Quiz | Easy Like Sunday Morning: On Cheese
1/10 | According to legend, on this day in 1070, a young boy was eating bread with sheep’s milk cheese under a natural shelter at Roquefort-sur-Soulzon. He saw a beautiful girl and gave up his food. When he returned to the place a few months later, he found that a mold had replaced the cheese. Its flavor was now pungent, and eventually became famous. Under EU law, only cheese aged in the same way is called Roquefort. Where did the boy take refuge?
Answer: A cave; Roquefort is the only aged cheese in the caves of that region.
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2/10 | One of the most popular hard cheeses in the world, Cheddar is known for its sharp taste. To make it recognizable, a small amount of ‘annatto’ is added. Made from the seeds of the achiote tree, what makes cheddar cheese so special?
3/10 | Edam is a cheese that does not spoil, but only hardens. It is usually covered with red paraffin wax and can be stored for up to six months. As a result, it grew in popularity among a select group of people in the 17th and 18th centuries. Where was this cheese popular?
Answer: On ships for long sea voyages
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4/10 | The world’s most expensive cheese, Pule cheese, is made from the milk of certain species of domestic cattle in Serbia. At a price of $600 per pound, it is so expensive because there are only about 100 jennys that are milked to make pullets. What kind of animal takes three 3 liters of milk to make half a kilo of this cheese?
5/10 | One of the reasons cheese is so addictive is that it contains trace amounts of a naturally occurring compound that comes from cow’s liver. The same compound has been used as a pain reliever for over 200 years and is usually derived from poppy seeds. What is this compound, named after the Greek god of dreams?
6/10 | Albertville is a city in France famous for its Beaufort cheese. Whey is one of the by-products of cheese making. The city collects this whey, adds bacteria to it to turn it into biogas. This gas is then fed through an engine which heats the water to 90°C. The result of this process makes Albertville unique because it produces cheese using which key unit?
7/10 | Credem Bank in Parma, Italy, takes a special unit from local producers in exchange for cheap loans. They charge a small fee to ensure that the item matures properly (2 years to two years) in the bank’s vault, and if the loan defaults, the item is sold. What are these items that are currently worth over $200 million?
8/10 | Blessed Are the Cheesemakers is a novel by Sarah-Kate Lynch set on an Irish dairy farm. The title is an homage to a line from the movie Monty Python, where the audience hears something that Jesus Christ said during his Sermon on the Mount. What exactly does he say, which is mentioned in the Gospel of Matthew?
Answer: Blessed are the messengers of peace
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9/10 | Cheese makers in one particular English county used to mold their cheese in the shape of a grinning cat. This was because there were a lot of rats in their dairy farms, so they had tabby cats that were happy to hunt rats. They used to cut the cheese from the tip of the tail to the last remaining piece, which was just the face. Which country was it and in which story would you encounter a character inspired by it?
Answer: Cheshire Cat in Alice in Wonderland
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10 / 10 | Cooper’s Hill is a landmark in Gloucester, England, where an event is held each year in May. It is a 180 meter long race and like a normal race the first person to cross the finish line is the winner, which is a 4kg block of round double Gloucester hard cheese. Besides being the prize, what other role does cheese play in the event?
Answer: The cheese starts the race, as it is also rolled down the hill before the runners.
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