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Help! I've been turned into an Italian! Quiz

Many people's names mean something: animals, plant, objects. These names can be translated literally in another language. See how some famous English or American people would be called if they were Italians. Some translations are stinkers, be warned.

A multiple-choice quiz by zordy. Estimated time: 5 mins.

Author
zordy

Time
5 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
227,090

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

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Average

Avg Score
6 / 10

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Question 1 of 10

1. I was very busy in administrating a superpower nation when suddenly I became Italian. My name is now Giorgio Cespuglio.

Answer: (Two words, or just surname .. his first name is "Giorgio"!)

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Question 2 of 10

2. From the movies to "il Cinema", my name changed into Oliviero Pietra. Who can please translate me back? Hint

Oliver Hardy

Oliver Twist

Oliver Stone

Oliver Reed

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Question 3 of 10

3. I'm a book and movie character, famous throughout the world, Italy included. That's why my name has become Vasaio. Hint

Copperfield (David)

Pan (Peter)

Sawyer (Tom)

Potter (Harry)

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Question 4 of 10

4. Everything I've written has been translated in Italian, now it's my turn: Guglielmo Scuotilancia. Who am I?

Answer: ( Two words, or just surname ... "il Bardo")

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Question 5 of 10

5. I came in Italy with my rock group whose name suddenly changed into "Le Pietre Rotolanti". My name now is Bosco. Can you please help me to find my old name? Hint

Mick Jagger

Ron Wood

Keith Richards

Charlie Watts

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Question 6 of 10

6. Geremia Ferri? This was my name while attending the Venice Film Festival, but my original name was slightly different.

Answer: ( Two words, or just surname .. The Merchant of Venice and Casanova)

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Question 7 of 10

7. If this US President had been an Italian President, his name could be changed into Lavatonnellata. Hint

Taylor

Ford

Grant

Washington

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Question 8 of 10

8. Well, this time both name and surname have become Italian in a cryptic way. Sortita Campo. Who's she?

Answer: ( Two words, or just surname ... actress: peculiar kind of nun)

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Question 9 of 10

9. Elena Caccia: can you recognize a famous actor or actress in this translated name? Hint

Alan Alda

Didier Cuche

Eileen Cache

Helen Hunt

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Question 10 of 10

10. Goffredo Giunco? My name has become very hard even to pronounce! Give me back my simple English name! Hint

Geoffrey Crayon

Geoffrey Rush

Jeff Daniels

Jeff Bridges

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. I was very busy in administrating a superpower nation when suddenly I became Italian. My name is now Giorgio Cespuglio.

Answer: George Bush

Bush can be Cespuglio (like Shrub, more or less) but maybe an Australian Bush could be Boscaglia.

2. From the movies to "il Cinema", my name changed into Oliviero Pietra. Who can please translate me back?

Answer: Oliver Stone

Olivers share meaningful names, don't they. Twist could be Contorsione, Reed could be Ancia (part of the saxophone) and Hardy could be Resistente. Nato il Quattro Luglio is "Born the Fourth of July", of course.

3. I'm a book and movie character, famous throughout the world, Italy included. That's why my name has become Vasaio.

Answer: Potter (Harry)

Copperfield could be Campo di Rame, Peter Pan could be Pier Padella and Tom Sawyer could become Tommaso Segatore.

4. Everything I've written has been translated in Italian, now it's my turn: Guglielmo Scuotilancia. Who am I?

Answer: William Shakespeare

In some old books the name of the Bard was actually translated into Guglielmo Scuotilancia or Crollalanza. Those were the times in which Descartes became Cartesius and the painter Van Wittel in Italy become Vanvitelli.

5. I came in Italy with my rock group whose name suddenly changed into "Le Pietre Rotolanti". My name now is Bosco. Can you please help me to find my old name?

Answer: Ron Wood

A typical example of the "difference of coverage of semantic areas" in different languages, Italian has two words for Wood: one is Bosco (area with trees), another is Legno (as in Made of Wood)

6. Geremia Ferri? This was my name while attending the Venice Film Festival, but my original name was slightly different.

Answer: Jeremy Irons

Jeremy has been in Venice quite often in the past few years and this is where the translation must have happened. No problems for Al Pacino.

7. If this US President had been an Italian President, his name could be changed into Lavatonnellata.

Answer: Washington

Washing-ton: quite silly translation, I admit. Anyway, Mr Taylor would be Sarto (Pope Pio X surname, by the way); Mr Grant would be Garanzia and Mr Ford would be Guado.

8. Well, this time both name and surname have become Italian in a cryptic way. Sortita Campo. Who's she?

Answer: Sally Field

Sally Field starred in The Flying Nun. Field is Campo, and Sally is a Sortita: "rush from besieged place upon enemy", according to the Oxford Illustrated Dictionary.

9. Elena Caccia: can you recognize a famous actor or actress in this translated name?

Answer: Helen Hunt

Eileen Cache does not exist; Didier Cuche is a male skier; and Alan doesn't mean Elena (but strangely Alda is an Italian female name)

10. Goffredo Giunco? My name has become very hard even to pronounce! Give me back my simple English name!

Answer: Geoffrey Rush

Rush (it. Giunco): plant of order Juncaceae used for making chair bottoms. Geoffrey Rush starred in a film about the life of Pietro Venditori...Peter Sellers, I mean.
Geoffrey Crayon is Washington Irving's pen-name and would translate into Goffredo Matita. And, finally, Jeff Bridges would become Goffredo Ponti.
Thank you, English-speaking friends!

Source: Author zordy

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