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Country or Cheese Quiz
Stilton? Slovakia? Roquefort? Russia? Test if it's a place or a cheese
Stilton? Slovakia? Roquefort? Russia? Test if it's a place or a cheese
Stilton is so protected that it can only legally be made in 3 English counties — and ironically, it cannot be made in the village of Stilton itself. With 50 questions on cheese geography, PDO protections, place names, and the surprising words that are both, this quiz will make you second-guess everything you think you know about dairy and maps.
Each round presents 10 randomized questions from a pool of 50, with four multiple-choice options and instant feedback after every answer. Your final score comes with a performance tier and shareable results.
You'll explore protected designation of origin (PDO) cheeses, which place names also name famous cheeses, the geography of European cheese-making regions, and the surprising tricky cases where a word is simultaneously a place, a region, and a world-famous cheese.
No sovereign countries share their exact name with a cheese, but many regions and places do: Cheshire, Cheddar, Wensleydale, Stilton, and Cornish Yarg are all English places that also name famous cheeses. Gruyère, Emmental, and Appenzeller are Swiss regions and cheeses.
Roquefort is a French blue cheese that can only be made in the caves of Combalou near Roquefort-sur-Soulzon in the Aveyron department of southern France. It holds an AOP (Appellation d'Origine Protégée) designation, the strictest form of geographic protection.
Stilton cheese can only be made in three English counties: Derbyshire, Leicestershire, and Nottinghamshire. The village of Stilton is in Cambridgeshire — which is not one of the designated counties — so by law, no Stilton can be produced there despite being the place that gave the cheese its name.
Last updated: April 2026