Cheese (Plus More) Quiz Questions and Answers for Pub Quizzes and Social Nights

May 10, 2021October 15, 2025 by Charlotte Kitto

General Knowledge Quiz
(Plus Cheese)

What started as a light-hearted way to stay connected during COVID lockdowns quickly became one of our most popular traditions — and we’ve kept it going ever since.

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Published May 10, 2021October 15, 2025

General Knowledge Quiz

Vieux Boulogne is?
(a) A soft cheese from the northern French port of the same name (b) A hard cheese from a town of that name just outside of Ontario in Canada (c) It’s a variety of boules played in Corsica
What's the name of this English camembert-style cheese?
(a) Tunworth (b) Tamworth (c) Tinworm
How many different cheeses varieties are available today?
(a) 800 (b) 1000 (c) 2000
Where can you find currywurst?
(a) Germany (b) India (c) Pakistan
How much of the worlds chocolate comes from small family run farms?
(a) 10% (b) 50% (c) 80%
In 1907 Francis Galson, a statistician, observed that in a contest to guess the weight of an ox at a country fair, the median guess of nearly 800 people was accurate to within
(a) One percent (b) Three percent (c) Five percent
Who has played James Bond the most times?
(a) Sean Connery (b) Roger Moore (c) Daniel Craig
Oakham is the county town of which English county?
(a) Rutland (b) East Yorkshire (c) Suffolk
In economics the situation where a small number of companies control a market is known as
(a) A monopoly (b) An oligopoly (c) An oligarch
Who in 1609 was the first to use a telescope to make scientific observations of the moon?
(a) James Gregory (b) Robert Hooke (c) Galileo Galilei

Answers

(a) A soft cheese from the northern French port of the same name
(a) Tunworth
(c) 2000 (Right according to Michael Tunick’s The Science of Cheese 2014)
(a) Germany (German street food from around 1949. Sliced sausage with tomato sauce and curry powder, usually eaten with bread or french fries)
(c) 80%
(a) One percent (Wisdom of Crowds)
(a) + (b) Craig 5, Connery 7, Moore 7
(a) Rutland
(b) An oligopoly
(c) Galileo Galilei

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