English Words of Italian Origin

fascism is not "right-wing" in any sense. It is nationalist socialism, which is a left-wing ideology. The opposite (or equivalent on the right) would be libertarianism or, in the extreme, anarchy.

Not really... althought your explanation makes sense, it's just not contemporary. Right=liberal and Left=equal, socialistic was made up in 1789 and has made some changes since then. Nowadays, you can be for example left and liberal at the same time.

Nobody should be offended by Fascism being correctly identified as right-wing. Just like nobody should be offended by Communism being identified as left-wing.

Patorjamesriddle, you are mistaken. Bakunin himself, the founding ideologist of anarchism, was a member of the First International.
What defines the " left" is the intended goal (equality among all citizens), not the means used to get those goals (state control of all the production means as in communism, or abolition of state as in anarchism) .

There is nothing liberal about fascism. Also, "liberal" is not a bad word.

The left-right scale is overrated, in my opinion. There's a wide variety of factors that characterize an ideology. Although, to keep it simple, I'd recommend a 2-dimensional scheme: economic left (government-regulated) - right (free market) and social left (liberal) - right (conservative). According to this scheme, fascism is economically left-wing and socially far-right.

Can we please just take a few seconds to confirm/get sources before we start disputing the QMs questions? A quick search indicates that fascism is overwhelmingly considered a right-wing ideology based on traditionally left-wing ideologies mixed with right-wing ideologies. http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Is+fascism+right+or+left+wing%3F

Once I saw fascism being described as "right wing" in the quiz, I was ready to start a fight in the comments. I'm happy to see that many people beat me to it. Anyway, I highly recommend you check out this video that addresses whether fascism is left wing or right wing. It's obviously biased, but it provides a lot of interesting information and you'll learn a lot. https://youtu.be/m6bSsaVL6gA

Missed pesto >.< 19/20

Could prima donna not count for "high profile female singer"?

I thought you wanted a PERSON...so i put Madonna

actually, in Italian the word "primadonna" as a single expression can be found, even if not so often.

can't spell archipelago

Archipelago is a greek word, not italian.

But the word archipelago came to English from the Italian 'arcipelago' in 1500s. So it fits this quiz.

archipelago is a greek word, archi (αρχι) = leading + pelago(s) (πελαγος) = sea

General note: if you put italian names, please use all italian names, not only some. (Fascism->Fascismo; Archipelago->Arcipelago) (Piccolo is used in Italian, but it's a very technical name. You should use also Ottavino, that is the name it's knowed in Italy). Also: -Pistacchio needs the double "c" -Grotto doesn't exist. The term is Grotta

But this quiz about ENGLISH words of Italian origin....so it would not be appropriate to use the Italian version. Some words, like piccolo, just happen to be the same in both English and Italian.

I agree that english spelling should be used, nevertheless I think seveneleven is right about his notation that the correspondence with actual spoken Italian is not so straightforward.

You should accept alternate spellings of archipelago. It's a difficult word to spell.

A pretty nice quiz. A couple of comments - how about Fascist for Fascism? They can be used fairly interchangeably. Also, as others pointed out, archipelago is actually not Italian. I got it, but it doesn't quite belong. And believe it or not, Zucchini isn't Italian either - it is American, and actually fairly recent too, based on cross-breeding different strains of squash to get it. (Yeah, one of those trivia nerd things Jetpunk addicts know!) But again, thanks for posting the quiz!

Zucca is the Italian word for pumpkin/squash and zucchino/zucchina (zucca + ina = little) are diminutive forms, becoming zucchini/zucchine in the plural. Zucchino, the masculine form (zucchini in the plural), is the first form to be documented in writing. In Italy varieties of squash typically called "zucchini" were developed many generations after their introduction from the Americas. In all probability, this occurred in the very late 19th century, and the word came back to the US in the 1920s along with zucchinis themselves. As for archipelago, it is an English word from the early 16th century, which was derived from Italian arcipelago, which was derived from Greek arkhi- ‘chief’ + pelagos ‘sea.’ Its usage in English came from Italian, not Greek roots. This is especially apparent because of the timing of the words adoption - during the Renaissance when Italian was at its widest usage as a lingua franca. Seriously people - a 10 second Google search shows that Quizmaster is correct.

"Fascist" and "Fascism" cannot be used interchangeably. Fascism is an ideology. Fascist is an adjective or a person who supports fascism.

Zucchini is an American word of Italian origin. It isn't used in proper English

What rubbish.

I always confuse Fascism and Marxism, I will type Marxism and then blank on fascism EVERYTIME!!!!

20/20 with 1:53 to go. I'm a maestro with Italian words.

Should accept pistaCChio and grottA

Can you accept 'tiramasu' please?

Whoa, there. Might want to dismount from that high horse there, Sparky. "Tiramasu" is simply a misspelling. And an understandable one, at that. There are far more egregiously-misspelled words that are accepted on JetPunk. It sounds like a reasonable request to me.

If you handed your local baker a note with a list of goodies you wanted, and one of them was "tiramasu", do you really think he would have no idea what you're talking about?

Awesome

No.

First of all, you are wrong. Second of all, it's "Quizmaster" with one z.

Is there a glitch? I got 18 but it said I got 19!?

I don't think a grotto has to be exclusively artificial.