RiverCottage.net Quiz

This quiz is from Hugh's book, Hugh Fearlessly Eats It All. A link to the answers is included at the bottom of the page!

The Hugh Fearlessly Eats It All Quiz!

This is based on the quiz set for the Guardian in December 2004, although Hugh has added a number of new questions for this collection to make it even more challenging!

 

1: Medlars (the apple-like fruit of the medlar tree) are traditionally ‘bletted’ before being used in the kitchen. This means they are...
a) soaked in beer
b) covered in salt
c) left to go a bit rotten
d) passed through the digestive tract of a pig

2: In his Complete Herbal, Culpeper warns that peaches cause...
a) lust
b) piles
c) hallucinations
d) forgetfulness

3: Bannock-fluke is the old Scottish name for what?
a) a haggis
b) a smoked sausage
c) a lucky biscuit
d) a turbot

4: The common ingredient in dishes called Du Barry is...
a) prunes
b) leeks
c) cauliflower
d) truffles

5: Aristotle believed that elvers (baby eels) came spontaneously from where?
a) outer space
b) trees struck by lightning
c) the decomposing bodies of donkeys
d) the bowels of the earth

6: Chicken of the wood is a colloquial name for...
a) a pheasant
b) a yellow mushroom
c) a large moth
d) a cowardly gamekeeper

7. The deadly poisoion ricin can apparently be made at home from which of the following foods?
a) kidney beans
b) rice
c) cod liver oil
d) potatoes

8: Lord Archer’s legendary Christmas parties always served?
a) bangers and mash and Bollinger
b) fish and chips and Veuve Clicquot
c) bubble and squeak and Dom Perignon
d) Shepherd’s pie and Krug

9: The most poisonous parts of the Fugu (a puffer fish prized in Japan for the delicacy of its flesh as sashimi) are:
a) the fins
b) the liver
c) the reproductive organs
d) the skin

10: During the war, ‘mock grouse’ was created by stuffing a kipper inside what?
a) a pigeon
b) a potato
c) a tin of corned beef
d) a pig’s heart

11: What was the first canned fish?
a) the tuna in Florida in 1810
b) the sardine in Nantes in 1820
c) the pilchard in Cornwall in 1830
d) the salmon in Canada in 1840

12: Ethically speaking you should not drink Campari if you are:
a) a vegetarian
b) a scientologist
c) on the pull
d) allergic to penicillin

13: According to the Goodies, the Lancastrian martial art of Ecky Thump involved striking your opponent with which food item?
a) a tin of spam
b) a giant leek
c) a wedge of cheese
d) a black pudding

14: The Greek wine retsina gets its distinctive taste from the addition of:
a) smoked fish roe
b) coal
c) pine resin
d) dead snakes

15: What was the affectionate food-related nickname of the legendary jazz-blues pianist whose real name was Ferdinand Lamothe?
a) Swiss Roll
b) Cheese Roll
c) Jelly Roll
d) Fig Roll

16: What kind of animal is a hogget?
a) a sheep
b) a pig
c) a fish
d) a bird

17: Falstaff, Peer Gynt and Oliver are all types of what?
a) Aigar
b) Brussels sprout
c) Pickled herring
d) Rolling pin

18: Who sang ‘Life Is a Minestrone’?
a) Tangerine Dream
b) 10cc
c) Daryl Hall and John Oates
d) The Soup Dragons

19: In 1840 a German philosopher and scientist by the name of Justus Liebig invented what?
a) Oxo
b) Bovril
c) Marmite
d) Bloater paste

20: The ugli fruit is the hybrid of a grapefruit and a what?
a) An orange
b) A lemon
c) A tangerine
d) A lime

21: The officially recognized hottest chilli in the world was grown in:
a) Texas
b) Sri Lanka
c) Dorset
d) Mexico

22: What was Mrs Beeton’s first name?
a) Isabella
b) Arabella
c) Caramella
d) Nigella

23: Ground Elder is an edible weed but it should not be consumed after it has begun to flower. Why?
a) It becomes deadly poisonous
b) It becomes hallucinogenic
c) It becomes strongly laxative
d) It makes you impotent

24: Soufflé Rothschild contains fruit macerated in a liqueur containing ...
a) Gold
b) Frankincense
c) Myrrh
d) Cannabis

25: ‘Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety: other women cloy the appetites they feed: but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.’ Who was she?
a) Helen of Troy vb) Cleopatra
c) Desdemona
d) Fanny Cradock

26: Which Martin Scorsese film contains a lesson on the art of slicing garlic for a tomato sauce?
a) Mean Streets
b) Casino
c) Goodfellas
d) The Last Temptation of Christ

27: Which root veg did Uncle Monty in Withnail and I consider ‘infinitely more beautiful than the rose’?
a) The turnip
b) The radish
c) The carrot
d) The swede

28: Yabby is the Australian for:
a) toffee
b) kangaroo meat
c) mango
d) crayfish

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