Can you take the biscuit?

★ HOBNOBS have been voted the ultimate bickie to dunk in your tea thanks to their oaty goodness.

While we all have our own favourite to pull from the tin when the kettle boils, how much do you actually know about biscuits?

★ Try out KIM CARR’S quiz, with a cuppa in hand to help you along the way of course!

1 Which biscuit with raisins in it is named after an Italian revolutionary leader?

A) Garibaldi

B) Garihairy

C) Garifluffy

2 This biscuit shares its name with a city in France but what is it called?

A) Spice B) Nice

C) Thrice

3 What orangey sponge cake caused controversy when it was declared not to be a biscuit despite being stocked in the bickie aisle in supermarkets?

A) Eccles cake B) Rock cake C) Jaffa Cake

4 Fruity jam is found in the heart-shaped centre of Jammie Dodgers but which is the original? A) Strawberry B) Raspberry C) Blackcurrant

5 What is the Scottish company behind a milk chocolate-coated caramel wafer biscuit? A) Bunnocks B) Runnocks C) Tunnocks

6 The plain variety is made at its Tollcross factory in Glasgow and the chocolate kind at the Harlesden site in London but in which year did McVitie’s launch Hobnobs? A) 1985 B) 1987 C) 1988

7 In 1874, Marie biscuits were created by London’s Peek Freans bakery to commemorate the marriage of the

Grand Duchess

Maria Alexandrovna of

Russia, above, to the Duke of which

UK city?

A) Manchester

B) Coventry

C) Edinburgh

8 They are Australia’s most popular biscuit, recently launched in the UK, but which Brit bickie inspired Tim Tams? A) Club B) Breakaway C) Penguin

9 A former European dynasty inspired the name of which famous biscuit? A) Bourbon B) Custard cream C) Oreo

10 What biscuit contains a piece of paper? A) Magic wish cookie B) Fortune cookie C)

Good luck cookie

11 At the bottom of a trifle, which biscuit is traditionally used to make the sponge?

A) Lady finger B) Lady toe C) Lady ear

12 Next month sees National Biscuit Day celebrated on which day? A) 27th B) 29th C) 1st

13 Who is the Sesame Street character that only eats cookies? A) Cookie bear B) Cookie bird

C) Cookie monster

14 Which nut is used to make ginger nuts?

A) Pecans B) Almonds C) None

15 A biscuit from the Nimrod expedition led by Ernest Shackleton, below, sold for £1,250 but where did he go with his treat?

A) Antarctic B) Australasia C) China

16 Finish the name of this popular biscuit, Kit… A) Dog

B) Kat C) Cat

17 How many plays by Shakespeare, left, mention the word biscuit?

A) None B) Three C) Two

18 Fig rolls were invented as what? A) A health food B) Aphrodisiac C) Sleeping boost

19 Digestives were made to cure A) Gout B) Farts C) Toothache

20 Millionaire’s shortbread has

which filling? A) Cream B) Money C) Caramel