Q 01/05

Which corn-dough parcel wrapped in plantain leaves and filled with meat stew is Venezuela's Christmas dish?

A) Hallaca

B) Arepa

C) Cachapa

D) Empanada

Answer · why

A) Hallaca

The hallaca is Venezuela's Christmas dish: corn dough around a stew of beef, pork and chicken with raisins, olives and capers, folded in plantain leav...

Q 02/05

What Italian city is considered the birthplace of panettone?

A) Rome

B) Naples

C) Milan

D) Florence

Answer · why

C) Milan

Milan is panettone's home, yet the tall, soft dome known today dates only from 1919, when Angelo Motta's bakery there began turning out the modern loa...

Q 03/05

What is France's traditional Christmas dessert?

A) Bûche de Noël

B) Galette des Rois

C) Croquembouche

D) Paris-Brest

Answer · why

A) Bûche de Noël

The Bûche de Noël (Yule Log cake) is a traditional French Christmas dessert made from rolled sponge cake decorated to look like a log, referencing the...

Q 04/05

Eggnog is believed to descend from which medieval English drink of hot curdled milk?

A) Posset

B) Mead

C) Wassail

D) Caudle

Answer · why

A) Posset

Posset was taken as a cold remedy and a nightcap: in Macbeth, Lady Macbeth drugs the guards' possets so that they sleep through King Duncan's murder.

Q 05/05

Which German city is most famous for its Christmas stollen, holding an annual festival in its honor?

A) Munich

B) Dresden

C) Berlin

D) Nuremberg

Answer · why

B) Dresden

Dresden's Stollenfest parades a giant stollen weighing tonnes through the streets to the Christmas market each Advent, where it is cut up and sold in ...