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Cheese Quiz I
- Which cheese, once the world's most popular cheese, is known for its rind of red paraffin wax?
- Made from whole cream, what is the Italian version of cream cheese?
- Affectionately called 'the princess of cheeses', what is the most famous Greek cheese?
- Which veined Italian cheese made from unskimmed cow's milk, has been produced for centuries in a town in Milan?
- By law, which cheese can only be produced in the three counties of Derbyshire, Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire?
- What is the French translation for "fresh cheese"?
- Which Welsh town established an annual food festival in 2000 called The Big Cheese Festival?
- What sort of leaves is Cornish Yarg wrapped in?
- Mozzarella is a traditionally southern Italian cheese made from which animal's milk?
- Which crumbly cheese with a mild, mellow and slightly salty taste, is thought to be the oldest British cheese?
- What are the holes in Swiss cheeses called?
- Which yellow, medium-hard cheese, originated in a valley in the canton of Bern in west central Switzerland?
- Which fresh, Italian soft cheese is technically a creamy curd made by reheating whey (which is a byproduct of cheesemaking)?
- Huntsman cheese, also known as Stilchester, is made with alternating layers of which two English cheeses?
- Which cheese, known as The King Of Cheeses, did Samuel Pepys bury in the ground to save from the approaching Great Fire of London?
- What sort of cheese is traditionally used at the Cooper’s Hill Cheese-Rolling competition?
- Which cheese is a traditonal rival and popular substitute for Brie, mainly thanks to their similar methods of production?
- Which mild cow's-milk cheese with large regular holes can trace it's history back to Norwegian farmer Anders Larsen Bakke in the middle 1850s?
- Roquefort, one of the world's best known blue cheeses, is made from the milk of which animal?
- Which English city's cathedral is the logo and brand of Cathedral City cheese?
- Which soft creamy cheese created in 1957 in a Garlic and Fine Herbs flavour, is a brand of Gournay cheese?
- In Yorkshire, which cheese may accompany apple pie giving rise to the saying 'an apple pie without the cheese is like a kiss without the squeeze'?
- St Helen's Farm, Capricorn, Pantysgawn and Gevrik are example of cheeses made from which animal's milk?
Answers:
- Edam
- Mascarpone
- Feta
- Gorgonzola
- Stilton
- Fromage frais
- Caerphilly
- Nettle leaves
- Italian buffalo
- Cheshire cheese
- Eyes
- Emmental (Emmentaler, or Emmenthal)
- Ricotta
- Double Gloucester and Stilton
- Parmesan or Parmigiano Reggiano
- Double Gloucester
- Camembert
- Jarlsberge
- Sheep
- Wells (Wells Cathedral, in Somerset)
- Boursin
- Wensleydale
- Goat's milk