Cheese

Types of Cheese

100

This cheese is naturally a pale yellow, but it is frequently dyed. Traditionally, the more vibrant the color, the higher the price

Cheddar

200

This is possibly the most popular cheese, and it is traditionally made from buffalo's milk

Mozzarella

300

This creamy French cheese is covered in a white layer and has a yellowish interior

Brie

400

This cheese is named after a city in Holland where cheesemakers from the surrounding area still gather to have their cheese weighed, priced, and sold at the market

Gouda

500

this Italian cheese can only be produced in a certain region in Italy. It is the most imitated cheese in the world, and it's production has changed minimally since the Middle Ages.

Parmesean

Cheese in "Pop Culture"

100

This Spanish cheese originates from a region in Spain that is also known as "the land of Don Quixote"

Manchego

200

According to Homer's Odyssey, the cyclopes, Polyphemus, was the first to prepare this specific cheese.

Feta

300

This British kid's show is responsible for the survival and popularization of Wensleydale cheese.

Wallace and Gromit

400

This famous story features a character who suggests that the cheese he ate could be one of the reasons he is seeing the ghost of his old business partner

The Christmas Carol

500

Kim Jong Un is addicted to this cheese. In 2014, he allegedly withdrew from public life due to eating too much of this cheese.

Emmentaler

Cheese History

100

During part of which decade in the 1900s did Wisconsin legally require its restaurants to serve cheese with every meal?

1930s

200

This Queen of England once received a giant +1,000 pound wheel of Cheddar cheese as a wedding gift

Queen Victoria

300

Archeologists once found the remains of spreadable Egyptian cheese in a tomb. Roughly how many thousands of years old is this cheese?

3,000 years old

400

This cheese was used as cannonballs (and killed two soldiers) during a battle between Montevideo and Buenos Aries in 1841

Edam

500

The Ancient Greeks recognized this individual as the god of shepherds and cheesemaking?

Aristaeus

CHEESE

100

This is the most popular cheese recipe in the USA

Mac and Cheese

200

This cheese is also a popular salad dressing

Blue

300

This type of "cheese" is common in America, but because its manufacturing process is so different than traditional cheese, it cannot legally be sold as cheese. 

American Cheese

400

This place is one of the only places in the world (after Switzerland) that has a masters in Cheesemaking program

Wisconsin 

500

This is the largest cheese-using fast food company in the world

Pizza Hut

Cheese Facts

100

Wood pulp is very likely a filler in the unauthentic powdered stuff that you add to your spaghetti

"Parmesan"

200

Homemade mozzarella can be created with what three common household ingredients?

Milk, vinegar, and salt

300

This is what causes fresh cheese curds to squeak

Elastic protein rubbing against teeth enamel

400

This chemical compound is what causes the holes/eyes in cheeses like Swiss

Carbon Dioxide

500

The most expensive cheese in the world is mostly made from the milk of what animal?

Donkey