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No prizes on offer. Just a chance to test your own and family or friends’ knowledge of food and wine. The answers are at the bottom of the next page. (See PDF attachment of this week's pages)
1. Which one of these is not or was not a great chef?
(a) Escoffier
(b) Cesar Ritz
(c) Gordon Ramsay
2. Which of these is the odd one out?
(a) Macaroni
(b) Rigatone
(c) Mozzarella
3. This is part of a wine label – from which region?
(a) Provence, France
(b) Crete, Greece
(c) Rapel Valley, Chile
4. You find a Saganaki in your Christmas Stocking; what do you do with it?
(a) Phone somebody because it’s a Japanese Mobile Telephone.
(b) Take it to the Vet and have it castrated
(c) Fry some Greek cheese in it.
5. Your partner asks you to make a Cyprus speciality, Skordalia – which of the following ingredients do you NOT use?
(a) Onion
(b) Garlic
(c) Bread
6. Three Michelin-starred European Chefs came to Cyprus this year for a gastronomic festival. At which hotel?
(a) Coral Beach, Paphos
(b) Hilton, Nicosia
(c) Columbia Resort, Pissouri.
7. You are eating ‘Bitterballen’. Which are they?:
(a) Deep fried sheep’s’ testicles in yogurt sauce.
(b) Deep fried crispy coated balls of cheese or meat
(c) Little pieces of chopped pork, skewered and barbecued
8. Who said: “I am only a beer teetotaller, not a Champagne teetotaller”?
(a) Winston Churchill
(b) President Glafcos Clerides
(c) President Richard Nixon
9. The huge cook book “Larousse Traditional French cookery” was written by:
(a) Curnonsky, the pen-name of Maurice Edmond Sailland
(b) Marco Polo
(c) Delia Smith
10. “Tsamarella” is a Cyprus speciality. It is…
(a) Little raviolis stuffed with soft cheese.
(b) Chunk of pork cured in herbs and red wine and baked.
(c) Dried goat’s meat served as an appetiser.
11) Which is the odd one out?
(a) Enchilada
(b) Ensalada
(c) Insalata
12) Brouilly, Chiroubles and Fleurie are all…
(a) French soups
(b) Villages in the Beaujolais
(c) Winds that blow up in Provence
13) Black Muscat is…
(a) The name of a medieval Arab pirate.
(b) A local form of trifle.
(c) A Cypriot sweet wine
14) Who is said to have made the first sparkling wines in Champagne?
(a) Dom Ruinart
(d) Dom Bradman
(c) Dom Perignon
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15) This man is a famous wine personality. Who?
(a) Georg Riedel, wine glass maker
(b) Robert Parker, wine critic
(c) Marcel Guigal, French winemaker
16) What did Albert Schweitzer, Benjamin Franklyn, Richard Wagner and Saint Francis of Assisi have in common?
(a) They all had degrees in science.
(b) They were all alcoholics.
(c) They were all vegetarians.
17) How many restaurants does McDonalds have around the world?
(a) Around 23,000
(b) Around 30,000
(c) Around 17,500
18) Which world-famous wine producer features great artists’ works (like Picasso, Jean Cocteau, Salvador Dali and Any Warhol ) on its labels?
(a) Louis Jadot
(b) Champagne Gosset
(c) Mouton Rothschild
19) Match the English words for food/cookery with the American.
English American
(a) Coriander (1) Rutabaga
(b) Frying pan (2) Broil
(c) Swede (3) Shuck
(d) Grill (4) Cilantro
(e) Hull (5) Skillet
20) Who said: “Where there is no wine, love perishes, and everything else that is pleasant to man”?
(a) Archimedes
(b) Horace
(c) Euripides
