Pasta Shape Identification Quiz

by Kat Kinsman, Posted Mar 30th 2008 @ 3:07PM

Know your fusilli from your farfalle? Campanelle from cavatelli? Put your pasta savvy to the test with this photo ID quiz, then come back and share your score.

AOL Food: Pasta Shape Identification Quiz

(Addendum - all of the pastas were purchased at either Whole Foods or Steve's C-Town, my local grocery store in Brooklyn. No need to hit the specialty shops. If you've got any questions about the brands, let me know in the comments, and I'll try to help you locate 'em.)

Filed Under: Cooking With Kids, Guilty Pleasures, Ingredients
Tags: grains, guilty pleasures, italy

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3-30-2008 @3:24PM Jennifer said... That quiz made me hungry. :)
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3-30-2008 @3:23PM linds said... toughie

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3-30-2008 @3:27PM matt1lopez said... I am so Hungry now!
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3-30-2008 @3:29PM Donna said... I got 20 out of 24 - Not bad for someone Polish. But I do love my pasta.

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3-30-2008 @3:30PM andi said... wow so i totally failed.
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3-30-2008 @3:31PM marie said... I know most of my pastas and I used most of them. Two, however, were new to me.
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3-30-2008 @3:31PM Donna said... I got 20 of 24 - Not bad for someone Polish. I do love my pasta
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3-30-2008 @3:35PM La Vamp said... Bravo!
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3-30-2008 @3:32PM RS said... 16 out of 24. Not too bad for an American I guess.
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3-30-2008 @3:34PM Marie said... 22 out of 24. I know my pastas. The two I got wrong are new to me, but I will try them.
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3-30-2008 @3:42PM Angela Pitt said... I took the quiz and did pretty well; 17 out of 24.
Now I'm going to make spaghetti!
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3-30-2008 @3:48PM angelmoon said... 24 of 24...just love pasta
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3-30-2008 @3:49PM maurizio said... strozzapreti, pappardelle, manicotti and bucatini
I like them all when I listen to Puccini
buon pranzo!
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5-05-2008 @9:33AM Vic said... 19/24 .... not bad considering that I haven't been shopping lately ....
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3-30-2008 @6:58PM Bumpy said... I was pleasantly surprised with 18 out of 24 right. I cook to eat, love pasta, but cook it seldom. Too old, alone, too many handicaps, aches and pains. I eat out as often as possible.
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3-30-2008 @3:55PM Cranson said... i only got 14 out of 24 and i lived in naples, italy for two years. in fact, my son was born there so he has dual citizenship! he has to declare whether he wants to be an italian or an american before he turns eighteen. how cool is that ...
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3-30-2008 @3:53PM O'Keefe said... 19 right, and I am 100% Irish, holy cow. I'd rather cook than do anything else, my favorite pasttime
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3-30-2008 @3:54PM Mary Franklin said... Two-thirds right, one third wrong. I need to review my Pastas. But I do like to eat 'em, in almost any shape! Even though I grew up first in a rice culture and then a potato culture!
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3-30-2008 @3:54PM Melanie said... 19 out of 24, not bad for only being half Italian!!!
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3-30-2008 @4:30PM Barbara said... I got 15 out of 24. Would have had 20 but changed answers. Just goes to show ya "Stay with your FIRST CHOICE." Tonights supper will be pasta.
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