* Giorgio Vasari was court architect to the Medicis from 1555 until his death in 1574. In 1560, Cosimo I asked him to design which building?
* What is Firenze's main square called?
* The Duomo is less known under which name?
* The Republic (or Grand Duchy) joined the Kingdom of Italy in 1861 on one condition posed by external forces. Which was it?
* The Galleria dell'Accademia's foremost claim to fame is obviously that it houses Michelangelo's "David". A lesser known fact is that it was Europe's first academy of...
* In the Uffizi, you will not find a finished painting by which of the following artists?
* The construction of this palace, which was to become home to the Signoria and later the Medici family, was started in 1299. Which one is it?
* On the Ponte Vecchio, you'll find centuries-old shops famous for their...
* What is the only play by Plautus on a mythological theme?
* In classical myth, what prophet had the gift of understanding animals?
* What king of Cappadocia did Sulla restore to the throne in 96 BC?
* On what river was the "greatest of human seers" -- Iamus -- abandoned as a child?
* Who was the powerful magister peditum of Eugenius who fled and was eventually killed after the battle of Frigdus in 394?
* Who wrote the Consolation of Philosophy while awaiting death in Prison?
* In the Odyssey, who was the disloyal goatherd slaughtered by Odysseus?
* Who translated the Milesian tales of Aristedes into Latin?
* Who was the last person NOT from the imperial family to be hailed by troops as "imperator" (Hint: 2nd decade of the 1st century AD)
* Who was Achilles' chariot driver?
* What was Cicero's first case?
* Who, according to Moses Hadas, was the last Roman author to write in the Classical style when he wrote De Raptu Proserpina?