FUNDAMENTALS

May prominent cultures across the world have their own varieties of cheese. Today’s quiz will take you on a cheesy world tour.

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CHEESY STORIES

1. Which cheese, a favourite in pizzas, takes its name from the diminutive of the word in Neapolitan dialect which means "cut."?

2. Which village in the Sedgemoor district of the country of Somerset in England gives its name to a popular cheese?

3. It was a trick supposedly learnt by Joseph E. Davies, US ambassador to Soviet Union from Franklin D Roosevelt. This trick has now entered the English language. What trick?

4. Some cheese have holes which are caused by carbon dioxide gas bubbles that are produced by bacteria during fermentation. What is name given to the holes in the such cheese?

5. An apocryphal French legend tells the story of a shepherd who espied a beautiful girl while he was eating his lunch at a cave. He left his lunch of bread and cheese to pursue the girl. Several months later, he came upon his abandoned lunch to discover that the cave’s mold had transformed the cheese into something far tastier. Which cheese?

6. Emmental is the most popular cheese to emerge from Switzerland. From which country did Gouda and Edam originate?

7. Which book which has sold more than 26 million copies worldwide in 37 languages and remains one of the best-selling business books has ‘Cheese’ in its title?

8. Name the traditional all natural cheese made from buttermilk which is popular in Nepal, Sikkim, North Bengal, Bhutan and Tibet?

9. This cheese is named after a town in West Bengal founded by the Portuguese. It was originally made by Burmese cooks under Portuguese supervision and is now made in villages of Tarakeshwar and Bishnupur. Name this cheese?

ANYTHING GOES

1. What was based on the design of Adrian Smith, the wind engineering expertise of Peter Irwin, Rope access knowledge of Mick Flaherty, the construction skills of David Bradford, the technical proficiency of Eric Tomlich and hundreds of other engineers and workers? (Rajeev Lochan, Kolkata)

2. Which island in Australia was so named by Captain William Mynors who sighted it to honour a particular day on which the island was seen? (Vaishnnavi Purram, Secunderabad)

3. Kei Nishikori reached the U.S. Open tennis Grand Slam final in 2014. He is only the second male Japanese tennis player to reach a Grand Slam tennis Final . The first Japanese male to achieve this was almost

100 years ago. Identify this tennis player? (BK Harinath, Mysuru)

4. Reginald Dyer, the butcher of Amritsar, the man who ordered the firing at Jallianwala Bagh, was called on urgent basis on 11th April from another city. Which city ? (Somen Sengupta, Kolkata)

5. What is "poly-Oxime" that was developed recently by Indian researchers and was making news?(Dr Shanu Chandran, Vellore)

6. During the Manhattan Project, U-235 enriched bomb was code named ‘little boy’ while Pu-239 enriched bomb was code named ‘fat man’, but which scientist was code named ‘Nicholas baker’?(Gargee Sarkar, Bankura)

7. Edgar Allan Poe once wrote a poem wherein ‘ Elizabeth it is in vain you say’ was the first line ‘ & ‘His -folly-pride-and-passion-for he died’ was the last line. If anyone tries to read the first letter of each line, he/she would get the word ‘’Elizabeth’’. What figure of speech describes such a poem? (Partha Sarkar, Kolkata)

8. Which variety of lightweight cloth cloth is believed to have derived its name from a city, now in partial ruins? (Philip Joshua, Secunderabad)