80 Chocolate Trivia Questions with Answers
80 public questions with answers, drawn from the well. How many can you answer?
Who painted the celebrated 1744 artwork The Chocolate Girl?
Answer
Jean-Étienne Liotard
In the 1996 film Matilda, what is the name of the boy forced to eat an enormous chocolate cake?
Answer
Bruce Bogtrotter
Which company introduced the chocolate-and-peanut-butter candy Reese’s Pieces in 1978?
Answer
The Hershey Company
Which chocolate confection did H. B. Reese introduce in 1928?
Answer
Reese's Peanut Butter Cups
Which chocolate dessert is traditionally made with whipped cream and melted chocolate?
Answer
Chocolate mousse
Which chocolate company developed the first commercially marketed ruby chocolate?
Answer
Barry Callebaut
Which chocolate candy was first introduced by Hershey in 1907 as a flat-bottomed drop?
Answer
Hershey’s Kiss
Which inventor created milk chocolate by using condensed milk in 1875?
Answer
Daniel Peter
Who produced the first solid chocolate bar in 1847?
Answer
Joseph Fry
Who invented the conching process used to give chocolate a smoother texture in 1879?
Answer
Rodolphe Lindt
Which chocolate bar did Hershey introduce in 1900 as its first mass-produced product?
Answer
Hershey's Milk Chocolate Bar
Which 18th-century botanist gave the cacao tree the scientific name Theobroma cacao?
Answer
Carl Linnaeus
What is gianduja, the chocolate-and-hazelnut confection associated with Turin?
Answer
A chocolate-hazelnut paste
What does the confectionery term “couverture chocolate” specifically describe?
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Chocolate with extra cocoa butter
What was the original flavor combination of the 3 Musketeers bar when it launched in 1932?
Answer
Chocolate, vanilla, and strawberry
Which Swiss chocolatier founded the company that developed Lindor truffles?
Answer
Rodolphe Lindt
What is the main alkaloid in cocoa besides caffeine?
Answer
Theobromine
In what year did Ferrero Rocher first appear?
Answer
1982
Which tiny insect pollinates most cacao flowers?
Answer
Ceratopogonid midges
Who created the Ferrero Rocher chocolate confection?
Answer
Michele Ferrero
In the name “M&M’s,” what do the two capital M’s represent?
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Mars and Murrie
Who is credited with inventing the modern chocolate truffle in Chambéry in 1895?
Answer
Louis Dufour
Who wrote the children's novel Charlie and the Chocolate Factory?
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Roald Dahl
What was the original name of the Hershey company founded by Milton S. Hershey in 1894?
Answer
Hershey Chocolate Company
Who invented the chocolate chip cookie in the United States?
Answer
Ruth Graves Wakefield
The Godiva chocolate brand is named after which historical figure?
Answer
Lady Godiva