Cheese: The answers!

Hope you got most of them right...

• The colouring of cheese is achieved by adding which ingredient? A) Annatto B) Butterfat C) Artificial dye
  Answer: Annatto

• Which country established the first factory dedicated to producing cheese in 1815? A) England B) Switzerland C) France
  Answer: Switzerland

• What were the names of the boys from "Down on the Farm"?
  Answer: Ches and Dale

• What enzyme is used to separate the curds from the whey?
  Answer: Rennet

• What are the holes in Swiss cheese referred to as? A) Eyes B) Bubbles C) Craters
  Answer: Eyes

• What kind of cheese did the French use as cannon balls when they ran out of the usual ones?
  Answer: Brie

• What country eats the most cheese per head of population?
  Answer: Greece

• How did the phrase the "Big Cheese" come about?
  Answer: Someone who was wealthy enough to purchase a whole wheel of cheese

• As a fraction, cheese takes up what volume compared to its original volume of milk?
  Answer: One tenth

• Who recently said, "It is like putting the mice in charge of the cheese" and what was the person referring to?
  Answer: 1. Sir Kerry Burke. 2. The change of Chairmanship to Alex Neill at ECan

• What else apart from a knife for cutting cheese is referred to as a cheese cutter?
  Answer: A nautical peaked cap - worn without a badge

• What is the name of the cheese factory on the way to Akaroa?
  Answer: Barry's Bay Cheese

• What type of cheese is made by re-cooking the whey after other cheese making?
  Answer: Riccota

• What is the name generally used by Italians for cheese made with sheep's milk?
  Answer: Pecorino

• What is rennet most commonly made from?
  Answer: Membrane of the fourth stomach of a young calf