Cake: A Slice of Happiness!

#55 Week 12

Author

Sigrun Sørumgård
March 18, 2025

Test your cake knowledge with this sweet quiz!

  1. Which cake is named after a Russian ballerina named Anna?

  2. Which European capital city does the famous chocolate cake “Sachertorte” come from?

  3. What time of year do Italians eat Panettone cake?

  4. Which cake consists of savoiardi, often called finger biscuits, soaked in coffee and/or Marsala and mascarpone cream.

  5. Which country does the Black Forest Gâteau cake come from - a party cake with dark chocolate and cherries?

  6. What three ingredients do you need to make marzipan?

  7. What is the British cake, named after a queen, made of sponge cake, jam and buttercream?

  8. A little song while baking this cake might be nice, but you need Jaconde cake bases made of eggs, flour, almond flour and icing sugar and soaked in coffee syrup, ganache, coffee cream, and then covered with a chocolate glaze to make this light and delicate cake called what?

  9. Which type of cake is soaked in honey or syrup and is common in Middle Eastern and Greek cuisine?

  10. Which famous cake is said to have originated in New York and is known for its creamy, dense texture?

The Wonder Wall

  • The term "cake" has a long history. The word itself is of Viking origin, from the Old Norse word "kaka".

  • The earliest versions of cake were actually flat, compact discs of grain which were dried and compacted together. The closest resemblance to the cakes we enjoy today actually didn’t appear until the early 18th century, as before this time, they were raised with yeast and closer to bread than cakes.

  • For over a thousand years the Chinese have celebrated the mid-Autumn festival with round moon cakes. Legend has it that during rebellions against the Mongol rulers in the fourteenth century, messages were hidden inside the cakes.

Yesterday´s Questions & Answers

  1. What does the word philosophy mean?

    Love of wisdom

  2. Who famous philosopher was also a teacher of Alexander the Great?

    In 343 BCE, when Alexander was thirteen years old, the famous philosopher Aristotle was brought to Pella to serve as Alexander's tutor, teaching Alexander ethics, politics, and rhetoric.

  3. What is the name of Plato's most famous work, in which he describes the ideal state?

    The Republic. It is set in the house of Cephalus in Piraeus, the port city of Athens, around 410 BC. The dialogue is retold by Socrates to Timaeus, Hermocrates, and Critias, among others, the day after it took place. The work is divided into ten books as it was originally written on ten scrolls.

  4. Which 17th-century philosopher said, "I think, therefore I am" (Cogito, ergo sum)?

    Cogito, ergo sum, coined by the French mathematician and philosopher René Descartes in his Discourse on Method (1637) as a first step in demonstrating the attainability of certain knowledge.

  5. Which Chinese philosopher became known for the Five Virtues: humanity, following customs, rituals and traditions, the morally right, prudence and finally trustworthiness?

    Confucius

  6. Which Danish philosopher is known as the "father of existentialism"?

    Søren Kierkegaard

  7. Which French philosopher wrote The Second Sex about women's rights?

    Simone de Beauvoir

  8. What is the study of existence called?

    Metaphysics

  9. Which German philosopher wrote Critique of Pure Reason?

    Immanuel Kant

  10. Which philosopher said “God is dead, and we have killed him.”

    Friedrich Nietzsche