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How Are We Going To Call This Sauce? Quiz

Italians created many pasta dishes putting creativity not only in the recipes, but also in their names.

A multiple-choice quiz by zordy. Estimated time: 4 mins.

Author
zordy

Time
4 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
399,729

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Average

Avg Score
7 / 10

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Question 1 of 10

1. The name of this pasta dish means "coal man-style". Which pasta is mixed with raw eggs and parmesan, topped with fried bacon, pepper and grated nutmeg?
Hint

Contadina

Minatora

Carbonara

Muratora

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Question 2 of 10

2. The sauce made with tomato, tuna, garlic, black olives and capers is spread over spaghetti or penne. Which recipe has a very disparaging name?
Hint

Orecchiette

Milanese

Bolognese

Puttanesca

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Question 3 of 10

3. Which sauce is made with cured pork cheek called "guanciale", pecorino cheese, tomato and takes its name from the town of origin? Hint

Amatriciana

Cremonese

Veneziana

Valtellinese

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Question 4 of 10

4. The name means "angry", maybe for its spiciness. Tomato, dried chili peppers, garlic, olive oil are the main ingredients for which sauce? Hint

Gricia

Marinara

Arrabbiata

Montanara

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Question 5 of 10

5. Which very simple but tasteful sauce is made with onions and meat and, despite its name, is typically Neapolitan? Hint

Torinese

Genovese

Barese

Triestina

6. This sauce has the not very appetizing name meaning "drool". Which sauce is made with melted cheeses and is used for gnocchi (potato dumplings) in the northern regions Piemonte and Val d'Aosta? Hint

Bauscia

Saliva

Bava

Sputo

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Question 7 of 10

7. Which very famous green sauce, whose name means "crushed", is made with basil, olive oil, pine nuts, garlic and Parmesan cheese?

Answer: (One Word, 5 letters)

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Question 8 of 10

8. "Woodsman-style" is how which sauces made with mushrooms are called? Hint

Boscaiola

Monzese

Forno

Bolognese

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Question 9 of 10

9. Which tasty dish, made with tomatoes, salted ricotta cheese and fried eggplants, derives its name from a Vincenzo Bellini opera? Hint

Norma

Puritani

Sonnambula

Zaira

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Question 10 of 10

10. "Cart driver-style": which very simple Sicilian sauce for spaghetti contains olive oil, raw garlic, pepper, and grated Pecorino cheese? Hint

Camionista

Carrettiera

Conducente

Cocchiera

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. The name of this pasta dish means "coal man-style". Which pasta is mixed with raw eggs and parmesan, topped with fried bacon, pepper and grated nutmeg?

Answer: Carbonara

"Carbonari" were the coal men but also the members of secret revolutionary societies active in Italy at the beginning of the XIX Century.

2. The sauce made with tomato, tuna, garlic, black olives and capers is spread over spaghetti or penne. Which recipe has a very disparaging name?

Answer: Puttanesca

"Puttanesca means "prostitute-style". And nobody knows why.

3. Which sauce is made with cured pork cheek called "guanciale", pecorino cheese, tomato and takes its name from the town of origin?

Answer: Amatriciana

"Amatriciana", from Amatrice, a town in Lazio that sadly was almost completely destroyed in the 2016 earthquake.

4. The name means "angry", maybe for its spiciness. Tomato, dried chili peppers, garlic, olive oil are the main ingredients for which sauce?

Answer: Arrabbiata

It's a typical dish of the city of Rome and its surroundings. If the cook is too generous with peppers, the eater's face turns red like in a fit of rage. Hence the name (allegedly).

5. Which very simple but tasteful sauce is made with onions and meat and, despite its name, is typically Neapolitan?

Answer: Genovese

The name suggest a Genoese origin, but this dish is actually almost unknown in Northern Italy. In Naples it is normally made with ziti, a big tubular pasta. "Genovese" could be the name of the cook who invented it.

Answer: Bava

The horrible name probably comes from the "threads" of cheese dangling from the gnocchi. But the taste can actually make you drool, believe me.

7. Which very famous green sauce, whose name means "crushed", is made with basil, olive oil, pine nuts, garlic and Parmesan cheese?

Answer: Pesto

The sauce I have described is "pesto alla Genovese", but "pesto" is any sauce made crushing raw ingredients in a mortar with a pestle.

8. "Woodsman-style" is how which sauces made with mushrooms are called?

Answer: Boscaiola

The main version includes porcini (Boletus edulis) mushrooms, peeled tomatoes, olives, and smoked bacon. An ideal sauce for tagliatelle.

"Al forno" means "in the oven", a cooking method that's ideal especially for lasagne. "Monzese" is a sauce with sausages and saffron. "Bolognese" is a meat ragout.

9. Which tasty dish, made with tomatoes, salted ricotta cheese and fried eggplants, derives its name from a Vincenzo Bellini opera?

Answer: Norma

"Norma" is an opera in two acts by Vincenzo Bellini that premiered at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan in 1831. Allegedly, the opera title inspired the name for a new sauce for macaroni, invented in Catania, Sicily, in the same period.

Curiously, the role of Norma (in the opera) was created for a famous soprano singer whose name was Giuditta Pasta.

10. "Cart driver-style": which very simple Sicilian sauce for spaghetti contains olive oil, raw garlic, pepper, and grated Pecorino cheese?

Answer: Carrettiera

"Carrettieri" or cart drivers were of course always traveling. They needed a recipe with easy-to-preserve ingredients. That's how the "pasta alla carrettiera" was born.

Source: Author zordy

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