Food & Drink
Tagliatelle is a type of what?
Pasta
What is the protein that is a key material in scales, hair, nails, feathers, horns, claws, hooves, and more?
Keratin
In what language is the Magna Carta (a royal charter of rights agreed to by King John of England) written?
Latin
Miso, a traditional Japanese cooking ingredient, is a paste made from what type of beans?
Soy
The opening lines of which notoriously lengthy classic Russian novel are in French?
War and Peace
To which U.S. state would you travel to sample authentic Cajun cooking?
Louisiana
What are noctilucent, cirrus, and cirrostratus categories of?
Clouds
According to Barry Manilow, what is the name of the showgirl at The Copacabana?
Lola
If a steak was cooked to be very rare, what colour would be used to describe it?
Blue
What is the most easterly of the 48 contiguous U.S. states?
Maine
What white ribbed, red cabbage is named from Italian for Chicory?
Radicchio
An organism that lives on or in a host animal at their expense would be called a what?
Parasite
What derivative of cocaine is often used in dental surgeries as an anaesthetic?
Lidocaine
What do we call the fruiting body of a subterranean ascomycete fungus which is highly prized in cooking (and expensive)?
Truffle
The storming of The Bastille took place in 1789, on the 14th of which month?
July
The main ingredients of Vichyssoise are onions, potatoes, cream, chicken stock, and which other vegetable?
Leek(s)
Anything that occupies space and has mass is generally known as what?
Matter
What type of paper is used to test if things are acid or alkali?
Litmus
What type of milk is a basic ingredient of many Thai dishes?
Coconut Milk
Which American rock band formed in 1969 in Houston, Texas, was comprised of Billy Gibbons, Frank Beard, and Dusty Hill?
ZZ Top
Marmalade was originally made from which fruit that looks a bit like a pear?
Quince
With the chemical formula HCl, what type of acid is produced in the stomach?
Hydrochloric
In The Bible, whose wife was turned into a pillar of salt?
Lot
When preparing which creature for food might you find "Dead Man's Fingers"?
Crab
Which Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet, designed the uniforms for the Vatican City's Swiss Guards?
Michelangelo Buonarroti