Down the Hatch Trivia Quiz

Answer: Vodka

The Caesar is widely regarded as Canada's national cocktail. A basic Caesar consists of vodka, Clamato (tomato juice flavoured with spices and clam broth), Tabasco and Worcestershire sauce. The glass is rimmed with celery salt and the drink is garnished with a wedge of lime and a stalk of celery. Horseradish is an optional extra.

The inspiration for the dish came from the Italian dish Spaghetti alle vongole (spaghetti with clams) and it was invented to celebrate the opening of a new Italian restaurant in Calgary, Alberta.

The addition of the clam broth distinguishes it from a Bloody Mary.

Answer: St James's Gate

Guinness is a dry stout that owes its burnt flavour to malted barley and roasted unmalted barley. The draft version has a characteristic thick creamy head. It can be mixed with white sparkling wine, traditionally champagne, to give the cocktail black velvet. The company's logo is a harp and one of its spin-offs is the Guinness Book of Records.

Answer: Plum

Slivovitz is a product of central and eastern Europe and is distilled from damson plums. It is the national drink of Serbia and plum is the national fruit. According to Serbian tradition, the best place to build a house is wherever a plum tree will grow.

Answer: White

Gewürztraminer is a spicy aromatic semi-dry white wine derived from a pink-skinned grape and produced mainly in Germany and Alsace. It has a bouquet reminiscent of lychees, with which it actually shares some aromatic compounds. If you ever find yourself sampling Gewürztraminer at a wine tasting, you can impress the assembled company by saying you taste lychees ... and you'll not be wrong.

Answer: Netherlands

The original Amstel brewery was in Amsterdam and was named after the Amstel river that flows through the city and whose water was used to make the beer. The brand is now owned by Heineken and the brewery in Amsterdam is no longer operational.

Answer: Pinot noir

Red burgundy is made from pinot noir grapes and white burgundy from chardonnay grapes. Cabernet sauvignon is a major constituent of red Bordeaux wines, which the English sometimes call 'claret'. The gamay grape is the main constituent of red wine originating in the Beaujolais region and known as 'beaujolais'. Cabernet franc is a black grape that can be vinified alone to make Chinon wines or blended with other grapes, as in Bordeaux wines.

Answer: Banana

Pisang Ambon is a bright green banana liqueur flavoured with herbs and tropical fruits. It is based on an old Indonesian liqueur, 'pisang' meaning 'banana' in Malay and Indonesian. Ambon is the capital of the Indonesian province of Maluku, which formed part of the Dutch East Indies until independence in 1945.

Answer: Mull

Scotland is surrounded by isles that are home to whisky distilleries. The isles of Mull, Skye, Arran, Islay and Jura lie off the west coast and Orkney is off the north coast. The Tobermory distillery is famous for its single malt whisky. Mull is the second largest island of the Inner Hebrides, Skye being the largest.

Answer: Barossa Valley

Marlborough, Hawke's Bay and Gisborne are all famous New Zealand wine growing regions. It was wineries from the Marlborough region that first put the country on the international wine stage in the 1980s, principally with their outstanding and much acclaimed Sauvignon Blanc, which Oz Clarke described as "arguably the best in the world".

The Barossa Valley is in South Australia and is one of the country's oldest wine producing areas, especially associated with the grape variety of Shiraz, but growing many others as well.

Answer: Japan

All the named countries produce whisky (or whiskey, in the case of Ireland and Canada), with Scotland being far and away the biggest producer, so it came as something of a surprise and a wake-up call to the industry when a Japanese single malt from the Yamazaki distillery was given the accolade of best whisky in the world in 2015. Whisky expert Jim Murray described it as a drink of "near incredible genius", awarding it 97.5 marks out of 100 in the 2015 World Whisky Bible. Adding insult to injury, it was an English whisky, and not a Scottish one, that was named best European whisky of the year.