1. Which word is defined as a “vent in the crust of Earth or another planet or satellite, from which issue eruptions of molten rock, hot rock fragments, and hot gases”?

2. First used in English text in 1750, which Neapolitan dialect word originally referred to a kind of stream that sometimes “washes” or “washes down” the slopes of Mount Vesuvius?

3. Which Italian word, when adopted into English in the 1700s, could refer to a “visitation” or an “outbreak” of any epidemic disease?

4. Which Italian word taken into English literally means “bottle” and figuratively means “a failure in performance”?

5. Which Italian word, first used in English text in 1724, means “the last part of a piece of music or an event”?

6. Which Italian word, when adopted into English in the 19th century, was associated with Italian opera?

7. Which English word, adopted from the Italian for alone, means “a musical composition or passage for one voice or instrument”?

8. Which English word, from the Italian literally meaning “thin strings,” was first used in English text in 1849?

9. Which English word derives from the Italian and Latin words for bread?

10. In Italian, which word adopted into English literally means “frozen” or “chilled”?

11. Which Italian word, first appearing in English text in 1699, referred to “a variety of cabbage with heads of green and purple buds”?

12. In Italian, which word refers specifically to Dublin Bay prawns, also called langoustines or Norway lobsters?

13. Which Italian word means “goddess” or “prima donna” and was taken into English to mean the latter?

14. Which Italian noun adopted into English derives from a preposition that can mean “over” or “above”?

15. Which Italian word literally meaning “baked earth” can also refer to a type of fired clay?

16. In Italian, which word means “oddness,” “wild fancy or imagining,” “freak of nature,” or “something lacking in restraint”?

17. Which Italian word, now used in English for a type of Italian bread, literally means “slipper”?

18. Which Italian word originally referring to a short dagger is more likely to refer to a style of shoe in English?