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Quiz Creation Notes for Hobbies Quizzes, Trivia and Puzzles

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Quiz Creation Notes for Hobbies

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Cooking Up a Culinary Quiz

Multiple Choice

10 Qns

Creating a quiz about food is not significantly different from crafting a quiz about anything else but there are a few special pitfalls awaiting the unwary author. This quiz highlights a few of them.

Average, 10 Qns, FatherSteve, Jun 04 22

Average
FatherSteve

Jun 04 22
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QCNs for Hobbies Trivia Questions

1. What is the nation or culture of origin of the Mediterranean or Middle Eastern dish commonly called "baklava"?

From Quiz Cooking Up a Culinary Quiz

Answer: nobody knows for sure

In many Middle Eastern and Mediterranean cultures, a lovely dish is made by interleaving ultra-thin phyllo pastry with chopped nuts coated in either honey or sugar syrup. The two loudest claimants of ownership of this dish are Greece and Turkey. The Armenians, who call it "paklava," claim its origin, as well. There is good evidence that this dish was made in Ancient Persia, at least as early as the 9th century. A similar situation exists concerning pesto and pistou. Both are uncooked green sauces. Pesto is from Italy and pistou is from the Provençal region of France. Both are made by mixing (pounding) basil, olive oil and garlic. Both may include grated hard cheese. Only pesto includes ground pine nuts. When approaching the issue of the country or culture of origin of a food, the quiz author should proceed with great caution. Because heated and emphatic dissent may be prompted by taking a side on these questions, it is perhaps better to avoid the issue altogether.

2. Chapter 3 of "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd" by Agatha Christie is entitled "The Man Who Grew Vegetable Marrows." What is a vegetable marrow?

From Quiz Cooking Up a Culinary Quiz

Answer: zucchini squash

In the murder mystery, M. Poirot is found in his garden cultivating vegetable marrows. This is another word (a particularly British English word) for a mature zucchini squash. In British English, a small zucchini is called a courgette; once fully grown, it becomes a marrow. In North America, the squash remains a zucchini all of its life. A marrow is treated culinarily as a vegetable and botanically as a fruit because they are a swollen ovary containing seeds. Marrow, to most North Americans, sounds like the rich fatty stuff inside a large bone. When naming ingredients in a culinary quiz, the author must be careful of the multiplicity of names which that ingredient may have. Examples are eggplants and aubergines, peanuts and groundnuts, swede and rutabaga, Chinook Salmon and King Salmon, whisky and whiskey, and so on.

3. Which would be the better thing to say about bleu cheese, Gorgonzola, Roquefort, Stilton, Maytag Blue cheese, Cambozola, Cabrales, Danablu, and other such cheeses?

From Quiz Cooking Up a Culinary Quiz

Answer: interesting, strong, divisive

Cheeses flavoured by Penicillium roqueforti and its relatives tend to be strongly-flavoured and dichotomising: tasters like them or they don't. Roquefort-style cheeses were invented/discovered many centuries ago; conflicting claims concerning who first made and ate such cheeses are irresolvable. The player taking a culinary quiz has no interest in the quiz author's food preferences and these preferences ought not determine the correctness of any answer.

4. How many common names are there for a milkshake?

From Quiz Cooking Up a Culinary Quiz

Answer: more than three

A milkshake is a sweet drink which combines milk, ice cream, and flavourants such as chocolate syrup, fruit syrup or puree, dessert sauces such as caramel or butterscotch, peanut butter, root beer extract, and many others. The milkshake probably originated in the United States in the late 19th century. Names for the drink vary. To distinguish it from thin flavoured milk, it is sometimes called a thick shake. In New England and Eastern Canada, it may be called a frappe. People in Rhode Island, Massachusetts and New Hampshire may call them cabinets. If malt powder is added, the result may be called a malt. If a raw egg is added, it may be called an eggshake. The name "concrete" refers to its thickness and the term "velvet" refers to its smoothness. The author of a culinary quiz must be careful not to use a single word as if it were the only word for a dish, when there may be many.

5. What is the difference, if any, between cilantro and culantro?

From Quiz Cooking Up a Culinary Quiz

Answer: They are two entirely different plants

Cilantro is Coriandrum sativum; culantro is Eryngium foetidum. They are two entirely different plants which taste rather like each other. Cilantro is an annual; culantro is a biennial. Cilantro has long, thin leaves that grow on long, thin stalks; culantro leaves grow in rosettes. The leaves of cilantro are sometimes called Chinese parsley or Mexican parsley; its seeds are called coriander. Culantro is also called "cilantro de hoja ancha" in Spanish or "recao" or "chandon beni." The flavour of culantro is stronger; it is added to food while cooking. The flavour of cilantro is milder; it is added as a garnish or seasoning at the end of cooking. Cilantro is a native of the Mediterranean; culantro is native to the Americas and West Indies. Culinary quiz authors must be alert to foods that sound alike but are quite different, of which cilantro and culantro are an example. Another is macarons (cookies made of ground almonds) and macaroons (cookies made of sweetened flaked coconut). Yet another is taffy (soft, chewy, boiled-sugar candy which sticks to your teeth) and toffee (hard, breakable, boiled-sugar candy with a darker taste).

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