Questions on Food and Drink

A dozen questions for you.  Please scroll down for the answers.

1.Chinese, Globe and Jerusalem are varieties of which vegetable?

2. Balti is known as a style of curry. What does the word balti literally mean?

3. What two fishy ingredients are essential to a salad nicoise?

4. Anjou, Bartlett and Conference are varieties of which fruit?

5. What is the name of the agent from a calf’s stomach used to curdle milk for cheeses and other dairy products?

6. What are the five spices in Chinese five-spice powder?

7. Tapioca comes from the root of which plant?

8. Carlsberg and Tuborg beers are brewed in which city?

9. What name is given to the alcoholic drink made from fermented pear juice?

10. Which three grapes are used to make champagne?

11. Tokay wine comes from which country?

12. If black tea is fermented and green tea unfermented what name is given to semi-fermented tea?

 

Answers

1. Artichoke

2. Bucket

3. Tuna and anchovies

4. Pear

5. Rennet

6. Star anise, fennel, clove, pepper and cinnamon

7. Cassava (or manioc)

8. Copenhagen

9. Perry

10. Pinot Noir, Pinot Meunier and Chardonnay

11. Hungary

12. Oolong

Questions on Natural History and Nature

Twelve questions on Nature and Natural history. For the answers scroll down the page.

 

Questions

1. Which shark, which can be seen close to the British coast, is the second largest shark in the world?

2. Which are the only two members of the monotreme (egg-laying) order of mammals?

3. Which is the world’s largest venomous snake?

4. Which primate is known colloquially as the “wild man of the woods”?

5. Which creature has the alternative name of “white ant”?

6. Which dinosaur, at up to 30 metres long, was the longest of the dinosaurs?

7. What is the name of the otter’s dwelling?

8. The bladderwrack is what sort of plant?

9. The plant with the latin name araucaria araucaria is known in English as which tree?

10. Which flower’s name comes from the Turkish word for a turban?

Birds

11. Which bird, native to British shores, has the alternative nickname of the sea-parrot?

12. The strigiformes order of birds is known in English as what group of birds?

 

Answers

1. The basking shark

2. The duck-billed platypus and the echidna

3. The king cobra

4. the orang-utang

5. The termite

6. Diplodocus

7. A holt

8. A type of seaweed

9. The monkey-puzzle tree

10. The tulip

11. The puffin

12. Owls

Questions on Art

Master Chain Question 11: Birmingham Art Gallery contains many works by Pre-Raphaelite artists.  Who painted the picture “The Blind Girl” which can be seen there?  

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Ten more questions on art arranged roughly in chronological order.

 

1. Which Florentine painter of the late 13th and early 14th centuries, a pupil of Cimabue, is sometimes called “The Father of Modern Painting”?

2. Which 14th/15th century German painter is famous for “The Isenheim Altarpiece”?

3.For which Pope did Michelangelo decorate the ceiling of the Cistine Chapel?

4. Which 16th century Flemish painter was nicknamed “Peasant”?

5. Which Dutch painter was married to Saskia van Ulenburgh?

6. What was the name of the art style of the 18th century whose most famous exponents included Watteau and Fragonard?

7. Which English group was formed in 1848 by artists including Gabriel Rossetti, Holman Hunt and Millais?

8. Whose painting “Impression, Sunrise” gave the Impressionist painters their name?

9. Which French painter is regarded as the founder of Cubism alongside Pablo Picasso?

10. Which American pop-artist whose famous works include “Whaam!” was particularly inspired by comic strips?

 

Answers

1. Giotto

2. Matthias Grunewald

3. Pope Julius II

4. Pieter Brueghel the Elder

5. Rembrandt van Rijn

6. Rococo

7. The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood

8. Claude Monet

9. Georges Braque

10. Roy Lichtenstein