Italy

Question 1

What does minestrone mean?

Answer 1

Vegetable soup

Question 2

What does antipasto mean?

Answer 2

Appetizers

Question 3

What is the north of Italy like in their people, type of land, and sauce type?

Answer 3

Fertile land, a large wealthy population, cream

Question 4

What is the south of Italy like in their people, type of land, and sauce type?

Answer 4

Dry land, a smaller poorer population, tomato sauce

Question 5

What is the climate like?

Answer 5

Predominantly Mediterranean, Alpine in far north, dry in south

Question 6

What is the terrain like?

Answer 6

Mostly rugged and mountainous, with some plains, and coastal lowlands

Question 7

What are four of their natural resources?

Answer 7

Coal, mercury, zinc, and marble

Question 8

What are some natural hazards of Italy? (6)

Answer 8

Landslides, mudflows, avalanches, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and flooding

Question 9

What is their life expectancy at birth?

Answer 9

81.86 years

Question 10

What is their main/state religion? (%)

Answer 10

90% roman catholic (they have the vatican)

Question 11

What is their capital city?

Answer 11

Rome

Question 12

What and when is their national holiday?

Answer 12

Republic day on June second

Question 13

What are four of their agricultural products?

Answer 13

Olives, grapes, grain, fish

Question 14

What are three of their industries?

Answer 14

Tourism, machinery, foot wear

Question 15

What problem does their long coastline and developed economy cause?

Answer 15

Tens of thousands of illegal immigrants from southwestern Europe and northern Africa

Question 16

Where do they get their drugs and what related money problem do they have?

Answer 16

Cocaine from Latin America, heroin from Southwestern Asia and money laundering by organized crime and smuggling

Question 17

What are the two things that tell us about Italy’s history?

Answer 17

Records- poets and philosophers

Artifacts- remains of ancient cities

Question 18

Who settled northern Italy?

Answer 18

Etruscans

Question 19

Who brought lasagna to Italy? (Southern)

Answer 19

Greeks

Question 20

Who started to use dried pasta and why?

Answer 20

Arabs to preserve flour and make cooking on long trips easier

Question 21

Who introduced spaghetti into Italy and where did it originally come from?

Answer 21

Marco Polo, china

Question 22

How do we know that pasta was very valuable?

Answer 22

It was listed in wills

Question 23

Who learned how to get salt and how/why did they get it?

Answer 23

Romans, sea water, sheep

Question 24

How do we know that salt was valuable?

Answer 24

It was used in trade throughout Italy (Etruscans in north, greeks in south) and was given as a salary to soldiers

Question 25

What was established during the Renaissance?

Answer 25

Cooking schools

Question 26

What would be the centerpiece at a fancy banquet?

Answer 26

A sculpture made or butter, ice, or sugar made by famous sculptors, architects, and artists

Question 27

What change in manners occurred during the Renaissance?

Answer 27

Forks instead of fingers

Question 28

What was common before napkins, what was the first purpose of napkins?

Answer 28

Many layers of tablecloth, to take leftovers home

Question 29

What fat is common in the north/south?

Answer 29

Butter north, olive oil south

Question 30

What fabric are their tablecloths made of?

Answer 30

Linen

Question 31

What provides color?

Answer 31

A bowl of fruit or wine

Question 32

What are three appetizers served? (Notes)

Answer 32

Cheese, sausage, loaves of bread

Question 33

What other thing is a common sight on Italian tables? (since meals last so long)

Answer 33

Toothpicks

Question 34

How are their meals eaten?

Answer 34

Stages (one at a time)

Question 35

What is the order of most meals? (7 with drinks)

Answer 35

Plate (get you ready for soup), soup, pasta, meat or fish with a side of vegetables, dessert is fruit, wine is drunk (diluted for kids), last may be espresso

Question 36

What does pasta mean?

Answer 36

Paste

Question 37

What does aldente mean?

Answer 37

To the tooth

Question 38

What type of cheese is the prized grating cheese that is firm and aged with a mellow, slightly salty taste?

Answer 38

Parmesan

Question 39

What type of cheese is more aggressive than Parmesan and is also a firm grating cheese?

Answer 39

Romano

Question 40

What type of cheese is fresh, moist, bland and unsalted that is comparable to cottage cheese?

Answer 40

Ricotta

Question 41

What type of cheese is known as the pizza cheese and has a rubbery, stringy texture?

Answer 41

Mozzarella