My little competition attracted quite a few people, but nobody posted the winning response. Anyway, the contest is over now. Thanks to anyone who had a go.
I think I’ll run something similar in the future, most probably when the Google search system is fully up and running. Google has not finished indexing Blog from Italy yet, so the search results are still incomplete, I know. This is why there are two search systems at the moment.
The WordPress search system will disappear once Google is up to speed.

Stop reading, start speaking
Stop translating in your head and start speaking Italian for real with the only audio course that prompt you to speak.
Back to the contest, if anyone did have problems of any kind, then please let me know. At least so I can streamline things in the future.
As for the hack attack I thought I had, my hosting service tells me that there was no attempt to hack attack Blog from Italy, although I remain not 100% convinced. Someone from Australia was doing something odd, and odd things started happening. Oh the joys of running your own site.