A listing of our past winners (in reverse chronological order):

2/24/10

Question: What regional "departement" in France also shares its name with a river, a melon and a fortified wine?
Correct Answer: Charente

Extra credit: What is the fortified wine?
Extra Credit Answer: Pineau des Chartentes

4 Winners

  • Joe Titone
  • Hannah Beck
  • Michael Rockwell
  • Anne Rosen
     

2/17/10

In France stands a statue erected in honor of the legendary creator of one of the worlds most famous soft cheeses (Hint: When not busy inventing famous French cheeses, she apparently liked to wear funny hats).

Question 1: What is the name of the cheese?
Answer 1: Camembert

Question 2: What is her name?
Answer 2: Marie-Harel

5 Winners

  • John Seals
  • Sandra Pappalardo
  • Jim Crandall
  • Alicia Wallace
  • Joy Casas*

*Special Winner for her clever comment. We love clever comments!

2/10/10

Question: You have just received a gift of one dozen eggs from a friend. Your friend assures you that the eggs are very fresh, but you are dubious. You decide to check their freshness by floating them in a solution and judging their buoyancy.

Correct Answer: 1/2 cup of 100% salt solution in 4 cups of water

Extra Credit Question: What time did the train leave the station?

Extra Credit Answer: 5:33

5 Winners

  • Dana Okamoto
  • Michael De Luca
  • John South
  • Tommy Karkoska
  • Lori Ramani*

*Gave the most creative answer to the extra credit question: "…if you're wasting your scotch and using Hamburger Helper, no train would take you"

2/3/10

Question: On the 25th of January, poetry lovers from around the world celebrated the 251st anniversary of the birth of Scotland's most revered poet, Robert Burns. At that celebration, plenty of Scotch whiskey is passed around in hopes of drowning out the bag pipe music and in preparation for the entrée. Robert Burns himself called this dish the "great chieftain o' the puddin' race".

Correct Answer: Haggis

Extra Credit Question - Who wrote the following:
"O pointy birds, o pointy pointy,
Anoint my head, anointy-nointy."

Extra Credit Correct Answer: John Lillison

Extra Extra Credit Question: How did he die?

Extra Extra Credit Answer: He was struck by a car

6 Winners!

  • Darlene Wright
  • Robert Bradshaw
  • Karen Gill
  • David Lucking
  • Sandy Okstad
  • Colby Coates

1/27/10

Question: What wine was used to christen the USS Constitution?

Correct Answer: Madeira

7 Winners!

  • Johnny McGee
  • Matthew Clark
  • Roxann Trexel
  • Maureen Murphy
  • Joy Casas*
  • Deborah Rosen*
  • Wilma Tipton*

*Special Winners

1/20/10

Question: The French make a wonderful sauce which features both wine and truffles called Perigueux sauce. What wine is traditionally used in the preperation of this sauce?

Extra Credit: Where does it come from?

Correct Answers: Madeira, which comes from the Madeira Islands in the Atlantic, (Portugal).

4 Winners:

  • Michelle St. James
  • Christina Sparks*
  • Ricardo Valenzuela
  • Bill Schnefke

Christina was first to give a correct answer for Extra Credit.

1/13/10

Question: This cured meat is primarily taken from the neck and shoulder portions of a hog (the meat must come from a hog raised in the Emilia or Lombardy regions of Italy). The meat is lovingly massaged and flavoured with a mixture of salt, pepper, sugar and various spices which may include cloves, cinnamon and laurel seed (not to mention eye of newt and ground bat toenails). The meat is then rolled up in the hog's diaphram and aged for 6 to 9 months. This cured meat product is typically served on an Antipasto plate. The name of this delicacy is...

Correct Answer: Coppa

4 Winners

  • Timothy Harper
  • Norma Zaleski
  • John Fry
  • John Adams

View a list of our 2009 Winners.