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.

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.”

Daniela explains three situations in which the remote past may be used and gives us examples of each situation. But don't worry, this tense is not mandatory and Daniela suggests the passato prossimo (present perfect) as a valid alternative. Note: The passato prossimo is constructed like the English present perfect tense (with a helping verb and past participle), but is used more like the English past simple.

Anna and Marika are hard at work with their mortar and pestle, making some delicious pesto. As they work, they give us some extra information about their new tool.

The contestants are having major problems with historical chronology, and Carlo Conti is frankly a bit shocked.

Daniela explains how to conjugate the remote past of the verbs avere (to have) and prendere (to take).

Contestants give true or false answers to questions that are all over the board, and sometimes amusing.

Marika and Anna go through the list of ingredients needed to make a Ligurian specialty — pasta with pesto sauce.

Nicola is unsure on several pairings, but Francesco Paolo knows his stuff.

Caterina is quizzed on the subjunctive and a new contestant, Nicola, is introduced.

Because Anna knows the subject backwards and forwards, she volunteers to take the teacher's quiz on Liguria, but that doesn't help much with her grade.

Daniela discusses the verbs finire [to finish] and essere [to be] in the remote past tense.

Gianni explores the interior of the abandoned villa, imagining what it might have been like before.

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.

Carlo presents Matteo with a list of countries and asks him whether they're situated in the Atlantic or the Pacific.