Cooking Quiz

Test your culinary knowledge about dishes, ingredients, and cuisine.

Techniques and ingredients rather than recipes: what dashi is made from, what broiling means, what sake is. The theme leans international, with Japanese and European cuisine both well represented.

1000+ questions in this theme

20 of them, with the answers

The questions, with answers

1. What is the name of the Japanese soup stock made from kelp and dried fish?

   AnswerDashi

2. Orange Pekoe is a type of what?

   AnswerTea

3. What type of food is the Indonesian dish called Klepon?

   AnswerDessert

4. What is the name of the Japanese rice wine?

   AnswerSake

5. Turducken is sometimes served in place of the Thanksgiving turkey. Do you know what it is?

   AnswerA turkey stuffed with a duck stuffed with a chicken

6. What type of meat is used in the preparation of the Indian dish called Bombay duck?

   AnswerFish

7. What is the name of the Persian/Middle Eastern spice blend containing dried rose petals?

   AnswerAdvieh

8. What is the name of the Swiss cheese with large holes?

   AnswerEmmental

9. Which bacterium is responsible for the 'eyes' in Swiss-type cheeses?

   AnswerPropionibacterium freudenreichii

10. What is the name for a diet that includes eggs and dairy but no meat?

    AnswerLacto-ovo vegetarian

11. Which fish is commonly used to make traditional British fish and chips?

    AnswerCod

12. In what country of the UK was Dunlop cheese created?

    AnswerScotland

13. In what year was the world’s first pizza parlor built?

    Answer1830

14. What is the name of the traditional British fish and chip condiment?

    AnswerMalt vinegar

15. Why is thyme tea traditionally given to women after childbirth in Jamaica?

    AnswerTo cause uterine contractions

16. What is the name of the type of knife used for precision work like peeling?

    AnswerParing knife

17. What gas causes bread to rise?

    AnswerCarbon dioxide

18. What alcoholic beverage is produced from herbs including the bitter herb commonly known as wormwood?

    AnswerAbsinthe

19. What type of dessert is the Pandoro, very popular in Italy around Christmas and New Year?

    AnswerSweet bread

20. What is the name of the Filipino shaved ice dessert with colorful toppings?

    AnswerHalo-halo