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Answer
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What is the highest mountain in Italy?
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Monte Bianco
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What mini-country is located within Rome?
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Vatican City
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What is the longest river in Italy?
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Po
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In what Italian island is Cagliari is the most populous city?
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Sardinia
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What sea is located between that island and the Italian Peninsula?
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Tyrrhenian Sea
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What mountain range makes the northern borders of Italy?
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Alps
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What type of summer squash was developed in northern Italy in the 19th century?
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Zucchini
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What is the most populous region of Italy?
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Lombardy
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To what island was Napoleon exiled in 1814?
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Elba
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What is the most populous city in Sicily?
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Palermo
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What volcano, near Naples, destroyed Pompeii in 79 AD?
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Mount Vesuvius
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Into what fountain in Rome do tourists throw coins - an estimated 3,000 euros are thrown into the fountain each day?
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Trevi Fountain
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What city in Northern Italy is home to the world's oldest university?
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Bologna
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What language do the majority in the autonomous province of South Tyrol?
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German
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In what region is Rome located?
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Lazio
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What is the Italian name of Florence?
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Firenze
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What non-European country has the highest total number of Italian speakers outside of Italy?
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Brazil
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In what city was Christopher Columbus born?
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Genoa
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What famous dessert is made with ladyfingers and its name means "pick me up"?
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Tiramisu
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What city in Italy's heel was the end point of the Appian Way?
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Brindisi
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