Ready to test your wits? This week's Sunday quiz offers a delightful mix of brain-teasers spanning culinary terms, the natural world, and some classic general knowledge. It's the perfect way to while away a weekend afternoon and learn a few surprising facts along the way.
Food and Drink Conundrums
The culinary section will take your taste buds on a tour. Do you know which fruit a Spaniard calls La Zarzamora? Can you pinpoint the exact French region that gave the world Chardonnay wine? The quiz also asks what spirit transforms a Bloody Mary into a Bloody Maria, and what type of food Tempura is.
Further gastronomic puzzles include identifying the vegetable you'd receive if you ordered El Chiriva in Spain, and naming the country where tempura cooking originated. You'll also need to know what a mangetout is, what Périgord in France is famous for, and which common crop goes by the Latin name Beta Vulgaris. Finally, a question for savvy UK shoppers: what is the symbol for the Assured Food Standards used on packaging?
Creatures Great and Small
The nature round delves into the animal kingdom's quirks. It asks what group of creatures is collectively known as an intrusion, and what type of animal a Dhole is. You'll need to recall the average life expectancy of a squirrel and identify an insect that can spend a year as a larva but only a single day as an adult.
Other questions probe your knowledge of a Coelacanth, ask what an Angelshark is better known as, and determine what variety of insect a Cicada is. Can you name the type of creature an Orfe is, or what insect a Spaniard calls Una Mariquita? The round finishes by asking which European country the Mastiff breed of dog originates from.
Last Week's Answers Revealed
For those curious about previous challenges, here are the answers to the general knowledge and cryptic nursery rhyme questions from December 20.
The general knowledge answers were: 1. Back, 2. Ben Jonson, 3. Manchester, 4. Six, 5. [a] "Summer in the City", [b] "Take Back the City", [c] "Summertime City", [d] "City of Blinding Light", and [e] "Paradise City", 6. David Soul, 7. An open sandwich, 8. Curtis Jackson, 9. Wing shaped, 10. Battlements.
The cryptic nursery rhyme clues were solved as: 1. Oranges and Lemons, 2. There was an old woman who lived in a Shoe, 3. Little Boy Blue, 4. Wee Willie Winkie, 5. Hey Diddle Diddle, 6. Humpty Dumpty, 7. Sing a song of sixpence, 8. Doctor Foster, 9. The Grand Old Duke of York, 10. Little Miss Muffett.
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