Post by Deleted on Jan 5, 2009 21:33:57 GMT
Food & Drink Quiz I
Fed up with leftover turkey sandwiches ? Then try tommo’s new year Food and Drink Quiz. 30 questions to test your knowledge.
1 What foodstuff did Snow White’s wicked stepmother use to tempt her ?
2 In their search for the promised land, what did the Israelites eat in the desert ?
3 The berries of what shrub-like plant are used to make gin ?
4 What did Jack Sprat refuse to eat ?
5 What is Port Salut ?
6 What classic ad featured an alien family laughing at a traditional Earth recipe ?
7 What is the ingredient which turns curry yellow ? (Colemanator bonus)
8 What inhabitants of British waters are called the Silver Darlings ?
9 If it’s heavy in Scotland, what is it in England ? (Jockster bonus)
10 What do you get if you boil sheep’s offal, oats, suet and spices in a sheep’s stomach bag ?
11 What two foods originate in the Italian town of Parma ?
12 According to the advert, what did a million housewives say every day in the 1970’s ?
13 What is the Greek pastry baklava sweetened with ?
14 What is the main ingredient in Palestine soup ?
15 Where would an American put a weenie ?
16 What drink taught the world to sing in the 1970’s ?
17 What would you find in the middle of a Sussex Pond Pudding ?
18 Who was said to have advised starving French citizens to eat cake ?
19 What drink is known as uisge beatha (pronounced ‘ooskay baa’), meaning the water of life ?
20 In what concoctions were the victims of serial killer Sweeney Todd said to have ended up ?
21 What is the vegetable Americans call an eggplant known as in Britain ?
22 What drink is produced around the Spanish town of Jerez ?
23 What is a calzone ?
24 What writer collapsed and died while mixing a mayonnaise ?
25 What is the main ingredient boxty, colcannon and champ have in common ?
26 What is scampi made from ?
27 Whose divine dinners consisted of ambrosia and nectar ?
28 What is a rollmop ?
29 What is the sour ingredient in a whisky sour ?
30 Apart from appearing in the Bible, what do Balthazar, Methuselah and Nebuchadnezzar have in common ?
No more than 10 answers per person in any one 4-hour period, please. Good luck !
Fed up with leftover turkey sandwiches ? Then try tommo’s new year Food and Drink Quiz. 30 questions to test your knowledge.
1 What foodstuff did Snow White’s wicked stepmother use to tempt her ?
2 In their search for the promised land, what did the Israelites eat in the desert ?
3 The berries of what shrub-like plant are used to make gin ?
4 What did Jack Sprat refuse to eat ?
5 What is Port Salut ?
6 What classic ad featured an alien family laughing at a traditional Earth recipe ?
7 What is the ingredient which turns curry yellow ? (Colemanator bonus)
8 What inhabitants of British waters are called the Silver Darlings ?
9 If it’s heavy in Scotland, what is it in England ? (Jockster bonus)
10 What do you get if you boil sheep’s offal, oats, suet and spices in a sheep’s stomach bag ?
11 What two foods originate in the Italian town of Parma ?
12 According to the advert, what did a million housewives say every day in the 1970’s ?
13 What is the Greek pastry baklava sweetened with ?
14 What is the main ingredient in Palestine soup ?
15 Where would an American put a weenie ?
16 What drink taught the world to sing in the 1970’s ?
17 What would you find in the middle of a Sussex Pond Pudding ?
18 Who was said to have advised starving French citizens to eat cake ?
19 What drink is known as uisge beatha (pronounced ‘ooskay baa’), meaning the water of life ?
20 In what concoctions were the victims of serial killer Sweeney Todd said to have ended up ?
21 What is the vegetable Americans call an eggplant known as in Britain ?
22 What drink is produced around the Spanish town of Jerez ?
23 What is a calzone ?
24 What writer collapsed and died while mixing a mayonnaise ?
25 What is the main ingredient boxty, colcannon and champ have in common ?
26 What is scampi made from ?
27 Whose divine dinners consisted of ambrosia and nectar ?
28 What is a rollmop ?
29 What is the sour ingredient in a whisky sour ?
30 Apart from appearing in the Bible, what do Balthazar, Methuselah and Nebuchadnezzar have in common ?
No more than 10 answers per person in any one 4-hour period, please. Good luck !
