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Hugh Fearlessly Eats It All Quiz

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1: Medlars (the apple-like fruit of the medlar tree) are traditionally ‘bletted’ before being used in the kitchen. This means they are...
c) left to go a bit rotten

2: In his Complete Herbal, Culpeper warns that peaches cause...
a) lust

3: Bannock-fluke is the old Scottish name for what?
d) a turbot

4: The common ingredient in dishes called Du Barry is...
c) cauliflower

5: Aristotle believed that elvers (baby eels) came spontaneously from where?
d) the bowels of the earth

6: Chicken of the wood is a colloquial name for...
b) a yellow mushroom

7. The deadly poisoion ricin can apparently be made at home from which of the following foods?
a) kidney beans

8: Lord Archer’s legendary Christmas parties always served?
d) Shepherd’s pie and Krug

9: The most poisonous parts of the Fugu (a puffer fish prized in Japan for the delicacy of its flesh as sashimi) are:
c) the reproductive organs

10: During the war, ‘mock grouse’ was created by stuffing a kipper inside what?
a) a pigeon

11: What was the first canned fish?
a) the tuna in Florida in 1810

12: Ethically speaking you should not drink Campari if you are:
a) a vegetarian

13: According to the Goodies, the Lancastrian martial art of Ecky Thump involved striking your opponent with which food item?
d) a black pudding

14: The Greek wine retsina gets its distinctive taste from the addition of:
c) pine resin

15: What was the affectionate food-related nickname of the legendary jazz-blues pianist whose real name was Ferdinand Lamothe?
c) Jelly Roll

16: What kind of animal is a hogget?
a) a sheep

17: Falstaff, Peer Gynt and Oliver are all types of what?
b) Brussels sprout

18: Who sang ‘Life Is a Minestrone’?
b) 10cc

19: In 1840 a German philosopher and scientist by the name of Justus Liebig invented what?
a) Oxo

20: The ugli fruit is the hybrid of a grapefruit and a what?
c) A tangerine

21: The officially recognized hottest chilli in the world was grown in:
c) Dorset

22: What was Mrs Beeton’s first name?
a) Isabella

23: Ground Elder is an edible weed but it should not be consumed after it has begun to flower. Why?
c) It becomes strongly laxative

24: Soufflé Rothschild contains fruit macerated in a liqueur containing ...
a) Gold

25: ‘Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety: other women cloy the appetites they feed: but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.’ Who was she?
b) Cleopatra

26: Which Martin Scorsese film contains a lesson on the art of slicing garlic for a tomato sauce?
c) Goodfellas

27: Which root veg did Uncle Monty in Withnail and I consider ‘infinitely more beautiful than the rose’?
c) The carrot

28: Yabba is the Australian for:
d) crayfish