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Trivia Time – 20 Questions on Chocolate

30th June 2021 by Shamus Sillar 3 Min Read

https://expatliving.sg/trivia-time-questions-on-chocolate-origin-and-facts/

Time to test the grey matter again with another Expat Living trivia quiz! World Chocolate Day is on 7 July, and in honour of the glorious treat that we all love to eat, we’ve prepared 20 questions for you to chew over.  

trivia on chocolate origin

#1 Mars is the largest confectionary company in the world. What’s the second largest?

#2 Finish this Forrest Gump quotation: “Life is like a box of chocolates, …”

#3 Is a cocoa bean a fruit or a seed?

#4 For every 100 grams of chocolate, the US FDA (Food and Drug Administration) officially allows up to 60 fragments of what object: skin, rodent hair, peanuts or insects?

#5 How many pieces or “fingers” are in a standard-sized Kit Kat?

#6 Which continent consumes around 40 percent of the world’s chocolate?

#7 Caramelised white chocolate is referred to as what type of chocolate, starting with “b”?

#8 In 2001, a bar of chocolate sold at auction in England for almost 500 pounds. It was 100 years old and had been carried by Captain Robert Scott on his expedition to where?

#9 Which animal is known to get very sick from ingesting chocolate?

#10 Veruca Salt, Augustus Gloop and Violet Beauregarde are characters in which book?

#11 What colour of M&Ms was discontinued for 11 years, from 1976 to 1987, before being brought back by popular demand?

#12 With flavours including basil, cheese, jasmine, black pepper and lemon, Meiji is a brand of chocolate from which country?

#13 What was the name of the British soul band that had big international hits with “Every 1’s a Winner”, “You Sexy Thing” and “It Started With a Kiss”?

#14 Which Swiss chocolate brand has a bear hiding in its logo?

#15 The two biggest producers of cacao are two African countries; Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana. The third biggest is a Southeast Asian country. Which one?

#16 True or false: Alfred Hitchcock used chocolate syrup in place of actual blood when filming the famous shower scene in Psycho. 

#17 According to the tagline, how much milk is in every block of Cadbury Dairy Milk?

#18 What drink do you get when you add chocolate to coffee?

#19 The book Like Water for Chocolate and its movie adaptation are set in which country?

#20 Which of these was named after the inventor’s horse: Twix, Snickers or Milky Way?

trivia on chocolate origin

Bonus

Who am I?

(If you can answer correctly on the first clue, you get 10 points, but you lose a point for each additional clue you require after that.)

  • I was born on 13 September, which was later honoured as “International Chocolate Day”, a rival date to the celebration on 7 July. (10)
  • I’m of Swiss and German descent, but I grew up in Pennsylvania in America. (9)
  • This was back in the 19th century. (8)
  • I did very little schooling – only up the fourth grade. By the age of 14, I was already working in the industry that I would become famous in. (7)
  • Together with my wife, I was booked to travel on the ill-fated Titanic in 1912 but cancelled at the last minute. (6)
  • My first successful business was the Lancaster Caramel Company. (5)
  • In 1905, I finished work on the world’s biggest chocolate manufacturing factory. (4)
  • My signature chocolate bar is sometimes referred to as “The Great American Chocolate Bar”. (3)
  • I’m also well known for producing bite-sized, cone-shaped chocolates known as Kisses. (2)
  • I am a Milton S who, starting with “H”? (1)

All the answers!

#1 Cadbury
#2 “You never know what you’re gonna get.”
#3 Seed
#4 Insects
#5 Four
#6 Europe (in 2017, the top six chocolate-consuming countries were all in Europe)
#7 Blonde
#8 The South Pole / Antarctica
#9 Dog
#10 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
#11 Red
#12 Japan
#13 Hot Chocolate
#14 Toblerone
#15 Indonesia
#16 True
#17 A glass and a half
#18 Mocha
#19 Mexico
#20 Snickers

Bonus: Milton S Hershey

 

Now that you’re hungry, here’s a delicious chocolate recipe for you to make!

For more helpful tips, head to our Living in Singapore section.

Want to try more trivia?

 

Categories: Things To Do Wine & Dine

Shamus Sillar

While he has worked as a magazine editor since 2003, Shamus also has a PhD in Roman History (useful!) and is a published author. He writes mostly on travel but also covers food, history, sport, trivia and more, across Expat Living’s publications and websites in Singapore and Hong Kong.

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