L'Eredità (The Inheritance) is a wildly popular game show in Italy. Carlo Conti serves as the host, quizzing contestants on topics ranging from historical events to the many ways mouthwash can be used. Contestants come from all over Italy and we get to hear about their backgrounds. Conti has also been a presenter on variety shows, emceed Miss Italy beauty pageants, and been artistic director for the Sanremo Music Festival.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Ilaria and Matteo are the new contestants. Ilaria is quizzed on a list of Italian male celebrities and has to decide whether they're actors or singers.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Carlo presents Matteo with a list of countries and asks him whether they're situated in the Atlantic or the Pacific.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Carlo presents Tiziana with a list of animals and she has to decide whether they have hooves or not. Caterina, a freelance art professional from the Veneto, enters the game.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Caterina is quizzed on the subjunctive and a new contestant, Nicola, is introduced.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Nicola is unsure on several pairings, but Francesco Paolo knows his stuff.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Contestants give true or false answers to questions that are all over the board, and sometimes amusing.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
The contestants are having major problems with historical chronology, and Carlo Conti is frankly a bit shocked.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Today's big question revolves around TV personalities and how they got their start in the business. Caterina gets the jolt, like a gong, on that line of questioning. Later, Ilaria draws a blank on Giacomo Leopardi's poem, “The Lonely Sparrow.”
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Caterina, Francescopaolo, and Matteo are at the “bivio” [fork in the road] stage of the game and have a fifty-fifty chance of selecting the right answer. What makes it fun but hard is that many words have double or triple meanings.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
St. Luke, Giulia Farnese, Leonardo Di Caprio, and Lionel Messi are among the subjects touched on in this segment.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Francescopaolo and Matteo have reached the part of the game known as the “duel.” They go head-to-head on an array of topics, including a cartoon series and Dante's favorite thing to eat.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Carlo has a fun anecdote about Dante, the poet's love of eggs, and his prodigious memory. The winner is anointed and both contestants, Francescopaolo and Matteo, have a moment in the limelight.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Francescopaolo is at the guillotine stage of the game. This means that for every wrong answer that he gives, his winnings are halved.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Francescopaolo has to write down a word that links the five guillotine words together. Francescopaolo and his sister have different ideas about the word.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Carlo introduces us to his teacher assistants, and as its Christmastime, they're wearing Santa-inspired costumes. Alessandra and Massimiliano are the two contestants.
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