80 Chocolate Trivia Questions with Answers
80 public questions with answers, drawn from the well. How many can you answer?
What is the name of the process in which cacao beans are dried after fermentation?
Answer
Cacao bean drying
What is the name of the white coating that can appear on improperly stored chocolate?
Answer
Chocolate bloom
Which company made the world’s largest chocolate bar in 2011?
Answer
Thorntons
What type of chocolate did Barry Callebaut introduce commercially in 2017?
Answer
Ruby chocolate
What did the Aztecs commonly use cacao beans as in Mesoamerica?
Answer
Currency
What was the original name of the Kit Kat chocolate bar when Rowntree’s launched it in 1935?
Answer
Rowntree’s Chocolate Crisp
In the film Chocolat, which actress plays the chocolatier Vianne Rocher?
Answer
Juliette Binoche
Who is credited with inventing milk chocolate in 1875?
Answer
Daniel Peter
Who created the first modern chocolate bar in 1847 using a cocoa press?
Answer
Joseph Fry
Which country is the world’s largest producer of cocoa beans?
Answer
Côte d’Ivoire
Who invented the conching machine used to refine chocolate in 1879?
Answer
Rodolphe Lindt
What mountain appears on the packaging of Toblerone chocolate?
Answer
The Matterhorn
What ingredient gives white chocolate its characteristic cocoa content?
Answer
Cocoa butter
What species is the cacao tree that provides the beans used to make chocolate?
Answer
Theobroma cacao