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• Which nation has the greatest renown for their pasta?

  • Scotland

  • Italy

  • France

  • Denmark

• Which insect is this pasta dish named after?

  • Butterfly

  • Ant

  • Dragonfly

  • Moth

• The pasta known as "Vermicelli" gets its name from what type of creepy-crawly?

  • Maggots

  • Woodlice

  • Slugs

  • Worms

• "Maltagliati pasta," which is triangular, is also called "badger hair pasta" in English. False True

  • False

  • True

• Which bodily part is Linguine pasta named after?

  • The tongue

  • The ear

  • The nose

  • The eye

• Which of these foods is never used to flavor or color pasta in classic Italian recipes?

  • Chocolate

  • Squid ink

  • Blue Slush Puppy

  • Tomato paste

• Which of the following words is used to describe undercooked pasta?

  • Al dente

  • Al gore

  • Al pacino

  • Al shearer

• In Italy, what kind of pasta do people eat the most often?

  • Macaroni

  • Spaghetti

  • Penne

  • Raviolli

• They were a group of fashionable young Englishmen, founded in the 1760s, who named themselves after a delicious foreign delicacy. What name did they give themselves, please?

  • The Macaroni Club

  • Pasta Boyz

  • Brothers of the Lasagne

  • The Spaghetti Heads

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