Sorry folks, but I can't award real points for this, you only get 'kudos ones'

A local bar has asked me to prepare a whisky evening for them which will include a tasting and a little whisky quiz, so I thought I'd try out my idea for the quiz with the good folk of the forum.

Try not to Goooooooooogle and see how many you can get right:

1. The world's best selling whisky at the end of 2009 (for that year) was from which country?
1a (A bonus point if you can name the whisky)

2. Islay is famous for its peaty, smoky style of whisky and has 8 distilleries along with one malting, name them:

3. Which Scottish region is home to the most distilleries, claiming more than half of all current Scottish distileries?

4. Name the distilleries from these anagrams:
Barged
Be Rennins
Sync Hell I
Dial when in
Bungee Girl
Eleventh Gilt
Anal Clam

5. For how long must spirit be matured before it is allowed to be called 'whisky'?

6. During maturation, about 2% of the volume of each cask is lost to evaporation each year, what is this called?


OK, so these should be quite easy, but remember, these will not be whisky people and pure beginners (so I'm told).

There are a total of 21 Kudos points up for grabs here.

A quick edit: sorry, how could I possibly put a spelling mistake in an anagram Thanks Bruce for not being confused by it!

Great quiz Keith!

I've sent you my answers... and I promise I only checked Google for one (tho it took me a while to work out some of the anagrams so I was tempted to check it for some of them!)

OK, I'll check them in a minute and post your score.

I forgot to say submit your answers by PM, so that others can still enter too.

Bruce,
many thanks for spotting my little finger trouble in mis-typing one of the anagrams, you got the point for that one and I have now corrected it in my quiz.

You yourself submitted another little typo in your answers, but I am accepting it as just that; a typo and giving you the point as it's obvious that you knew the answer and there was no 'y' in the anagram. It would also be pretty impossible for that really to end in a 'y'.

One other note, the second anagram is only one word, but you got it right.

So, well done as I award you 20 Kudos points plus the bonus point in No. 1 so a total of 21 for you.



Now, can anyone else get the full 21 and force a rather difficult tie-break question?

Lots of views, but as yet no more answers coming in.
Anyone else interested before I give out the answers?

Well done Criva, an extremely respectable 19 points.

Well done Criva!

Thanks ... same to you, but unlike you, (I admitted to Keith) I had to gooooogle a lot due to my lack of "alcohol experience".

If anyone else wishes to have a go at this, please send me your answers by Friday evening (that's tomorrow, 12th Feb.) as I will then publish the answers here, let's say around 8pm UK time.

If you like I can set another whisky quiz in a couple of weeks or so?
I will also keep track of the 'kudos points', so even if you don't know all the answers, at least have a go to get some points as you never know, points may eventually make prizes!

Another quiz would be good... and I promise to work out any anagrams a wee bit better!

I did say I would close this tonight by providing the answers, so here goes:

1. The world's best selling whisky at the end of 2009 (for that year) was from which country?
1a (A bonus point if you can name the whisky)
India - Bagpiper

2. Islay is famous for its peaty, smoky style of whisky and has 8 distilleries along with one malting, name them:
Ardbeg, Bowmore, Bruichladdich, Bunnahabhain, Caol Ila, Kilchoman, Lagavulin, Laphroaig, Port Ellen (Malting)

3. Which Scottish region is home to the most distilleries, claiming more than half of all current Scottish distileries?
Speyside

4. Name the distilleries from these anagrams:
Barged - Ardbeg
Be Rennins - Benrinnes
Sync Hell I - Clynelish
Dial when in - Dalwhinnie
Bungee Girl - Glenburgie
Eleventh Gilt - The Glenlivet
Anal Clam - Macallan

5. For how long must spirit be matured before it is allowed to be called 'whisky'?
3 (full) years

6. During maturation, about 2% of the volume of each cask is lost to evaporation each year, what is this called?
Angel's share


Well done to Criva and Bruce with your kudos points, 19 & 21 respectively.


I'll formulate another quiz sometime soon.

Of the anagrams, this is the one that took me the longest; I sussed out quickly that it included Glen in the answer (as so many, 20+, do!), which left me with e e v t h i l t! Once you see a word in whatever letters you have (in this case evil) its hard to get past that... and it wasn't helped by the fact I refer to The Glenlivet without the The; and then I made it worse in the end by substituting that last t for a y (as I very nearly did again just now! )

To be honest I expected Bungee Girl to be the one that gave people trouble, mainly because it's a lesser known distillery. In fact, as this quiz will be for beginners I wouldn't usually include it, but one of the whiskies in the tatsing will be a Glenburgie, so let's see if they are awake

Again I sussed out the Glen but and with the letters left the first word that sprung to mind was burger even tho the r wouldn't have been there... but it was easy to swap that with the i and then switch the last two letters round!

Anyway I am sure your beginners will do well... and I look forward to your next quiz here!

*Makes mental note to find distilleries using g l e n without spelling Glen. Or ones without any Glen in an attempt to confuse Bruce*