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	Hint	Answer	% Correct
C	This explorer was born in Genoa in 1451	Christopher Columbus	94%
J	While many people think that this was Caesar's given name, it was actually his family name	Julius	91%
M	A number of his works of painting, sculpture, and architecture rank among the most famous in existence	Michelangelo	88%
F	Far-right political philosophy espoused by Mussolini	Fascism	87%
R	European cultural "rebirth" that started in Florence in the late 1300s	The {Renaissance}	86%
O	Form of musical theater that started in Italy around 1600	Opera	85%
E	Island where Napoleon was exiled	Elba	82%
T	First capital city of Italy from 1861 to 1865, home to Fiat automobiles	Turin	81%
P	Roman temple to all the gods, now a church	Pantheon	77%
X	How an ancient Roman would have written the number 33	XXXIII	75%
D	Title given to the leader of Venice	Doge	70%
L	These Germanic people ruled Italy from 568-774 and gave their name to the region in which Milan is located	Lombards	70%
K	Victor Emmanuel or Umberto, for example	King	69%
Y	Country invaded by Italy in 1941	Yugoslavia	66%
Z	This vegetable originally came from the Americas, but the variety we eat today was created by Italian growers	Zucchini	65%
I	One of the books in Dante's "Divine Comedy", a place with nine circles	Inferno	64%
A	One of the most important Roman roads, still existing	{Appian} Way	63%
U	More than 1/3rd the population of this country have Italian descent	Uruguay	62%
N	Viking group that gradually conquered Southern Italy, starting in 999 A.D.	Normans	58%
G	One of the "fathers of the fatherland" he led the Redshirts in conquering the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies	Giuseppe Garibaldi	47%
H	Commonly known as the Vatican, this state was established in 756 and once controlled large swaths of Italy	{Holy} {See}	46%
W	The collapse of this empire in 476 AD marks the beginning of the Dark Ages	{Western} {Roman} Empire	45%
V	Town where Leonardo was born	Vinci	40%
S	Last royal family of Italy	House of {Savoy}	25%
Q	Official residence of the President of the Italian Republic, named after one of the seven hills of Rome	Quirinale	24%
B	Where the above ends, seat of the government for six months between 1943 and 1944	Brindisi	18%