Aaron Barnhart

Quiz | Know your cocktails

Updated: 2012-08-21T17:07:54Z

How much do you know about cocktails? Take the Paris of the Plains Cocktail Festival quiz to learn about classic cocktails.

1. What’s the difference between a Tom, John or Vodka Collins?

2. For that matter, how is a Collins different from a fizz?

3. Which type of Scotch is preferred in a Blood and Sand?

4. What is orgeat?

5. Which ingredient gives an Aviation cocktail its sky-blue color?

6. List the ingredients in a Stinger.

7. When was the recipe for the classic Champagne cocktail first published?

8. What kind of sugar is used to make an Irish coffee?

9. Which variation on a Manhattan uses Scotch whisky?

10. The Cosmopolitan shot to fame after which celebrity was spotted sipping one in New York?


Answers:

1. The John Collins is made with American whiskey and a Tom Collins with London Dry gin. You already know the last answer.

2. They are the same cocktail, except a Collins is served in a tall (or Collins) glass with ice, and garnished with an orange slice or cherry.

3. Blended.

4. A sweet almond syrup used in Mai Tais and other cocktails.

5. Crème de violette

6. VS Cognac and white crème de menthe

7. 1862

8. Brown sugar

9. The Rob Roy

10. Madonna

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