Chocolate trivia questions bring out the sweet tooth in all of us.
Let's face it, chocolate is one of life's greatest pleasures. Whether it's a candy bar, a hot cup of cocoa, or an indulgent truffle, chocolate can make any day sweeter.
Okay, enough of the mouth-watering descriptions and sweet-talking, it's time for some chocolate trivia.
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Question: What Swiss chocolate bar brand features red text and a yellow mountain, which surreptitiously displays the sketching of a white bear within the yellow mountain?
Answer: Toblerone
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192 Chocolate Trivia Questions Ranked From Easiest to Hardest (Updated For 2024)
- What is the name of a planet in the Solar System, the Roman god of war and a well-known chocolate bar which is named after the chocolate company’s owner?
Answer: Mars
- What Mars candy bar consists of a shortbread biscuit, with caramel and chocolate applied around it? Each package consists of two bars, and advertising suggests that the left and right bars are different somehow.
Answer: Twix
- Marketed as the fourth type of chocolate (the other three being dark, milk and white), which variety introduced in 2017 by Barry Callebaut shares its name with a precious stone?
Answer: Ruby Chocolate
- Don't lose it or you'll be angry. What six-letter word beginning with "T" means to heat and cool chocolate in order to give it a smooth and shiny appearance?
Answer: Temper
- Alternating layers of ladyfingers soaked in a coffee-liqueur combo with mascarpone cheese and chocolate gets you what uplifting Italian dessert?
Answer: Tiramisu
- The Android 4.4 operating system software for mobile devices was known by what sweet nickname, which is a chocolate-covered wafer bar known for its breakability?
Answer: KitKat
- The Nahuas are the largest indigenous group in Mexico. Their language, Nahuatl, has provided a whole party’s worth of words to English, including “chocolate,” “chili,” “guacamole,” and the word for what distilled beverage made from the blue agave plant?
Answer: Tequila
- Named for a novel with the triumvirate of titular characters Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, what chocolate and nougat candy bar originally included three smaller bars: one vanilla, one chocolate, and one strawberry?
Answer: 3 Musketeers
- What famous jar of hazelnut spread originally came in a giant, solid block until the Italian chocolatier Ferraro’s son came up with the idea to make it creamy and sell smaller batches in the 1960s?
Answer: Nutella
- What “D” Milk product, manufactured by Cadbury with milk chocolate, is also a general adjective describing things containing or made from milk?
Answer: Dairy Milk
- Notable for being the world's largest consumer of hazelnuts, which brand beginning with F produces Nutella, Tic Tacs and a Kinder range aimed at children?
Answer: Ferrero
- Hopefully they have good dental in Madison! More than 50 years before Bart Simpson made sure nobody laid a finger on his, Shirley Temple shilled for what crispety-crunchety candy bar that just topped Wisconsin’s most popular Halloween candy list for 2023?
Answer: Butterfinger
- Located in southeastern Pennsylvania, what amusement park was founded in 1906 to entertain workers at a chocolate company in the area?
Answer: Hersheypark
- FASHION: Sandwiched between London and Paris on the annual Fashion Week schedule is what metropolis in the Po Valley? | OTHER: Monaco is the confused Canadian name for the Pepperidge Farm chocolate sandwich cookies named for what Italian city?
Answer: Milan
- French, German, Italian, and Romansh are the official languages of what chocolatey Alpine nation?
Answer: Switzerland
- While building magnetrons at MIT in the 1940s, Percy Spencer noticed a melting chocolate bar in his pocket. Deeper investigation and exploration led to the invention of what household device? Spencer received no royalties for this invention, first marketed as the Radarange.
Answer: Microwave
- The brand Pascall owns a trademark on the name of what chocolate candy with a soft pineapple-flavored center, popular among New Zealanders?
Answer: Pineapple Lumps
- Competing with other chocolate giants like Mondelez International and Nestlé, what 4-letter, out-of-this-world company controls more of the global chocolate market than anyone else?
Answer: Mars
- What “B” ice cream company, acquired by Unilever from Kraft, was founded in 1866 in Philadelphia, PA by its namesake? It has a variety of flavors, but is best known for its strawberry, chocolate, and especially the vanilla.
Answer: Breyers
- In 2017, the cocoa company Barry Callebaut introduced a "fourth" type of chocolate alongside dark, milk, and white. What is the name of this new type of chocolate, which is made with a specific type of cocoa bean and is known for its pink color?
Answer: Ruby Chocolate
- Introduced in 1962, Sonny the Cuckoo Bird is the mascot for what chocolaty General Mills cereal brand?
Answer: Cocoa Puffs
- What privately held corporation, founded in 1911 in Tacoma, WA, is a conglomerate that has not only its namesake bars popular around the world, but also “M&M’s”, pet food, and animal care services?
Answer: Mars
- What type of layered chocolate cake with pecan-coconut frosting was named for its inventor, an American chocolatier--and not, as you might expect, a distant country?
Answer: German Chocolate Cake
- What Swiss chocolate company, known for its chocolate bars and the Lindor Truffle, bought Russell Stover Candies in 2004?
Answer: Lindt
- Perhaps not surprisingly given it is home to The Hersey Company, which U.S. state produces the most chocolate? According to the U.S. Census Bureau it produces roughly half of the chocolate made in the country.
Answer: Pennsylvania
- What brand of chocolate bar, made of nougat, topped with caramel, and covered with milk chocolate, shares its name with the galaxy which contains our Solar System?
Answer: Milky Way
- In 1907, Hershey's began manufacturing what tiny chocolate candies, which are still popular today?
Answer: Hershey's kisses
- Delavan, Wisconsin—not South America—is the location of the factory that produces what brand of rectangular chocolate mint candies?
Answer: Andes
- Left a chocolate bar in a hot car? When you unwrap it, you might see some white discoloration on the surface. While it doesn’t look yummy, it’s still safe to eat—what you’re seeing is just separated cocoa fat. What’s the term used to describe this confectionary phenomenon?
Answer: Bloom
- Which “bean-to-bar” gourmet Belgian-Swiss chocolate company brought us “ruby” chocolate in 2017?
Answer: Barry Callebaut
- Which brand of chewy, taffy-caramel chocolate candy was the first individually wrapped “penny candy” in the United States? (Hint: As a kid, you might have tried to lick your way to the center of the lollipop version)
Answer: Tootsie Roll
- After its acquisition of the Leaf International confectionery in 1996, Hershey has been the manufacturer of what “H” chocolate and toffee candy bar? Its name is also used to describe an area of open uncultivated land.
Answer: Heath Bar
- Ferrero Rocher truffles consist of milk chocolate, a wafer shell, and what whole roasted nut in the center?
Answer: Hazelnut
- Which Hershey chocolate bar with a blue and white wrapper is filled with coconut and a specific nut that appears in its euphoric name?
Answer: Almond Joy
- As a result of moving production outside of Switzerland, which chocolate bar is no longer allowed to feature mountain known as Matterhorn on its packaging?
Answer: Toblerone
- Israel’s popular sabra liqueur is chocolate with hints of what citrus fruit?
Answer: Orange
- What color is also a royal house in the Netherlands, a river found in South Africa and the name of a fruit when mixed with chocolate creates the flavor known as Jaffa?
Answer: Orange
- What chocolate-flavored coffee drink gets its name from a city in Yemen that was once a center of the coffee trade?
Answer: Mocha
- What Swiss chocolate bar brand features red text and a yellow mountain, which surreptitiously displays the sketching of a white bear within the yellow mountain?
Answer: Toblerone
- Known for its "Surprise" eggs, what chocolate brand is produced in Italy even though its name means "children" in German and "nicer" in English?
Answer: Kinder
- Once cocoa has been shelled and roasted, the little leftover bits aren’t as sweet as chocolate but they’re still useful—especially if you want to make liquor. What are these pieces called?
Answer: Nibs
- Two malted biscuits separated by a light chocolate cream filling and coated in a thin layer of textured chocolate make up what snack brand introduced to Australia in 1964 by Arnott's?
Answer: Tim Tam
- The Matterhorn in the Alps is said to have served as inspiration for the shape of what chocolatey product that has been owned by Mondelez International since 2012?
Answer: Toblerone
- The title character and her BFF Ethel work in a chocolate factory, leading to some hilarious scenes with a conveyor belt in a 1952 episode of what classic TV series?
Answer: I Love Lucy
- Chocolate "Easter Bilbies," an alternative to the familiar Easter-time chocolate bunnies and intended to raise awareness about the endangered marsupials, are a specialty found in what country?
Answer: Australia
- Which type of chocolate is not quite as bitter as dark, not as light and sweet as milk, and is good for baking?
Answer: Semisweet
- The "negro" version of what Mexican culinary sauce is typically made from chili peppers, chocolate, and spices?
Answer: Mole
- The 2000 film "Chocolat" stars Juliette Binoche as a woman who opens a sweet shop in a straitlaced fictional village in what country?
Answer: France
- What European country with a square red and white national flag is home to Daniel Peter – the man who invented milk chocolate in 1875 by using condensed milk as its crucial ingredient?
Answer: Switzerland
- What common "chocolate taffy" candy holds the distinction of being the first penny candy brand in the United States to be individually wrapped?
Answer: Tootsie Roll
- "Nothing mixes better than vanilla and chocolate." In an episode of "Seinfeld," Jerry says this in reference to what iconic duotone baked foodstuff found primarily in the bakeries of New York City?
Answer: Black and White cookie
- Chocolate comes from beans that grow on cacao trees. These trees, like pine, spruce, and cotton among others, share what compound-word characteristic that distinguishes them as having fresh leaves year-round?
Answer: Evergreen
- What “M” food conglomerate, based in Chicago, Illinois, owns Cadbury, Chips Ahoy, and Oreo among others? Formerly known as Kraft Foods, it got its name from combining the Latin words for “world” and “delicious.”
Answer: Mondelez International
- Using the tagline "silky smooth", which avian-sounding chocolate brand is owned by Mars and known as Galaxy in the UK?
Answer: Dove
- The musical name of what creamier chocolate bar, introduced by Hershey in 1999, reflects the more adult and "upscale" consumers for which it is marketed?
Answer: Symphony
- In cooking, what French term means a mixture of semisweet chocolate and cream heated and stirred together, often used to fill truffles and cakes?
Answer: Ganache
- Bart Simpson was the spokesman for what crispy peanut butter chocolate candy bar?
Answer: Butterfingers
- Harpoon in Boston, Sand Creek in Wisconsin, and O'Fallon in Missouri all have a chocolate-flavored product which is what type of beer?
Answer: Stout
- Named after a favorite horse belonging to the Mars family, which peanut chocolate bar was named (along with M&Ms) as the "official snack" of the 1984 Summer Olympics?
Answer: Snickers
- The Vital Proteins brand offers collagen peptides in a chocolate flavor. Vital Proteins has as their Chief Creative Officer what star of the TV show “Friends”?
Answer: Jennifer Aniston
- What British chocolate company is known for chocolate bars with names such as Dairy Milk, Flake, Crunchie, and Wispa?
Answer: Cadbury
- In Spain, hot chocolate is often served at breakfast alongside what long pastry made from dough that is extruded, then fried?
Answer: Churros
- Which Nestle powder can you mix with milk to make a chocolatey drink approved by the brand’s “speedy” rabbit mascot?
Answer: Nesquik
- Lindt expanded their chocolate empire in the 1990s with the acquisition of what California-based chocolate company founded by and named after an Italian immigrant?
Answer: Ghirardelli
- Founded in 1926, what popular Belgian chocolatier, known for its expensive chocolates was bought by Turkish company Yildiz Holding in 2007? The company is named after an Anglo-Saxon noblewoman who supposedly rode naked on horseback to save her village from excessive taxation.
Answer: Godiva
- Although it no longer contains eggs, what Swiss-manufactured instant chocolate beverage gets its name from a Latin word meaning "egg?"
Answer: Ovaltine
- What appropriate name does Hershey's use for the version of its classic Kisses made of milk chocolate coated in white creme?
Answer: Hugs
- Blasting off with the space shuttle Columbia in 1981, what were the first candies in space? They are also included in MRE field rations for U.S. soldiers.
Answer: M&Ms
- What General Mills snack food, whose core flavors include Original, Nacho Cheese, Chocolate Peanut Butter, and Caramel, dubs itself "America's #1 Finger Hat?"
Answer: Bugles
- The chocolate chip cookie was invented in 1938 by Ruth Wakefield, the proprietor of what Massachusetts inn, which gave its name to the Nestle brand and cookbook that popularized them?
Answer: The Toll House Inn
- What West African country is the world's largest producer of cacao beans? Ghana is the second-largest producer. Together the two countries grow over 60% of the world's supply.
Answer: Côte d'Ivoire
- What process do the seeds of the cacao tree go through before being dried, cleaned, and roasted? Cacao seeds are very bitter, and this step is necessary to develop the flavor.
Answer: Fermentation
- What is the name of the Japanese snack food first sold in 1966 initially described as a "chocolate covered biscuit stick?" There are now additional flavored coatings such as almond, strawberry, milk, green tea, banana, and coconut.
Answer: Pocky
- The Swiss chocolatier Lindt makes what alliteratively similar brand of chocolate bars and truffles, known for their dark chocolate shells and milk chocolate interiors?
Answer: Lindor truffles
- A popular way to prepare chocolate is what use of air bubbles to give it a light, airy texture? It sounds like the name of a large antlered animal, sometimes called an elk.
Answer: Mousse
- Hershey's is, of course, located in Hershey, Pennsylvania, but one of its most iconic products, a peppermint patty coated in dark chocolate, was invented in what town 36 miles away?
Answer: York
- The Dancing Bears in Space Bar is a collaboration between Vosges Haut-Chocolat and what hippie rock band that's really only down a couple of members?
Answer: Grateful Dead
- Chocolate, like other dairies, can combine deliciously with what aromatic purple plant from the mint family?
Answer: Lavender
- What international confectionery manufacturer and chocolate retailer was founded in 1981 in Durango, Colorado, and is named for a large mountain range in that region?
Answer: Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory
- What brand name for chocolate-covered peanuts, owned by Nestle, comes from an American slang word for the peanuts themselves?
Answer: Goobers
- A base of wafer and coconut, custard, and chocolate ganache are the layers in a popular "bar" name for what city on Canada's Vancouver Island?
Answer: Nanaimo
- Halle Berry serves chocolate ice cream with a plastic spoon to Billy Bob Thornton in a memorable scene from what 2001 film for which she later won a Best Actress Oscar?
Answer: Monster's Ball
- In which ancient civilization was chocolate thought to be a gift from the god Quetzalcoatl?
Answer: Aztec
- Trinitario cacao beans were named after what island that is the largest island in a nation in the Caribbean?
Answer: Trinidad
- What is the name for the chocolate confectionary which derives its name from its visual similarity to the fruiting body of a subterranean ascomycete fungus?
Answer: Truffle
- The evidence of the earliest use of chocolate was found at an archaeological site of the pre-Olmec Mokaya people dating back to 1900 BC. In what country is this site located?
Answer: Mexico
- Henri was the first name of what German-Swiss chocolatier, whose namesake chocolate company grew into the world's largest food and beverage company?
Answer: Nestle
- From what present-day country, formerly ancient Mesoamerica, does chocolate originate?
Answer: Mexico
- What Swiss chocolate company, now the seventh largest in the world, owns the U.S.-based brand Ghirardelli, originally founded in San Francisco?
Answer: Lindt & Sprungli
- "Sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you don't. Almond Joy's got nuts." Who "don't?"
Answer: Mounds
- Featuring chocolate chips and macadamia nuts, what Pepperidge Farm cookie variety shares its name with a city in Marin County?
Answer: Sausalito
- What alliterative chocolate bar is named after a well-known early-20th-century dance and partially shares its name with West Virginia’s capital city?
Answer: Charleston Chew
- What four-letter caramel-filled branded chocolate candy is shaped like a truncated cone and was first manufactured in the U.K. by Mackintosh's in 1937?
Answer: Rolo
- With an annual consumption of ~5kg per person, which continent accounts for half of all the chocolate eaten each year worldwide?
Answer: Europe
- As well as being home to chocolate brands such as Côte d'Or, Godiva, and Leonidas, in which European country would you find the chocolate museum known as Choco-Story?
Answer: Belgium
- What confection is a (usually) round chocolate-coated treat with a ganache center and sometimes topped with nuts? (Hint: It’s not a fabulous fungus but shares a Latin name with one that means “lump”)
Answer: Truffle
- Which of the naughty kids in the 1971 film Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory turns out to be a "bad egg" when she demands one of Wonka's chocolate egg-laying geese as a pet?
Answer: Veruca Salt
- Along with the Milky Way, Mars Inc. makes another out of this world chocolate bar that comes in smooth milk, honeycomb crisp, and orange varieties. In the U.S. it’s sold under the Dove brand, but in the U.K., it goes by what “G” word?
Answer: Galaxy
- What is the longest continuously operating chocolatier in the U.S.? This firm started as a confectionary shop in San Francisco in 1852.
Answer: Ghirardelli
- What Francophone nation with a name alludes to another important historical export is the world's leading exporter of cocoa beans?
Answer: Ivory Coast
- The name of what process, by which cocoa butter is evenly distributed throughout chocolate, comes from the shell-shaped vessels first used for it?
Answer: Conching
- What sweet biscuit topping is often attributed with Arkansas and typically contains flour, cocoa powder, butter, sugar, milk, and salt?
Answer: Chocolate gravy
- What food conglomerate owns diverse brands such as Buitoni Italian foods, DiGiornio frozen pizza, and Carnation evaporated milk? They are probably known by name mostly for their sweets, including Toll House cookies and various chocolate candies.
Answer: Nestle
- Similar to a Heath bar, what Hershey's candy bar brand consists of a thin slab of butter toffee covered in milk chocolate?
Answer: Skor
- What three-layer ice cream consists of vanilla, chocolate, and strawberry flavors?
Answer: Neapolitan
- What is the name of Costco's in-house brand, which offers food products including olive oil, maple syrup, chocolate-covered almonds, frozen shrimp, and many others?
Answer: Kirkland
- Gimme a break! What Hershey wafer-and-chocolate product has been offered in more than 300 flavors in Japan, including adzuki (red bean), wasabi, matcha, and soy sauce?
Answer: KitKat
- According to Ben & Jerry's, their most popular flavor is what variety that features chocolate and vanilla ice cream, fudge brownies, and chocolate chip cookie dough?
Answer: Half Baked
- Which type of novelty calendar inspired by Christian tradition is popular around the holidays and involves opening a little present each day in December leading up to Christmas Day on the 25th? (Hint: They’re often chocolate or toys, but you can also find them with cheese…)
Answer: Advent
- The Ethel M Chocolate Factory in Henderson, Nevada is named for the matriarch of what American first family of chocolate?
Answer: Mars
- What chocolate-y, nutty brand had to pay a $3 million settlement in 2012 for falsely claiming it was "part of a balanced breakfast?"
Answer: Nutella
- The Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas is home to the world’s largest fountain of which dark, white, or semi-sweet confection?
Answer: Chocolate
- Dreyer's Ice Cream claims that in 1929 they invented what iconic ice cream flavor? They mixed chocolate ice cream, almonds. and marshmallows to get something they describe as "revolutionary."
Answer: Rocky Road
- In 2023, what fast food brand released a line of cold brew beverages meant to taste like its iconic chocolate and vanilla frozen drinks?
Answer: Wendy's
- To'ak, the makers of a $345 chocolate bar described as the "world's most expensive," produces chocolate made from the rare Nacional variety of cocoa bean, once thought to be extinct, in what country on South America's mid-Pacific coast?
Answer: Ecuador
- Gianduia is an Italian chocolate that is made using the paste of what nut, also known as cobnuts or filberts?
Answer: Hazelnuts
- On April Fool's Day in France, one might be presented with un poisson d'avril, a chocolate shaped like what animal?
Answer: Fish
- After it first hit the market in 1905, which brand’s Dairy Milk bar became its best-selling chocolate bar?
Answer: Cadbury
- What “D” Chocolate company, co-owned by the Kuapa Kokoo cocoa co-operative in Ghana, makes luxury chocolate bars, as well gelt coins? Its name implies that it is God-like.
Answer: Divine Chocolate
- The first chocolate manufacturer started its business in 1765, on the banks of the Neponset River, in what New England state?
Answer: Massachusetts
- A Spanish word meaning "rock" was chosen to describe what chocolate confection, made of hard toffee, chocolate, and ground almonds, first manufactured in Tacoma in 1912?
Answer: Almond Roca
- First introduced in 2017 and noted for its sour flavor profile, what chocolate variety shares its name with a precious gem?
Answer: Ruby chocolate
- "Cherry" is the most popular type of what variety of common chocolate treat, in which a liquid filling is placed within a chocolate shell?
Answer: Cordial
- Don't laugh! Named after a pet of its creator, what is the biggest selling chocolate bar in the world, as of the end of 2022?
Answer: Snickers
- What Swiss chocolatier is credited in 1879 with inventing conching, the method by which chocolate is mixed and aerated by large stone rollers, giving it a smoother texture and taste?
Answer: Rodolfe Lindt
- French royals who liked chocolate enough to tell you about it twice are apparently the source of what word for certain bite-sized confections?
Answer: Bonbons
- When cocoa is treated with alkali, it lowers the acidity and gives it a darker color and less bitter taste. Cocoa made this way is great for hot chocolate and baking. What’s the name of the process? (Hint: The technique was invented by a chocolate maker in the Netherlands in the 19th century).
Answer: Dutch
- What candy bar, peanut butter crunch enrobed in chocolate, is sold in black wrapper by Hershey? It shares its name with a famous shopping street on Manhattan.
Answer: 5th Avenue
- What delicious three-word dessert’s origins trace back as early as Mrs. George Clay submitting her tasty recipe to The Dallas Morning News in 1957 – and NOT back to a baker in Berlin inventing this coconut and pecan-layered treat?
Answer: German Chocolate Cake
- Which chocolate maker is the biggest supplier in the United States and was the nation’s oldest independent processor (having started in 1939) until it was bought by Fuji Oil Holdings in 2018?
Answer: Blommer Chocolate Company
- The peer-reviewed journal "Nature Ecology & Evolution" has reported that the earliest use of cacao was likely approximately 5,3000 years ago based on archaeological findings in Santa Ana in what South American nation? This nation is one of two on the continent that does not border Brazil.
Answer: Ecuador
- Toblerone got its name from founder Theodor Tobler and "torrone," the Italian word for what crackly confection found in each bar?
Answer: Nougat
- Although details on who first brought back chocolate to Europe are disputed, it is generally agreed that chocolate first appeared in Europe in what country?
Answer: Spain
- Which C-term refers to chocolate that has more cocoa butter in it and is great for dipping or coating treats (which makes sense, because the word means “covering” in French)?
Answer: Couverture
- The addition of coconut and sunflower oils, which are solid at higher temperatures than chocolate, explain the hardening properties of what chocolate ice cream topping produced by Smucker's?
Answer: Magic Shell
- What cake, a recipe for which first appeared in a Dallas newspaper in 1957, was named for its primary ingredient and not for its country of origin?
Answer: German chocolate cake
- What chocolate bar—which might give you the energy you need for a 26-mile run—was known as "Marathon" in the UK until 1990?
Answer: Snickers
- What iconic candy was first created for troops during World War II, before being sold to the general public starting in 1945?
Answer: M&Ms
- What is the name of the oldest producer of chocolate in the U.S? The company was founded in Boston in 1765 and is still in operation. Coincidentally, the company's name came from its founder's surname but it is still quite appropriate for the food industry.
Answer: The Baker Chocolate Company
- Named for a city in British Columbia, what no-bake dessert includes a base of wafers, nuts, and coconut, custard icing in the middle, and a layer of chocolate ganache on top?
Answer: Nanaimo Bar
- The Museu de la Xocolata—a word that means "chocolate" in the Catalan language—can be found in what European city?
Answer: Barcelona
- Which chocolatier well-loved in the UK was the first to market a heart-shaped “Fancy Boxes” box for chocolates in 1868 (which is somehow failed to see the brilliance in and didn’t patent—which is probably how they become ubiquitous on store shelves ahead of Valentine’s Day!)
Answer: Cadbury
- Treating cocoa with alkali to make it less acidic is called what process? (Hint: The name comes from the nationality of Coenraad Johannes van Houten—the chemist/chocolate maker who came up with it!)
Answer: Dutch
- According to the title of a 2011 essay collection about Costa Rican wildlife by naturalist Jack Ewing, "Monkeys Are Made Of" what sweet substance?
Answer: Chocolate
- Known for its distinctive shape and cult following as a cheesecake ingredient, the logo for Toblerone chocolate features a mountain with a hidden image of what animal?
Answer: Bear
- Appearing on the back of the Philippine 200 Peso note, a hill formation in the Province of Bohol is named after which earthy colored sweet treat?
Answer: Chocolate
- A dessert with three layers of coffee-soaked almond cake, a layer of espresso-flavored icing, a layer of chocolate ganache, and a chocolate glaze topping, has what musical name?
Answer: Opera
- Confectionary company Cadbury was founded in 1824 in which English city, the second largest city in England?
Answer: Birmingham
- What chocolate candy bar, created by the Mars Company in 1932, originally came in a box with two other flavors, vanilla and strawberry, although they stopped production of the other two in 1945?
Answer: Three Musketeers
- Wafer, caramel, and crisp cereal covered in chocolate is the composition of a popular UK Nestle bar that shares what feline name with a 2016 Dev Patel drama?
Answer: Lion
- What chocolate treats made currently produced by Hershey gets its name because its creators, Hoffman and Company of Chicago, were unable to achieve their desired spherical shape?
Answer: Milk Duds
- What Nabisco brand, made of a marshmallow-topped cookie with a thin chocolate coating, is seasonal from September through March because the chocolate coating melts in warmer months?
Answer: Mallomars
- For Valentine's Day 2008, Mars released a special edition of M&M's that were all what color—which, according to urban legend, are an aphrodisiac?
Answer: Green
- Which German chocolate brand got its name because the perfectly square design was just the right size to fit in a casual men’s jacket pocket?
Answer: Ritter Sport
- Which D.C. restaurant hidden beneath an ice cream shop in Mount Pleasant is famous for its unique Greek pizza and must-have salted chocolate chip cookies?
Answer: Martha Dear
- Originally conceived by the Minneapolis-based candy company Hollywood Brands, containing caramel, peanut, and almond nougat, what Hershey candy bar is famous for its trademark white chocolate fudge exterior?
Answer: Zero
- The English word "chocolate" comes from a Spanish word which comes from a classic word in what language spoken widely in Central Mexico during the 16th century Spanish Conquest?
Answer: Nahuatl
- What M-word is an application of chocolate that results after combining melted chocolate with corn syrup? (We hear it's a personal favorite of Tyra Banks).
Answer: Modeling
- The Belgian chocolate brand Guylian is most known for their "Fruit of the Sea" pralines which come in the shape of seashells, shrimp, and which small "S" fish?
Answer: Seahorses
- The Wispa Gold Chocolate holds the unofficial title for the most expensive chocolate bar in the world. When it was first released in 1981, the bar was made with premium Madagascan cocoa beans and coated in gold leaf. What company manufactured Wispa Gold?
Answer: Cadbury
- Chocolate (or vanilla) gelato, along with cherry and pistachio, are the flavors found in what Italian dessert whose name comes from a word meaning "foam?"
Answer: Spumoni
- Who was the Dutch inventor who came up with a process for separating cocoa butter from cocoa solids? He also developed a smoother, less bitter chocolate by adding alkaline salts.
Answer: Coenraad van Houten
- What French term of endearment gives its name to a chocolate produced by Ferrero featuring a cherry heart floating in liqueur?
Answer: Mon Cheri
- The cost of almost everything went up after WWII as the global economy struggled to recover. After finding out that one nickel was no longer enough to buy their favorite candy, kids on which Canadian island went on a “chocolate bar strike” in 1947?
Answer: Vancouver
- What French actress played Vianne, the owner of a French chocolate shop, in the 2000 film "Chocolat" that co-starred Johnny Depp?
Answer: Juliette Binoche
- What Nestle brand-name product, which dates back to 1913, consists of a graham cracker circle topped with extruded marshmallow, then coated in chocolate?
Answer: Mallomars
- The ancient origins of chocolate’s power go back to the Mexica, who considered cacao seeds to be a gift from Quetzalcoatl, the god of what brainy principle?
Answer: Wisdom
- It's an astronomical thing to be selling in a fish and chip shop. John Davie claims to have invented the idea of deep-frying what chocolate bar to create a product that has been called "Scotland's craziest takeaway"?
Answer: Mars bar
- Chocolate making “O”riginated with what prehistoric people who lived on the Gulf of Mexico from 1200-400 BC? They were likely the first Meso-American civilization.
Answer: Olmec
- Sanders Candy and Dessert Shops dates back to 1875 in Detroit. The shop gained popularity in part due to a single dessert, which featured an airy pastry shell, vanilla ice cream, and some warmer-than-average chocolate sauce. What is the name of this treat?
Answer: Hot fudge cream puff
- With a name that reflects its location in the Rhone river valley, what luxury confectioner has been producing chocolates like its Tanariva bars and Equinoxe gift boxes since 1922?
Answer: Valrhona
- The Philippines features over 1,700 distinctly conical hills in the Bohol Province. Due to the color-changing grass on this geological formation, the Hills are named after what sweet treat?
Answer: Chocolate Hills
- "Mr. Chocolate" is the nickname of what French pastry chef, who now owns a chain of high-end chocolate shops in NYC and is the head judge on Netflix's "Nailed It?"
Answer: Jacques Torres
- Referring to its dark color and decadent taste, a variety of stout beer is named for, but only rarely actually includes, what sweet, dairy-based product?
Answer: Chocolate
- Moniliophthora perniciosa is a fungus responsible for what disease of the cacao tree, which devastated Brazil, causing a loss of 70% of production of cocoa in ten years?
Answer: Witches' Broom
- In what country was the first recorded recipe for chocolate ice cream printed, in a 1692 book called "The Modern Steward"?
Answer: Italy
- Similar to the commercial brand Nutella, what Italian dessert paste, which was invented sometime in the 18th century, is a sweet chocolate spread consisting of about 30% hazelnuts?
Answer: Gianduia
- Founded in 1907, what Canadian chocolate company with a purple label offers Sweet Georgia Browns and other deluxe boxed chocolates?
Answer: Purdys
- What Belgian chocolatier, best known for its shell-shaped pralines, gets its name from a combination of the first names of its husband-and-wife founders?
Answer: Guylian
- Comprising wedges of smooth milk chocolate and orange extract, a Terry's Chocolate Orange is divided into how many segments?
Answer: 20
- The Guinness World Record for the largest chocolate nut bar is held by a 5,943-pound version of what candy bar, which uses the tagline "The Best Bar You've Never Heard Of"?
Answer: Reese's Take 5
- What is the name of the variety of the cacao plant that produces the largest amount of the world's chocolate? This plant is primarily grown in West Africa, where the greatest percentage of chocolate is grown.
Answer: Forastero
- What cocktail can feature dark chocolate, ice, coffee-flavoured liqueur, vodka, Irish cream liqueur and double cream?
Answer: Mudslide
- Chocolates shaped like human hands are a popular choice in the chocolatiers of what European city, whose name may even mean "hand throwing" in reference to a legend about a defeated giant whose hand was tossed in ariver?
Answer: Antwerp
- What “D” chocolatier, owned by Nicole Patel and operating out Austin tries to use local Texas ingredients in its chocolate, and has an advent calendar? Its name is a derivation of a word meaning tasty.
Answer: Delysia
- Featured in an episode of "Seinfeld," what chocolate syrup brand is George's ATM password?
Answer: Bosco
- From a French word for "bundle," what is the name for a small, elegant box with separate compartments for chocolates to keep the chocolates from damaging each other?
Answer: Ballotin
- What independent organic chocolate producer was purchased by Hershey's in 2006? The brand name sounds like a planet in the Star Wars universe, although it really comes from a Sanskrit word meaning "hemispherical dome."
Answer: Dagoba
- In 2023, a group of Australian researchers, partnering with the company Qantas, found that chocolate may be an effective antidote for what common condition associated with travel?
Answer: Jet lag
- What British chocolate company is responsible for such innovations as grinding beans using a steam engine, thus first using factory methods in chocolate manufacturing, and creating the first solid chocolate bar?
Answer: Fry's
- Cacao, the plant whose seeds are turned into chocolate, is thought to have originated in the South American rain forests at the source of the Amazon and what other river?
Answer: Orinoco
- What no-bake, cake-like confection is made of crushed digestive biscuits, raisins, cherries, sugar, syrup, and chocolate?
Answer: Tiffin
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