another 7/10

Much better than yesterday, 9/10 could/should have been a 10/10, was too fast on nr6 saw the first three answers and clicked kinshasa before I had seen the 4th..

(sub Saharan I know)

Was 9/9 until the Proust question killed my roll

8/10.....gonna go wonk out & binge on a madeleine

I guessed on half the questions and got 10/10

Usually that doesn't work.

10/10, 9907!

Managed the 10/10 with a couple of lucky guesses, so a bit more than my "just desserts" today, so to speak 😂 9,887 (sorry Vermicious 😅). Was very unsure on Pavlova and Proust.

Also, love the refusal to anger either country that claims baklava 😆

10/10 by guessing that Madeleine could also be a woman he knew (I have no idea what the dessert is), but this quiz really invoked the New Zealand Taskmaster "Make the best desert" task vibes.

I think the theory that makes the most sense about baklava's origins is that: Turkics, Greeks, Assyrians all had somewhat similar desserts. When Turks came to Anatolia, all these recipes combined and became the modern day baklava. Why I think so? Because the Turkish/Turkic influence is clearly there along with local elements.

1) Mongol Yuan Dynasty era Chinese cookbooks recorded nomadic desserts. It included a dessert similar to baklava, made with honey. In Anatolia, this turned into sherbet.

2) The etymology of the name "baklava". See: The historian Paul D. Buell argues that the word baklava may come from the Mongolian root baγla- 'to tie, wrap up, pile up' composed with the Turkic verbal ending -v; baγla- itself in Mongolian is a Turkic loanword. The lexicographer Sevan Nisanyan considers its oldest known forms (pre-1500) to be baklağı and baklağu, and labels it as being of Proto-Turkic origin.

No guesses. Should have been faster

I always thought that madelines were flowers.

The theme: dessert and desert.

read both the question and the answers a couple of times before I could convince myself it didn't say trans-Siberian.

Wow first 10/10 after 150 quizzees, feels kind of underwhelming since 2 were complete blind guesses

10/10 but 5 were complete lucky guesses

9/10, 8915, my best score ever. only missed q8. got 2 or 3 by randomly guessing too

First 10/10 !!!