Q 01/05

Which cheese, the UK's most popular, is named for a Somerset village with a cave-filled gorge?

A) Cheddar

B) Stilton

C) Cheshire

D) Wensleydale

Answer · why

A) Cheddar

The village had a natural advantage: its caves kept a steady temperature and humidity, and tradition once required the cheese to be made within 30 mil...

Q 02/05

Which sheep's-milk blue cheese received France's first Appellation d'Origine Contrôlée in 1925?

A) Fourme d'Ambert

B) Roquefort

C) Gorgonzola

D) Bleu d'Auvergne

Answer · why

B) Roquefort

Every wheel is made from the milk of Lacaune sheep, and about 4.5 litres of milk go into each kilogram of finished cheese.

Q 03/05

Which English cheese cannot legally be made in the village it is named after?

A) Cheshire

B) Cheddar

C) Stilton

D) Wensleydale

Answer · why

C) Stilton

Only cheese made in Derbyshire, Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire qualifies; the village of Stilton, where it was originally sold at a coaching inn, ...

Q 04/05

Which Sardinian sheep's-milk cheese with live insect larvae is banned across the EU?

A) Casu martzu

B) Bitto

C) Fiore sardo

D) Ricotta salata

Answer · why

A) Casu martzu

The cheese fly's larvae break down the fats until the cheese weeps a liquid locals call 'teardrop'; a ready wheel can hold thousands of them.

Q 05/05

Pule, the world's most expensive cheese, is made in Serbia mostly from which animal's milk?

A) Yak

B) Camel

C) Reindeer

D) Donkey

Answer · why

D) Donkey

Only about 100 jennies in the Zasavica reserve are milked for it, and it takes 25 litres of milk to make a single kilogram.