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
Arianna has a meeting with her boss, Luca, to talk about the increase in printing costs and Marika's role in the issue.
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 Tuscan
This beautiful church is worth a stop on the way from Pisa to the seaside. Arianna shares her discovery of it. The ceramic bowls that decorate the church are technically known as “bacini ceramici” in Italian, which could be translated as “ceramic basins.” Art historians who write in English, however, also use the term “bacini” for these tin-glazed works.
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
Marika's goof-up and an increase in printing costs make Arianna's job all the harder. Fortunately, she and Adriano may be able to work something out.
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 Tuscan
Arianna shows us around the Cathedral Square, where the bell tower, better known as the Leaning Tower of Pisa, is located.
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
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
The contestants are having major problems with historical chronology, and Carlo Conti is frankly a bit shocked.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
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.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Contestants give true or false answers to questions that are all over the board, and sometimes amusing.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Nicola is unsure on several pairings, but Francesco Paolo knows his stuff.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Caterina is quizzed on the subjunctive and a new contestant, Nicola, is introduced.
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