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1. ANIMALS: the Lagotto Romagnolo is an Italian gundog breed. Besides hunting game, what else is it used for?
2. BRAIN TEASERS: 'barium' is an anagram of which Italian region?
3. CELEBRITIES: which Italian actress, born in Rome in 1952, is the daughter of Swedish actress Ingrid Bergman?
4. ENTERTAINMENT: in which type of Italian play would you find the stock characters Colombina, Pantalone and Arlecchino?
5. FOR CHILDREN: which fairy tale character, created by Carlo Collodi, was a wooden puppet who dreamed of becoming a real boy?
6. GENERAL: which hand sign, associated with metal music, was originally used in Italy to ward off the evil eye?
7. GEOGRAPHY: what is the highest mountain in Italy?
8. HISTORY: who was the first Prime Minister of the united Kingdom of Italy?
9. HOBBIES: which hard and, frankly, smelly cows' milk cheese is produced in the regions of Reggio Emilia, Modena, Parma, and parts of Modena and Mantua?
10. HUMANITIES: which art movement, with key figures such as Carlo Carra, Gino Severini and Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, came into being in Italy in the early 20th century?
11. LITERATURE: what was unusual about the Italian writer Italo Calvino's 1979 novel 'If on a Winter's Night a Traveler'?
12. MOVIES: for which film did the Italian actress Sophia Loren win her first Academy Award?
13. MUSIC: Italy won the 2021 Eurovision Song Contest. The winning song was 'Zitti e buoni', but which group sang it?
14. PEOPLE: of these four Italian artists, which one was primarily a sculptor? (I'm not sure he did machines, though.)
15. RELIGION: which female saint is a patron saint of Italy and Rome, and also sickness, nurses and miscarriages?
16. SCI/TECH: which of these devices was invented by an Italian?
17. SPORT: which manager, formerly of Manchester City and Inter Milan, led the Italian team to victory in Euro 2020?
18. TELEVISION: in 2017, a clip from a 1939 cartoon version of 'Goldilocks and the Three Bears', in which the Three Bears were portrayed as stereotypical Italians, went viral. The clip shows Papa Bear smacking his forehead in horror and exclaiming that somebody has touched his food. What did Goldilocks steal in this version instead of porridge?
19. VIDEO GAMES: in which series of fighting games would you find Voldo, a mute Italian warrior who wears a mask and fights with katars?
20. World: the Italian national men's football team are known as 'Gli Azzurri' in their native tongue. What does this mean in English?
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