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A Cheese & Wine Quiz To Celebrate 🧀🍷 'World Wine & Cheese Day' 25th July

  • Writer: Simon O'Donovan
    Simon O'Donovan
  • Jul 25, 2023
  • 3 min read




Have some fun with this forty-five question quiz. Enliven it with a cheese and wine tasting session at the end.

Or you could do this during the quiz, to help with identification.



Before starting, 🍷 reminisce about old wine favourites - Mateus Rosé, Black Tower, Blue Nun, Bulls Blood, Hirondel, BabyCham & Cherry B.




Discuss favourite beverages, alcohol and non alcoholic & occasions when one might imbibe.


Discuss how much more expensive wine has become and how wine glasses have become bigger.


Next, discuss cheeses. What are people's favourites?



SONGS


Some songs about wine ....




"Red, red wine, Go to my head

Make me forget that I, Still need her so"



‘Lilac Wine’ by Ellie Brooks - https://youtu.be/wZH9ilsZAFA

"Lilac wine is sweet and heady, like my love

Lilac wine, I feel unsteady, like my love"



'Hotel California' by The Eagles - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98CFJmoADO0

"Mirrors on the ceiling, the pink champagne on ice

And she said 'We are all just prisoners here, of our own device'"



'When I'm 64' by The Beatles - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERoqcOXitt0 "When I get older losing my hair, Many years from now Will you still be sending me a valentine, Birthday greetings, bottle of wine?"



"No more champagne

And the fireworks are through

Here we are, me and you

Feeling lost and feeling blue

It’s the end of the party"





PICTURE QUIZ



1. What was Wallace & Gromit's favourite cheese?





2. Name this cheesy Welsh snack?





3. Name this cheesy snack for an infant?





4. Name the cheese made in the Welsh town where Tommy Cooper was born?





5. Name this 'Red' cheese?





6. Name this cheese which is made near a Somerset gorge?





7. Name this cheese which is made from Buffalo milk?





8. Name this Indian cheese?





9. Name this Greek cheese?





10. Name this Dutch cheese?





11. Wot is this cheesy puff snack called?





12. Name this 'Blue' cheese?





13. Name this baked French cheese?





14. Name this spreadable cheese?





15. Name the Italian cheese they sprinkle over your pasta?





16. Name this garlic and herb cheese roll?





17. Name this squeaky Greek cheese?





18. Name this other soft French cheese?





19. Name this holey cheese from Switzerland?





20. Complete the name of this cheese which is apparently the best for Nachos cheese dip?


Monterey ....





21. Name this famous cracker to go with all the cheese?





22. Name this pickle "Bring out the ........"?





23. What is the best selling (internationally) white wine (it is also a girl's name)?





24. What is the best selling (internationally) red wine which comes from a grape which has the English translation "Pine" and "Black"?





25. Name this fortified (with brandy) red wine that goes very well with cheese?





26. Who invented Champagne?





27. How fast can a cork fly out of a Champagne bottle?





28. How many bottles (75cl) are in a:


- Magnum?

- Jeroboam?

- Methuselah?

- Nebuchadnezzar?





29. Name this famous wine drinker?





30. Name this famous wine drinker?





31. Name this famous wine drinker?





32. Name this famous wine drinker?





33. Name this famous wine producer?





34. Name this famous wine producer?





35. Name these famous Champagne drinkers?


'Ab Fab' wine tasting sketch - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K706oNKwVF0





36. Name this famous wine drinker?





37. Name this famous Champagne waster?





38. Name this famous Champagne drinker?





39. Name this famous Champagne drinker?





40. Name this famous Champagne drinker?





41. Name this famous Champagne drinker?





42. Which type of wine did Hannibal Lecter like to eat liver with?





43. Name the TV sitcom & the characters?





Comedy 'Falling through the bar' sketch - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63rcdLeXiU8



44. Name the TV shows & bars/pubs & characters?





45. Name this drink?





46. Final question. Name these two actors & (before watching) the drink?






FINAL SONG (SING ALONG)




'Drunken Sailor', Fisherman's Friends - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGyPuey-1Jw




CHEERS!






ANSWERS



1. Wensleydale



2. Welsh Rarebit



3. Babybel



4. Caerphilly



5. Red Leicester



6. Cheddar



7. Mozarella



8. Matar Paneer



9. Feta



10. Edam



11. Wotsits



12. Blue Stilton



13. Camembert



14. Dairylea



15. Parmesan



16. Roule



17. Halloumi



18. Brie



19. Gouda



20. Monterey Jack



21. Ritz



22. Branston



23. Chardonnay



24. Pinot Noir



25. Port



26. The French monk Dom Perignon (in 1697)



27. Up to 50mph (which is why you should not point the bottle at anyone!)



28. Magnum = 2, Jeroboam = 6, Methuselah = 8 Nebuchadnezzar = 20



29. Donald Trump



30. Queen Elizabeth



31. Keith Floyd



32. Ricky Gervais



33. Graham Norton



34. Gary Barlow



35. Jennifer Saunders & Joanna Lumley (Edine Monsoon & Patsy Stone) 'Absolutely Fabulous'



36. Nigella Lawson



37. Lewis Hamilton



38. Audrey Hepburn



39. Marilyn Monroe



40. Camilla Parker-Bowles



41. Leonardo De Caprio



42. Chianti



43. 'Last Of The Summer Wine' / Combo, Clegg, Foggy & Nora Batty



44. 'Coronation Street' (Bett Lynch), 'Only Fools And Horses' / 'Nag's Head' (Del Boy & Rodney)

'Eastenders' (Peggy Mitchell), 'The Simpsons' / 'Moe's Bar' (Homer Simpson) (Duff Beer)

'Emmerdale', 'Cheers' (Sam Malone)



45. 'Babycham'



46. Leonard Rossiter & Joan Collins / 'Cinzano Bianco'




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