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Cheese Quotes Trivia Quiz

A rather obscure quiz about quotations on the subject of cheese. I wonder if anyone at all will play it.

A multiple-choice quiz by Islingtonian. Estimated time: 6 mins.

Author
Islingtonian

Time
6 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
101,418

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Difficult

Avg Score
5 / 10

Plays
2438

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Question 1 of 10

1. Which French president famously asked "How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?" Hint

Mitterand

Pompidou

De Gaulle

Giscard d'Estaing

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Question 2 of 10

2. "God defend me from that Welsh fairy, Lest he transform me to a piece of cheese?" Which Shakespeare play does this come from?
Hint

The Merry Wives of Windsor

Macbeth

Hamlet

Romeo and Juliet

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Question 3 of 10

3. According to John Travolta's character in Quentin Tarantino's "Pulp Fiction", what do they call a quarterpounder with cheese in France? Hint

Repas Degoutant Americain

Le Quarterpounder avec Fromage

Royale with Cheese

Le Cheese

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Question 4 of 10

4. Who wrote "Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese"? Hint

Henry Longfellow

G K Chesterton

Mark Twain

Thomas Hardy

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Question 5 of 10

5. Who described cheese as "Corpse of milk"? Hint

Oscar Wilde

George Bernard Shaw

Homer Simpson

James Joyce

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Question 6 of 10

6. Who (more positively) described cheese as "Milk's leap toward immortality"? Hint

Howard Stern

Martin Landau

Dorothy Fields

Clifton Fadiman

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Question 7 of 10

7. Who wrote "The moone is made of a greene cheese"? Hint

John Donne

John Heywood

John Bunyan

John Carpenter

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Question 8 of 10

8. Which poet penned the following lines

"A poet's hope: to be,

like some valley cheese,

local, but prized elsewhere"?

Hint

Robert Burns

William Wordsworth

W H Auden

Mary Shelley

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Question 9 of 10

9. "Of harmes two the lesse is for to cheese." Was written by whom?
Hint

Chaucer

Bacon

Johnson

Dickens

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Question 10 of 10

10. Finally, who described a "Cheeseburger in Paradise" as being "Heaven on Earth with an Onion Slice"? Hint

The Beach Boys

Luciano Pavarotti

Glenn Madeiros

Jimmy Buffett

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. Which French president famously asked "How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?"

Answer: De Gaulle

Having weathered World War II, Algeria and numerous political crises, Charles de Gaulle had to resign as President when he failed to deal effectively with a student sit-in at the Sorbonne. The sit-in of course broke up when the students realised it was almost time for their summer vacation.

2. "God defend me from that Welsh fairy, Lest he transform me to a piece of cheese?" Which Shakespeare play does this come from?

Answer: The Merry Wives of Windsor

Said by Falstaff. Apparently this quote was based on the notion that the Welsh were great eaters of cheese.

3. According to John Travolta's character in Quentin Tarantino's "Pulp Fiction", what do they call a quarterpounder with cheese in France?

Answer: Royale with Cheese

In fact it's actually just a "Royale Cheese" - there's no "with". See how travel broadens the mind.

4. Who wrote "Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese"?

Answer: G K Chesterton

Writer Gilbert Keith Chesterton subscribed to a political theory called distributism, according to which (in his words) all men should be able to own "three acres and a cow." This is where modern politicians go wrong ...

5. Who described cheese as "Corpse of milk"?

Answer: James Joyce

It's a quote from Leopold Bloom, in "Ulysses".

6. Who (more positively) described cheese as "Milk's leap toward immortality"?

Answer: Clifton Fadiman

I suspect that Fadiman, who hosted NBC's "Information Please" and died in 1999, isn't known outside the US. But I love the quote.

7. Who wrote "The moone is made of a greene cheese"?

Answer: John Heywood

16th century poet Heywood almost certainly didn't know how much trouble he was causing writing this. The United States had to spend billions disproving it.

8. Which poet penned the following lines
"A poet's hope: to be,
like some valley cheese,
local, but prized elsewhere"?

Answer: W H Auden

Auden wrote the very beautiful poem used in "Four Weddings and a Funeral", which begins "Stop all the Clocks ...". He also wrote this.

9. "Of harmes two the lesse is for to cheese." Was written by whom?

Answer: Chaucer

From "Troilus and Creseide". In fact, Chaucer wasn't actually saying that cheese is the lesser of 2 evils - in old English, this actually means that one should choose the lesser of 2 evils.

10. Finally, who described a "Cheeseburger in Paradise" as being "Heaven on Earth with an Onion Slice"?

Answer: Jimmy Buffett

Buffett has a restaurant in Florida, where you can buy a hat in the shape of a cheeseburger. The sad thing is that I've been there.

Source: Author Islingtonian

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