Cheese Quiz Questions

1. What age is the oldest edible cheddar recorded?
   (a) 20 years (b) 40 years (c) 100 years
2. Which English county has three cheese varieties that use its name?
   (a) Cheshire (b) Lancashire (c) Gloucester
3. What is traditionally dipped in a fondue?
   (a) Bread (b) Meatballs (c) Apple
4. Headcheese is?
   (a) Slang for the boss (b) A cold cut terrine or meat jelly, often made with flesh from the head of a calf or pig usually set in aspic (c) Tete de fromage, literally the head of a cheese department.
5. During the Roman Empire large Roman houses had separate kitchens for manufacturing cheese only, what were they called
   (a) Careale (b) Triclinium (c) Fauces
6. In the old but much loved 'Tom and Gerry' cartoons, what cheese did Gerry the mouse like best?
   (a) Cheddar (b) Emmental (c) Brie
7. What sort of leaves is Cornish Yarg wrapped in?
   (a) Stinging nettle (b) Dock (c) Dandelion
8. Which English cheese, factory-made as early as 1870, is better known in its sage-flavoured, green coloured version than its original form?
   (a) Derby (b) Cheshire (c) Gloucester
9. Which of these cheeses is not Swiss?
   (a) Sbrinz - considered to be the oldest European cheese, an ancestor of Parmigiano Reggiano (b) Vacherin Fribourgeois - enjoyed with a white Burgundy to bring out savoury custard notes. (c) Neufchâtel - similar to Camembert, with a dry, white, edible rind
10. A cheese used in numerous Italian desserts whose name literally means 'recooked'.
    (a) Ricotta (b) Reggiano (c) Asiago
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