No, this is not Angels and Demons...

In Italian class today, we had a little field trip to the Pantheon (my favorite building in Rome) for a scavenger hunt. The following questions were posed to us (in Italian):

1. Why is the Pantheon so named?

2. What is the name of the Pantheon today?

3. What is the “eye” of the Pantheon?

4. In the Pantheon is the tomb of an important painter. Who is this painter?

5. In the Pantheon is the tomb of a woman named Margherita: who is she?

6. In the Pantheon is the tomb of importance for Italy; whose is it and why is it important?

7. Near the Pantheon is the only Gothic Medieval church in Rome. Locate the elephant and find the church.

8. The elephant a sculptural project of a famous Italian artist: who?

9. What is the name of the church near the elephant?

10. Inside the church is the tomb of a saint: whose?

11. There is another tomb of a painter: whose?

I admit that I did not know the last one but I could answer almost all of these from memory. They aren’t difficult but putting them into complete Italian sentences, differentiating the need for past perfect or imperfect tense and thinking of all the vocab on the fly was a little hard.

Feel like making any guesses?

Number 10 is a trick question: most of this saint is entombed at this church. There is another piece that resides, on permanent display, in Siena.