Food & Drink Pub Quiz 260608

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1. Q: Which Swiss cheese has large holes?
   A: Emmentaler (or Emmental). Often simply referred to as “Swiss cheese,” it is a pale-yellow, medium-hard cheese with a mild, savoury, and slightly sweet nutty flavour.
2. Q: What fruit is the basis of a melba sauce?
   A: Raspberries. Created by Auguste Escoffier in the 1890s to accompany Peach Melba. Primarily fresh or frozen red raspberries, sugar, and sometimes red currant jelly or lemon juice to add brightness.
3. Q: Moussaka is a traditional dish from which country?
   A: Greece. The beloved layered casserole features sautéed eggplant or potatoes, a spiced minced meat sauce, and a creamy béchamel topping.
4. Q: Which French blue-veined cheese do cheesemakers ripen in limestone caves?
   A: Roquefort. Strict French and European laws protect authentic Roquefort, requiring cheesemakers to produce it from raw sheep’s milk and to age it exclusively in the natural limestone caves of Roquefort-sur-Soulzon in southern France.
5. Q: Which Italian dish consists of filled pasta squares in a sauce?
   A: Ravioli. Cooks fold the pasta dough over fillings such as ricotta, meat, cheese, or vegetables.
6. Q: In French cooking, what are “quenelles”?
   A: dumplings. Made of creamed fish or poultry mixed with breadcrumbs, bound with egg.
7. Q: Which country produces Retsina wine?
   A: Greece. Winemakers infuse it with Aleppo pine resin during fermentation, giving the wine its distinctively herbaceous, piney flavour profile.
8. Q: Rhapsody, Armel, and Cambridge Favourite are all popular varieties of which fruit?
   A: Strawberries. They are popular among gardeners and fruit growers.
9. Q: The berry of the Pimenta dioica plant makes which spice?
   A: Allspice, also widely known as pimento or Jamaica pepper. People make it from the dried, unripe berries of the Pimenta dioica plant, an evergreen tree native to the Caribbean and Central America.
10. Q: Cobnuts are the fruit of which tree?
    A: hazel tree (or large hazel bush). Specifically, the species Corylus avellana (common hazel) and Corylus maxima (filbert).