Jicama tacos at Ariel's Restaurant in Brookfield Credit: Don Eggert

Can you tell the difference between The Alchemist’s Heady Topper and Hill Farmstead Brewery’s Edward in a blind taste test? Do you know what hen-of-the-woods are? Have you eaten at every new Vermont restaurant that’s opened this year?

For Vermont Restaurant Week, Seven Days tested the knowledge of Vermonters in a fierce 71-question trivia challenge held at Nectar’s in Burlington. Only one team emerged triumphant — the team from Prohibition Pig, scoring a total of 56 out of 71 possible points.

What follows is a peek at the questions our competitors tackled. Put your knowledge to the test with 16-questions test that will challenge your familiarity with the Vermont restaurant scene, as well as your general culinary prowess.

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Melissa was a food writer at Seven Days.

Hannah Palmer Egan was a Seven Days food writer from 2014-2019. She was a 2017 James Beard Journalism Award finalist for her coverage of Vermont's food and agriculture industries, and received food writing awards from the Association of Alternative Newsmedia....

Ethan de Seife was an arts writer at Seven Days from 2013 to 2016. He is the author of Tashlinesque: The Hollywood Comedies of Frank Tashlin, published in 2012 by Wesleyan University Press.