1. Argentina
   Cuba
2. Spain
   The United States

You say "Cuban," we say "cigar!" Despite a longtime U.S. trade embargo with Cuba, Americans are just as mad about Cuban cigars as people in other countries.

1. A dark place, like a cellar
   A humidor
2. A vacuum pack
   A refrigerator

As the name suggests, a humidor is a box or case that provides a humid (but not too damp) atmosphere for cigar storage. Most humidors are made of wood.

1. Cedar
   Mahogany
2. Manzanita
   Both #1 and #2

While cigars are more valuable when they're made of just one kind of tobacco, a good humidor is often built from a mix of cedar and mahogany woods. Manzanita, a scrub brush found in the American west, isn't often used.

1. Palm leaves
   Old copies of communist newspapers
2. Plain paper
   Tobacco leaves

While old copies of Communist newspapers would be awesome, it would also be impractical, as a lot of cigars come from capitalist countries. No, they're wrapped in tobacco leaf -- one significant difference from cigarettes, which have rolling papers.

1. The binder
   The corona
2. The filler
   The wrapper

A "corona" is a standard-shape cigar with a length of between 5 and 6 inches. It has one end open and one end capped.

1. True
2. False

Tampa, Florida, is actually a significant maker of cigars. Tobacco itself, of course, is grown across the American Southeast.

1. Cigar Aficionado
   Cigar Spectator
   Smoke
2. #1 and #3
   All of them

"Cigar Aficionado" is owned by the same publisher as "Wine Spectator," but the name is not the same. "Aficionado" was likely chosen because it is a term that evokes Spain and Latin America. "Smoke" is a rival publication.

1. Only three seconds
   About ten seconds
2. Ten to 20 seconds
   Don't inhale!

Unlike cigarettes, cigars are made to be puffed. The smoke is not drawn into the lungs. This is part of the basis for cigar lovers' claim that cigars are healthier than cigarettes.

1. It's excellent!
   It's made of one tobacco strain
2. It's too tightly rolled
   It's cheap

A cigar that is too tightly packed and rolled doesn't allow rich flavors to develop. However, if leaves are too loose, a cigar will burn too fast. It's a tradeoff.

1. Bush Sr.
   Kennedy
2. Nixon
   Wilson

Kennedy bought up more than 1,000 Cuban cigars before instituting the ban. (Sigh. Another idol of incorruptibility falls).

1. Fresco
   Guapo
2. Puro
   Unido

Naturally, cigars are a bit more valuable when they have this quality. It's not unlike whisky, which can be single-malt or blended.

1. Youth
   Health
2. Sexiness
   Wealth

Don't believe us? A survey showed that the readership of "Cigar Aficionado" reported an average household income of $194,000. There's a reason why rich men in cartoons are often shown waggling cigars.

1. Cohiba
   Rothschilds
2. Parliaments
   Swisher Sweet

Cohibas are associated with Cuba's national cigar company, but there is also a Dominican brand of Cohibas. These latter kind are the only Cohibas that can legally be sold in the US.

1. It contains clove and sage as filler
   It's larger
2. It's smaller
   It's wrapped in paper

Cigarillos are wrapped in tobacco leaf, like cigars (and unlike cigarettes). The difference is that they are smaller and thinner.

1. Cheroots
   Cohibas
2. Marlboros
   H. Uppmans

A cheroot is a small cigar clipped at both ends. Inexpensive to make, they were popular with the working man in South Asia, and make appearances in literature around 19th-century India and Burma.

1. CIgarettes
   Close
2. Gin
   Sorry

This saying comes from the days when cigars were a prize in carnival games. (It's hard to imagine this happening in the health-conscious 21st century.)

1. Its color
   How slow it burns
2. How long or short the leaves are cut
   Its price

The color in question is the color of the wrapper, the part of the cigar that is visible. Other colors include "candela," "maduro," and "claro."

1. The birth of a child
   Funerals
2. Wedding receptions
   Graduation ceremonies

What's the theory here, really? "My wife has just put in the hardest 10 hours she'll ever live through ... Boy, I need a smoke!"

1. Hecho a mano
   Puro
2. Volado a mano
   Totalmente al mano

"Hecho a mano" means the cigars were machine-bundled but finished by hand. However, cigars completely rolled by hand from start to finish are "totalmente a mano."

1. The Clinton-Lewinsky scandal
   The Iran-Contra affair
2. Teapot dome
   Watergate

We can't go into details here. But suffice it to say that a cigar tube took on a strange role as a phallic stand-in in the biggest political/sex scandal of the 1990s.

1. Cigar smokers indulge irregularly, not daily
   Cigars have fewer additives
   The smoke isn't inhaled
2. All of these
   None of these

Cigar smoking shouldn't be taken for a healthy habit, but it's almost certainly healthier than cigarette smoking. A lot of that has to do with the fact that cigarette smokers can easily go through a pack or more a day, while cigar smokers smoke on an irregular basis.

1. Carbon monoxide
   Hydrogen cyanide
2. Nicotine
   Cigars have all of these

Sounds appealing, doesn't it? We'll stick with our daily cup of coffee, thanks!

1. Centro
   Filler
2. Primo
   Hoja

Despite the unflattering name, the "filler" is probably the most important part of the cigar. It provides most of the taste, and the tightness or looseness of its leaves dictates the quality of the smoking experience.

1. The usual reason: cost-efficiency
   It provides a better flavor
2. It avoids health harm to workers
   It creates a longer, slower-smoking cigarette

Cigar-making was mechanized for the same reasons that nearly all industries get mechanized: It's faster and cheaper. That's why machine-made (or at least machine-finished) cigars will cost you less than hand-rolled.

1. True
2. False

While hand-rolling is a highly-respected tradition in Cuba, the country's two state-run manufacturers also use machines. However, many people who take the effort to find Cuban cigars want hand-rolled ones.

1. China
   Italy
2. Australia
   The United States

That's right, the United States has an real taste for cigars. Germany comes in second.

1. To keep individual cigars from being crushed or damaged when out and about
   So as not to burn your fingers while smoking
2. To collect ash in
   For after-hours fun with one's intern

For larger numbers of cigarettes, you might own a cigar case as well. Some are even designed to preserve humidity, like portable humidors.

1. To cut off the cap of the cigar
   Because leaves are sometimes too long
2. To share half a cigar with a friend
   To cut off the cigar band

These look a bit like nail trimmers for pets. There's a circular opening and a blade that goes across, guillotine-style.

1. Binder
   Corps
2. Equator
   There is no name for it

Binder leaves are bit tougher than the wrapper. They are also allowed to have some discoloration or irregularities, which the wrapper should not have.

1. A cigar's dimensions and shape
   The amount of time a cigar lasts
2. A cigar with blended tobacco
   A cigar from African tobacco

Cigarettes vary quite little in length and width and shape, but not so cigars. To a cigar lover, "vitola" is very important.

1. Anillo
   Fidelio
2. Parejo
   Vivo

"Parejo" means "similar" in Spanish; the name might come from the fact that this is the familiar or expected shape for a cigar. It's a cylindrical cigar with one end open, one capped, and straight sides.

1. Extrano
   Figurado
2. Izquierdo
   Mirador

This term essentially means "shaped." Shapes within this category include the "torpedo" and the "pyramid."

1. To ensure no one was smuggling tobacco out
   To enforce union rules, like breaks
2. To read the labels and check spelling and grammar
   To read stories to the workers

The "lector" read books to workers rolling cigars, to keep them from getting bored. This lovely tradition has largely died out with the advent of audiobooks, but is recalled in the stage play "Anna in the Tropics," about the reading of "Anna Karenina."

1. The 1970s
   The 1980s
2. The 1990s
   The 2000s

Yes, for a time, we were all encouraged to believe that nothing was hotter that a sexy young woman smoking a cigar. We suspect this died out because men did not, in fact, find it sexy for their girlfriends to look like a 19th-century robber baron.

1. Connecticut
   Tennessee
2. West Virginia
   None of these

Surprised? Connecticut, generally thought of as a Yankee state, is home to "Connecticut Shade" tobacco. You can see the protective canopies over the fields as you drive some of the Nutmeg State's highways.