that it defined the Italian language as we know it today, and helped to form a unified Italy. Such was his stature in Italian society that, at his death in 1873, Giuseppe Verdi wrote his brilliant Requiem in this author’s honor. *Identify this author.     a) Italo Fellino b) Enrico Scatena c) Alessandro Manzoni

Considerato il più grande scrittore vissuto dal tempo del Rinascimento, questo autore italiano è famoso per il suo capolavoro I promessi sposi, scritto nel 1827. L'importanza di questo romanzo moderno sta nell'aver definito la lingua italiana come la conosciamo oggi e, così facendo, aiutò l'unificazione culturale italiana. La stima che l'Italia aveva per lui era tale che alla sua morte, nel 1873, Giuseppe Verdi compose il celebre Requiem in suo onore. *Identificate l'autore:
a) Italo Fellino b) Enrico Scatena c) Alessandro Manzoni
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974) During his first term as mayor, crime in his city dropped 41 percent, the largest sustained decrease in the nation and the lowest rate in this city since the 1960’s. *Identify this Italian-American mayor or the city he presides over. (Since the events of September 11, 2001, he has come to symbolize the undaunted and heroic spirit of Americans.)

Durante il suo primo mandato come sindaco, il tasso di criminalità in questa città calò del 41%, il più basso dagli anni '60. *Identificate questo sindaco italo americano o la città da lui guidata. (Dopo gli attentati dell'11 settembre 2001 è diventato un simbolo dello spirito eroico americano).
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1013) Born Harry Christopher Carabina, he was a popular baseball radio announcer from 1945 until his death in 1997. He achieved celebrity status as the Chicago Cubs’ radio announcer by singing Take Me Out To The Ballgame with Wrigley Field Cub fans. *Who was this popular baseball commentator?

Il suo vero nome era Harry Christopher Carabina e fu un famoso cronista radiofonico di baseball dal 1945 fino alla sua morte nel 1997. Diventò una celebrità come cronista radio dei Chicago Cubs cantando Take Me Out to the Ball Game con i fan. *Chi era?
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1771) She is one of the most famous and important fashion designers in the world today.
Her collections are characterized by the use of distinctive colors and innovative materials. *Identify this stylistic genius who, with her husband, built their company into one of the world’s leading fashion groups.

Questa donna è una delle stiliste più conosciute al mondo. Le sue collezioni sono caratterizzate da usi innovative di materiali e colori. *Identificate questo genio dello stile che, insieme a suo marito, ha sviluppato una delle aziende moda più importanti a livello internazionale.
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19) The characters of this work by Puccini are said to be fairly accurate portraits of artists and others of the Latin Quarter in Paris who were friends of Henri Muger during his youthful days as a struggling writer. *Identify this popular Puccini opera.

Si dice che I personaggi di quest’opera di Puccini siano fedeli riproduzioni di artisti del Quartiere Latino di Parigi, amici dello scrittore Henri Murger negli anni difficili che precedettero la sua fama. *Identificate l’opera in questione.
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1700) When the Second Triumvirate was dissolved after the battle of Actium, Augustus Caesar gradually assumed the titles of all the major offices. His reign is sometimes called the principate, from princeps, the title he favored. *Translate the meaning of princeps.

Quando si dissolse il secondo Triumvirato, dopo la battaglia di Azio, Cesare Augusto assunse gradualmente tutte le magiori funzioni. Il suo regno si chiamava anche principato, dalla parola princeps, il suo titolo preferito. *Cosa traduce la parola princeps?
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1654) The most famous mathematical equation on earth, E = MC2  , was actually formulated and published by an Italian from Vicenza two years before Albert Einstein’s major paper in 1905. This Italian did not discover the theory of relativity, but there is no doubt that he was the first to use the equation while speculating about ether in the life of the universe. * Identify this forgotten Italian. a) Olinto De Pretto  b) Umberto Bartocci  c) Michele Besso

La formula matematica più famosa del mondo, E=MC2, fu postulata e pubblicata da un vicentino due anni prima quella di Einstein nel 1905. Questo italiano non scoprì la teoria della relatività ma è fuori di dubbio che fosse stato il primo ad usare questa equazione nelle sue speculazioni sull’etere nella vita dell’universo. *Identificate questo scienziato dimenticato. a) Olinto De Pretto  b) Umberto Bartocci c) Michele Besso
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417) Giulio Romano, one of the founders of Mannerism, and an eminent painter and architect in his own right, was the principal heir to one of the greatest artists of Italy. It is clear that he finished a number of works left incomplete at this master’s death. *Name this artist.  a) Raphael (Raffaello) b) Titian (Tiziano) c) Bramante

Giulio Romano, uno dei fondatori del Manierismo e un eccellente pittore ed architetto, fu il principale erede spirituale di uno dei più grandi artisti italiani. Fu proprio Romano a completare alcune opere rimaste incompiute alla morte del suo maestro. *Qual’è il nome di questo artista?         a) Raffaello b) Tiziano c) Bramante

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QUIZ ANSWERS:

125) Sardinia (Sardegna)

281) Serpico

661) c) Alessandro Monzoni

974) Mayor (Sindaco) Rudolph W. Giuliani / New York City

1013) Harry Carry

1771) Miuccia Prada

19) La Bohème

1700) First citizen (Primo cittadino)

1654) a) Olinto De Pretto

417) a) Raffaello