Noodle or Doodle? Trivia Quiz

Answer: Noodle

Capellini (meaning "little hairs") is a pasta perfect for soups and light sauces. A commonly known variation is capelli d'angelo, which is often called simply by the English translation, angel hair pasta. Because these pastas are much thinner than other common varieties, they're often found in a nest pattern, as opposed to straight pieces like spaghetti.

Answer: Doodle

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio was a painter from the late 16th century whose works influenced the Baroque era. He used a lot of light and dark contrast elements in his paintings, a technique called chiaroscuro. The painting style is now called tenebrism, and artists influenced by Caravaggio are called tenebrists.

Answer: Caboodle

Bartolomeo Campagnoli was an 18th century violinist. A notable work is his divertissements for the solo violin, a highly regarded piece. Additionally, the piece "41 Caprices for solo viola" is often used for those learning to play violin.

Answer: Noodle

Calamarata is a pasta shaped just like calamari, thus the name. The large tube-shaped pasta is typically paired with seafood, especially squid, and the noodles are often dyed with squid ink as well.

Answer: Doodle

Baldassare Calamai was an Italian painter from the 19th century. He mainly painted historical subjects in the neoclassical style. His paintings often involve Dante, deriving works from both Dante's "Inferno" and "Divine Comedy".

Answer: Caboodle

Calamari is the term used for squid when used as food. It can often be found cut into rings, battered and lightly fried, and is delicious with a squeeze of lemon and a light tomato dipping sauce. In Japanese cuisine, it is often served raw as sushi or sashimi.

Answer: Noodle

Manicotti is a large tube pasta perfect for stuffing. It's usually filled with a ricotta mixture (meat optional) and covered in tomato sauce. It is a variation of cannelloni, which is usually stuffed with meat filling.

Answer: Doodle

Tommaso di Ser Giovanni di Simone, known as Masaccio (a nickname meaning "clumsy Tom"), was a painter from the early 15th century. Though he only lived to 26, he is often regarded as one of and greatest artists of the Italian Renaissance. He is known for his frescoes in the Brancacci Chapel, such as "The Tribute Money".

Answer: Caboodle

Ennio Morricone was a composer who wrote the score for many films. His score for "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" is considered to be one of the most recognizable soundtracks in film history. He won an Academy Award in 2016 for "The Hateful Eight", and in 2007, was only the second composer to ever receive the Academy Honorary Award.

Answer: Noodle

Caccavelle is a large bowl-like pasta designed for stuffing. It has a rough surface which makes it perfect to cling on to the sauces within. Caccavelle are typically served as an individual serving, due to the size, as a perfect edible "pot" for the meal.

Answer: Doodle

Castellini could be the last name of two separate artists; comic book artist Claudio Castellini and Baroque painter Giacomo Castellini. As far as doodles go, Claudio Castellini has turned his into comic book art, including drawing for the Fantastic Four, Spider-Man, and Batman.

Answer: Caboodle

Cannellini is a variety of beans in cooking. They are often called white kidney beans, and are similar to (but not the same as) great northern beans. They are a mild, nutty bean, perfect for soups such as Tuscan white bean soup, minestrone, or pasta e fagioli.

Answer: Noodle

Orecchiette is so named due to the ear-like shape of the pasta. Preparation of the pasta is fairly simple (my favorite pasta to make at home) as you pull dough over the counter to create a curling effect, then flip them inside out to give it the iconic ear shape. Because of the rough edges and the little cup created, they are perfect for thick, hearty sauces.

Some dishes even treat these orecchiette as shells, "stuffing" mini meatballs in each cup.

Answer: Doodle

Vincenzo Campi was an Italian realist painter from the 16th century, known for paintings such as "The Fruit Seller". He was from a family of Renaissance painters, along with his father Galeazzo and brothers Antonio and Giulio.

Answer: Caboodle

Scampi is a seafood dish, named after the langoustine (a species of lobster referred to as scampi in Italian). The term is also used for a style of preparation. In Italian-American cuisine, shrimp scampi is a delicious lemony, garlicky shrimp dish often served over rice or pasta.

Answer: Noodle

Bucatini is a thick pasta similar to spaghetti, but is hollow (buco is Italian for "hole"). This pasta is perfect for richer sauces (not too thick like a ragu) such as cacio e Pepe or carbonara. The straw-like pasta captures the sauce in its long tubes creating a unique texture and flavor experience.

Answer: Doodle

Bernardino Butinone was a 15th century Italian Renaissance painter. He worked on the polyptych of San Martino in Treviglio (his birth city) and had a series of smaller paintings showcasing the life of Jesus. These paintings are on display, not as a set, but scattered through many collections in cities such as London, Edinburgh, and Detroit.

Answer: Noodle

Cavatappi (meaning corkscrews in Italian) is a hollow, twisted variety of macaroni. Because of its corkscrew shape, it is also known as spirali or scoobi doo pasta, as it resembles the design created with the scoubidou craft of knotting.

Answer: Doodle

Bartolomeo Caporali was a 15th century painter. He contributed many works during the Renaissance period including "Virgin and Child Between Two Angel Hands", "Assumption of the Virgin", and a collaborative triptych called "Annunciation".

Answer: Caboodle

Capocollo is dried pork salume similar to prosciutto. The word references the part of the pig that the meat is derived from; 'capo' means head and 'collo' means neck, and capocollo is taken from a muscle running down the neck to the ribs. Strangely, in some parts of the United States, the American pronunciation of the word has morphed to also be called gabagool, as made more widely known by Tony on "The Sopranos".