Q 01/05

The pH scale for acidity was introduced in 1909 by chemist Søren Sørensen at the laboratory of which Danish brewer?

A) Carlsberg

B) Tuborg

C) Mikkeller

D) Albani

Answer · why

A) Carlsberg

Carlsberg ran the research laboratory where Sørensen devised pH; what the p stands for is disputed, though 'power' begins with p in the Danish, German...

Q 02/05

Danes name their flaky pastry after which city, whose bakers brought the recipe during an 1850 Danish bakers' strike?

A) Paris

B) Vienna

C) Hamburg

D) Berlin

Answer · why

B) Vienna

Vienna gives the pastry its Danish name, wienerbrød, because the owners hired Austrian bakers to break the strike and those bakers brought their lamin...

Q 03/05

Under EU rules, a wine punch may be labelled 'Sangria' only if it was made in which two countries?

A) Spain and Italy

B) Spain and France

C) Spain and Portugal

D) Spain and Greece

Answer · why

C) Spain and Portugal

Spain and Portugal alone may sell the red-wine-and-fruit punch under that name inside the EU; bottlers elsewhere must call theirs something else.

Q 04/05

Austrian law requires that anything sold as Wiener schnitzel, a national dish, be made from which meat?

A) Veal

B) Beef

C) Chicken

D) Lamb

Answer · why

A) Veal

Veal cutlets, pounded thin and breaded, are the only legal version, and the crumbs must never be pressed in so they stay dry and puff away from the me...

Q 05/05

Which dish did the Swiss Cheese Union push as a national dish in the 1930s, mainly to get people eating more cheese?

A) Raclette

B) Fondue

C) Rösti

D) Älplermagronen

Answer · why

B) Fondue

Fondue was a marketing triumph for a cartel: the Union even invented pseudo-regional recipes and took the pot to the 1939 New York World's Fair.