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Do You Actually Know Anything About Table Setting Etiquette?

Knives are placed to the right of the service plate, with the blade pointing towards it.

How should knives be placed on the table?

The bread and butter plate is placed above and to the left of the service plate.

Where on the table should the bread plate be placed?

How would you position your knife and fork to alert the host or staff that you did not enjoy your meal?

Which number in the image below represents the dessert spoon?

How would you place your knife and fork if you thought the meal was excellent?

The seafood fork is the only fork that may be placed on the right.

Which type of fork may be placed on the right hand side of the place setting?

The others are the champagne flute, red wine glass, white wine glass, and sherry glass, respectively. The water glass is always to the far left, with whichever glasses are present then placed in their positions around it.

Which number in the image below represents the water goblet?

Red wine glasses have a wider globe and can be cupped in the palm of your hand if you choose, while white wine glasses have a longer stem and cylindrical globe and should only be held by the stem.

Which type of wine glass should you only ever hold by the stem?

Since more people use salt than pepper, the salt should generally be placed to the right of the pepper, so it closer to the right hand. Salt and pepper should never be used before first tasting the food.

How should salt-and-pepper shakers be placed?

You pretty much know that you should start from the outside and work your way in but that's about it. Good thing you aren't planning on dining with the Queen any time soon.

You're not great at table setting etiquette!

You definitely know enough to attend a formal dinner and not make an utter fool of yourself, but you'd probably have to Google a thing or two if you had to set a table of your own. All in all, you did a decent job.

You're pretty good at dining etiquette!

You know you should NEVER scoop with a fork and you could practically set a table with your eyes closed. Well done!

You're an etiquette expert!

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You Can Only Eat Dinner If You Get 8/11 On This Quiz

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