S17 E9 - Getting Saucy

Quiz and Hers

As the season winds down, this week Justin has written six trivia questions that all (sort of) relate to the famous “mother sauces” of French cuisine! We also dig into discussions of soccer, high fantasy, and 90s music!

2:25: Q1 (Sports & Games): Which mother sauce is also a word that the French might use to describe the national football team of the Netherlands?

8:37: Q2 (Arts & Literature): Sauce Robert, a daughter of sauce espagnole, shares its name with the first name of what American fantasy author, best known for the Wheel of Time series?

15:30: Q3 (Movies & TV): What TV character portrayed by James Gandolfini once quipped that the Italian version of Chicken Soup for the Soul is “tomato sauce for your ass”?

24:05: Q4 (Times & Places): A daughter of sauce velouté is named for what region of France, where the Allies landed on June 6, 1944?

29:17: Q5 (Music): What alt-rock band fronted by Billy Corgan performed a song called “Mayonnaise”?

36:25: Q6 (Everything Else): Bechamel sauce, along with other five we’ve already mentioned, were codified as the “mother sauces” by what Frenchman, called the “king of chefs and chef of kings”?

Theme music: "Thinking it Over" by Lee Rosevere, licensed under CC BY 2.0

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