50 Chocolate Trivia Questions + Cartoon Fun from Brownielocks

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1.The Baby Ruth candy bar was created in 1920 by Curtiss Candy Co. They named this bar after the baseball player Babe Ruth.

True or False?
False. It's named after President Cleveland's daughter.

2. In the chocolate making process, what are "nibs"?

(a) Broken pieces of chocolate
(b) Rejected beans
(c) Irregular raw bean fragments
(d) Coco butter part of the bean
C - After beans are roasted, they break up into pieces called nibs.

3. The first 3 Musketeers bar originally sold for how much?

(a) 3 cents
(b) 5 cents
(d) a dime
(e) one cent

B - 5 cents

4.Mozart loved chocolate so much he wrote about it in an opera?

True or False?

TRUE - In Mozart's opera "Cosi Fan Tutte" he made a reference to chocolate. Thus is this when chocolate and yodeling became synonymous? I.E. Those hot chocolate commercials on TV? :)

5. In Hershey, PA, the street lights on the main street are all shaped like Hershey Kisses?

True or False?

True. I've been there.

6. A chocolate cake should be baked at a little lower temperature than any other kind of cake.

True or False?

True. Chocolate burns easily.

7. Which continent produces the most chocolate?

(a) Africa
(b) Europe
(c) North America
(d) South America

(A) Africa - Africa produces close to double the tonnage of chocolate than South American plantations.

8.Hershey was the first company in the U.S. to manufacture chocolate.

True or False?

FALSE - It actually was first producted in 1765 by the John Harmon Company.

9. Cocoa is a native plant to Hawaii.

True or False?

FALSE - The cacao bean (tree) was brought to Hawaii around 1830. (Remember, it is addictive. So, "someone" needed their chocolate fix and had to grow the tree. ;)

10. Baking chocolate doesn't have any milk solids in it.

True or False?

TRUE - Unsweetened baking chocolate is bitter. It comes closest to the raw, natural bean.

11. Cocoa butter is made by blending chocolate syrup with butter and spread on French pastries.

True or False?

FALSE - Cocoa butter is a result of the fat being removed from the cocoa bean. It is mostly used as a skin moisturizer (Yellowish in color) and not for cooking at all.

12. Trinitario is Italian for any tri-colored chocolate bar, dessert, cake, etc.

True or False?

FALSE - Trinitario are really beans (made from hybrid cocoa plants)

13. Chocolate is just as good for you as a glass of red wine.

True or False?

TRUE - Isn't this good news? :) Research shows that dark chocolate (nothing is said about the white chocolate) just like red wine, contains flavonoid phenolics which are known to lower the risk of heart disease. Cocoa is approximately 20% protein, 40% carbohydrate and 40% fat (before even adding sugar and milk).

14.Spanish Monks and Nuns around the early 16th century were forced to eat chocolate in secret because it was considered evil.

True or False?

FALSE - Monks and other clergy who had to fast openly indulged in eating all the chocolate they could. Why? It helped them not feel so fainty when they were on their fastings. Interesting how a "fast meant no food" but it was all right to eat chocolate?

15. Early Mexican history states that the cocoa bean was once used as:

(a) A gift from the Gods and forbidden to eat
(b) Women were not allowed to eat cocoa, only men
(c) The beans were used as money

. MONEY! - When Cortez came to Mexico he found the native Indians using cocoa beans as money. Now, I can imagine what he was thinking? "Hmmm? Let them have the beans. I want that gold!" <wink>

16. Which country consumes the most chocolate per person per year?

(a) Belgium
(b) United States
(c) Switzerland
(d) France
C - Switzerland. First got chocolate in 1875 in Vevey, Switzerland.

17. The cocoa plant grows how tall?

(a) 10 ft.
(b) 15 ft.
(c) 20 ft.

18. The cocoa pod comes from the tree's:

(a) Seeds
(b) Flowers
(c) Leaves
(d) None of the above. It makes the pod as is.

(b) The flowers make the cocao pod

19. Ripe Pods are how long?
(a) 5"
(b) 6"
(c) 8"
(d) 10"

20. The Pod is composed of pulp and seeds. The pulp is pale and pink. The pulp is sweet and is where the cocoa comes from.

True or False?
False. The cocao comes from the seeds.

21. How many seeds are there in a cocoa pod?

(a) 25 to 40
(b) 40 to 60
(c) 60 to 100
(d) Too many to count!
A - 25 to 40 seeds per pod.

22. To get the cocoa seeds sweet, they are fermented in their pulp, until the pulp turns to liquid and runs out of the fermenting box that has slots on the bottom. How many times a day is this box turned over?

(a) Once a day
(B) Morning and Evening (2 x's)
(c) Morning, Afternoon, Evening (3 x's)
(d) Constantly turned all day

A - Box is turned only once a day.

23.How long are the cocoa beans allowed to ferment?
(a) 3 days
(b) 4 days
(c) 5 to 6 days
(d) A week or longer.
C- about 5-6 days

24. When the cocoa bean is done fermenting it is sweeter.
True or False?

True

25. Dark Chocolate is better for you than Milk Chocolate.
True or False?
True - Researchers in Scotland and Italy say dark chocolate has much better anti-oxidant properties.

26. Which of the following IS NOT an anagram of the word "Chocolate?"

(a) Heat Cool
(b) Coca Hotel
(c) Teach Cool
(d) Catch Oleo

(A) Heat Cool. Missing another C

27. How much of the cocoa bean is cocoa butter?

(a) 10%
(b) 25%
(c) 54%
(d) 75%

C - 54%

28. Conrad Van Houten discovered that if you treated the "nibs" with this, it made the chocolate darker:

(a) Brown Sugar
(b) Alkalis
(c) Dark Molasses
(d) Black Coffee

B - Alkalis

29. Chocolate is based on a game using the cocoa beans created by the Choctaw Indians.

True or False?

False - The Choctaw Indians created a game with deerskin rolled up and also rackets.

30.Which has more calories in it?

A 1.5 oz. Hershey Bar or 1 packet of peanut M&M's

The peanut M&M's are more. They have 250 calories. The Hersehy Bar has 240.

31. A Dutchman named Van Houten invented what?

(a) The Chocolate Bunny
(b) The Chocolate Press
(c) Hot Chocolate
(d) Marketing a box of chocolate

(b) Chocolate Press

32. In the Alfred Hitchcock film "Psycho", they used chocolate syrup for blood in the infamous 45-second shower scene.

True or False?
True, after all the movie was black and white anyway. ;)

33. A 1.4 oz piece of milk chocolate and 1 cup of decaffeinated coffee both have 6 mg. of caffeine.

True or False?
True. However, regular coffee has 65 to 150 mg. of caffeine.

34. M&M's were first created for the US Military.

True or False?
True. This is why they gave them a candy-coated shell so they wouldn't melt.

35. Which came first, the Mounds Bar or the Almond Joy Bar?
Mounds Bar. It was created by Peter Paul and George Shamlian in 1921. It took 26 yrs. for the Almond Joy bar to come along in 1947.

36. Frank C. Mars in 1923 first created the Mars Bar.
True or False?
False. He created the Milky Way Bar.

37. Napoleon is said to have carried chocolate for the energy boost. Could this be what he's got in his pocket in that famous painting and he's grabbing for?

True or False?
True, although we can't say if he had any in his pocket when he posed for the picture.

38. If Cocoa is labeled "high fat" that means what?

(a) That it contains not less than 54% cocoa butter
(b) That it contains not less than 33% cocoa butter
(c) That it contains not less than 22% cocoa butter
(d) That it contains not less than 77% cocoa butter

C - Not less than 22% cocoa butter

39. Theobroma Caco is the scientific namefor the cocoa tree.
When translated in Greek it means...

(a) Warm Dark Fluid
(b) Food of the Gods
(c) Brown Tree from Abroad

(B) Food of the Gods = One can only assume that it made them feel zippy (or made their wives feel so good they considered it a food from the Gods?)

40. When scientists fed rats nothing but chocolate, they went crazy?

True or False?

FALSE - Lab rats got a bit zippy on the caffeine buzz, but not insane. (Who knows if they got fatter or got zits? ) :)

41. Crinipellis Pernicciosa in Latin translates to "hard chocolate in palm" and is the origin
of the term chocolate bar.

True or False?

FALSE - Crinipellis Pernicosa is really a scientific name for "witches broom" that describes the name of a disorder that affects cocao plantations. (I am not sure if it affects the plants or the workers. And exactly how?)

42. In 1657 the first chocolate shop opened up in ...

(a) London
(b) Vienna
(c) Amsterdam
(d) All of the above

A - London. Prior to that only nobility could drink chocolate.

43. In 1849 this now famous San Francisco chocolate producer started out selling supplies to miners during gold rush.

(a) Ghiradelli
(b) Lindor
(c) Fannie May
(d) Godiva

A. Domingo Ghiradelli

44. Back in the 16th Century, French physicians considered chocolate to be an aphrodisiac.
True or False?
Oh so TRUE!!!

45.In 1615 which country now discovers the delight of drinking hot chocolate?

(a) Spain
(b) Italy
(c) Greece
(d) Germany
B - Italy and hence the begining of Cappucino!!

46. Francois Louis Caille created the first what?

(a) Commercial Chocolate Bar
(b) Commercial Chocolate Bunny
(c) Commercially sold Box of Chocolates
(d) All of the above
A - Chocolate Bar for commercial use

47. In 1824 this well-known tea and coffee shop owner begins experimenting with chocolate grinding:

(a) Gherard Starbuck
(b) Milton Folgers
(c) John Cadbury
(d) Juan Valdez
C - John Cadbury

48. The Hershey Bar was first made in:

(a) 1900
(b) 1905
(c) 1926
(d) 1929
A - 1900

49. Before the Hershey Bar, Milton Snavely Hershey was already famous for which type of candy that he later discontinued because the chocolates were so popular:

(a) Mints
(b) Jelly Beans
(c) Caramels
(d) Taffy

C - Caramels

50. "Nestle's makes the very best chocolate" is their theme.
So what did Nestle do in 1875 to declare their chocolate so good?

(a) They put powdered sugar into it.
(b) They fermented the beans longer.
(c) They added sweetened condensed milk to it.
(d) They didn't do anything. It's just a commercial gimmick.

C - They were the first to add sweetened condensed milk.

Happy Valentine's Day!

Note: On July 15, 2005 I went to the Native American Indian Museum in Washington, D.C.
and saw a demonstration on Bolivian chocolate making presented by the El Ceibo chocolate
manufacturers of La Paz. I actually touched and saw a real pod, with the seeds, etc. They are
really big. The seeds were stuck together with a waxy substance that I believe is the raw cocoa butter.
They had samples of chocolate from the pod, to the roasted beans, powder, etc. all the way to the bar!
Suddenly, all the questions on this trivia page became real and made more sense! ;)

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