Quiz: how well do you know cheese?

Here is a selection of products from the great cheese-producing nations of the world. How many can you identify?

• Images of individual cheeses are from the World Cheese Book by Juliet Harbutt, published by Dorling Kindersley

  1. Cheese show 1. Which cheese has been named World Champion at the World Cheese Awards 2012?

  2. 19 2. Made just 30 miles outside Paris, which famous soft cheese is this?

  3. 20 3. Wheels of this mountain cheese have characteristic concave sides. What is it?

  4. 17 4. This goat's cheese bears the emblem and name of a famous Christian heresy. What's it called?

  5. 10 5. The rind of this AOC-protected French cheese is washed in annatto. What is it?

  6. 3 6. This is one of the excellent goat's cheeses from the Loire valley. Which?

  7. 7 7. Unusually, this cheese is made without the use of salt. What's it called?

  8. 9 8. Perhaps the most famous Spanish cheese, what is this?

  9. 15 9. In the 15th century this famous English cheese was made with ewe's milk, but it's now a cow's milk cheese. What is it?

  10. 2 10. This classic blue cheese benefits from overnight ripening of the curds for a buttery texture. What is it?

  11. 11 11. This cheese is made by combining curds from three consecutive days. From which English county does it hail?

  12. 16 12. This is Cornish Yarg, a relatively newly created cheese. What sort of leaves is it wrapped in?

  13. 1 13. What's the name of this English camembert-style cheese?

  14. 18 14. The Ministry of Food temporarily halted production of this cheese during the war. What is it?

  15. 13 15. This cheese accounts for almost two-thirds of the Netherlands' production. What is it?

  16. 14 16. Carbon dioxide produced by bacteria present during maturation give this cheese its holes. What is it?

  17. 12 17. The unique texture of this cheese results from kneading of the curds. What is it?

  18. 6 18. This cheese is so valuable and slow to mature it's used as collateral for bank loans. What is it?

  19. 4 19. This is perhaps the most famous ewe's milk cheese in the world. What is it?

  20. 8 20. This is Monterey Jack from California, but which of the many varieties is it?

  21. 5 21. For 500 years before the French Revolution this cheese was a tax dodge. What is it?

  22. 21 22. BONUS QUESTION! If you think you know cheese, you really ought to be able to name this one ...

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