Cheese Quiz Questions and Answers

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Cheese Quiz Questions

  1. Which of these is NOT a type of Lancashire Cheese
    (a) Young creamy (b) Mature tasty (c) Mature pungent
  2. Where did Wallace and Gromit go when they ran out of cheese?
    (a) Australia (b) Lancashire (c) The Moon
  3. in what year was the world famous mature cheese "Old Amsterdam" introduced on the Dutch market?
    (a) 1936 (b) 1985 (c) 2004
  4. During the Roman Empire large Roman houses had separate kitchens for manufacturing cheese only, what were they called
    (a) Careale (b) Triclinium (c) Fauces
  5. In the old but much loved 'Tom and Gerry' cartoons, what cheese did Gerry the mouse like best?
    (a) Cheddar (b) Emmental (c) Brie
  6. Dolcelatte literally translated name means?
    (a) Sweet milk (b) Soft blue (c) The town of the same name in Lombardy
  7. What was the name of the sailor who dreamed of Toasted Cheese in Treasure Island?
    (a) Ben Gunn (b) Long John Silver (c) John Trelawney
  8. Which English cheese is known as the King of Cheeses?
    (a) Cheddar (b) Stilton (c) Red Leicester
  9. A cheese used in numerous Italian desserts whose name literally means 'recooked'.
    (a) Ricotta (b) Reggiano (c) Asiago
  10. Legend has it that a young French shepherd saw a beautiful girl on the horizon. Leaving his lunch box in a nearby cave, he went out to meet her. Returning months later a mould had transformed his plain cheese into this cheese.
    (a) Gorgonzola (b) Jeune mâle (c) Roquefort

Answers

  1. (c) Mature pungent
  2. (c) The Moon
  3. (b) 1985
  4. (a) careale
  5. (b) Emmental
  6. (a) Sweet milk
  7. (a) Ben Gunn
  8. (b) Stilton - Stilton, a mellow blue cheese that also has a 'white' version
  9. (a) Ricotta
  10. (c) Roquefort - (Jeune mâle or Young Buck is actually new, raw-milk, blue cheese from Northern Ireland)

 

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