Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. Upon arrival, you start up a conversation with somebody who seems familiar from your school textbooks. Your nervousness gets to you, and struggling to figure out something to ask this man, you ask "How did you get here", to which he replies "I walked, I always walk or march. I'll always remember walking in to Rome back in 1922.". "That's it", you think. Who is this man?
2. So as you get brought to your table, your hostess shows you past two tables with only one person sitting at them. The next table has two people, and the next three, the next five, the next eight. The table he seats you at has twelve, and as you sit, he says, "Good, with you that's thirteen. Now to seat the next twenty-one people." You think, "There's only one person who would sit us this way, and that's _______."
3. As you sit down to eat, you can't help but notice the guy sitting beside you keeps staring up at the ceiling. Eventually, your curiosity gets to you, and you ask if he is all right, to which he replies "I painted a ceiling before, made it look all good too. Took four years, I can't help but look up now, expecting to see my work". What Renaissance man is sitting next to you?
4. As you're about to dig into an enormous helping of gelato, your neighbour across the table spits his mouthful out. "I must have a word with the chef!" he exclaims. "This is Genoan gelato. I must eat only Florentine food, and I'm willing to pay very good money to have it modeled after my face!"
Who is this "magnificent" ruler of the 1440s?
5. As he was sitting enjoying an antipasto with pepperoni, olives, chunks of various cheeses and cubes of a specific meat, this mariner said, "This plate make me so homesick". Who was he?
6. A loud slurping sound from the other side of the table alarms you of the presence of nondescript young man rapidly gulping his minestrone soup. His tablemates seem repulsed by his bad manners, and draw back, as though afraid that they might be the next to be eaten. The good-natured man notices their expressions and concedes, "Alas! I suppose it is better to be feared than loved, if one cannot be both." After saying this he resumes eating.
Who was this philosopher, best known for a political tract giving advice to a royal ruler?
7. For some of us who aren't in to the exotic and expensive foods, you have a more basic table with different dishes. The Italian inventor, known as the "Father of Modern Radio" visited here and, fittingly, walked away with what on his plate?
8. After your lovely dinner, the evening's entertainment began. You were blinded by being able to hear, in the flesh, one of the internationally best-known singers since 1994 when he won the Newcomers section of the Sanremo Music Festival. Who is this marvellous tenor?
9. "Bring on the opera!" someone shouts from behind you. The strains of Wagnerian overtures burst forth from the stage, to the cacophonous sounds of whistles and hisses. Someone hollers, "This is the land of opera! Dare you bring in that noise? Play some Puccini!" With that request, the overture of one of Giacomo Puccini's most famous works luxuriously emanates from the stage. Of these four, which will the opera NOT be?
10. To end the night, four phenomenally talented opera singers took to the stage to do some of their trademark songs. You have Maria Callas, Enrico Caruso, Montserrat Caballe, and Nellie Melba all attempting to outstage the rest. But soon the stage director storms on and says to three of them, "How did you get in here? You're not Italiani!" and drags them all off in embarrassment. That left whom to finish the gig all alone?
Source: Author
George95
This quiz was reviewed by FunTrivia editor
bloomsby before going online.
Any errors found in FunTrivia content are routinely corrected through our feedback system.
