Chocolate Trivia for Kids
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44 free Chocolate Trivia for Kids trivia questions with answers — food & drink quiz, new questions added Sep 2026.
This chocolate trivia for kids quiz covers the sweet stuff the way a curious 8-to-12-year-old would want to learn it: which tree cocoa beans come from, why chocolate is dangerous for dogs, what the two M's in M&M's stand for, why Kinder Surprise eggs are not sold in America, how many hazelnuts go into a jar of Nutella and how many Golden Tickets Willy Wonka hid. Along the way it visits Hershey, Pennsylvania, the Cadbury factory in Birmingham, a Swiss mountain shaped like a Toblerone and the Aztec markets where cocoa beans were money. Most questions are easy enough for a family game night, a classroom treat or a car ride, and a handful at the end will stretch older kids and parents. If you want the tougher stuff, try our hard chocolate trivia, and the main chocolate trivia page has the full mix. Every answer has been checked against the Wikipedia article on the brand, the bar or the history, and each question shows its source once you have answered.
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Q 01Which chocolate product did the Dutch van Houten family's press make cheap and easy to produce?
Cocoa powder
Cocoa powder: squeezing out the cocoa butter opened the door to mass-producing chocolate.
Q 02Theobroma, the scientific name of the tree chocolate comes from, means what?
Food of the gods
Food of the gods: the Aztecs believed their gods had given them cacao.
Q 03Which type of chocolate contains no cocoa solids apart from cocoa butter?
White
White: leaving out the brown cocoa solids makes it pale, and its cocoa butter is what US rules require to sell it as white chocolate.
Q 04As of 2024, which two neighbouring countries grew the most cocoa in the world?
Ivory Coast and Ghana
Ivory Coast and Ghana: Ghana's crop is traditionally credited to Tetteh Quarshie, who is said to have brought beans back from the island of Fernando Po.
Q 05Long ago, the Maya and Aztecs used cocoa beans as what?
Money
Beans paid for goods at market and were sent to rulers as tribute, so a chocolate drink was literally drinking your cash.
Q 06Chocolate contains theobromine, which most often poisons which household pet?
Dogs
Dogs: the darker the chocolate, the more of the toxic stuff it holds, so dark and baking chocolate are the most dangerous.
Q 07What is the little paper strip that sticks out of the top of a Hershey's Kiss called?
A plume
A plume: Hershey added it in 1921 so shoppers could tell a real Kiss from copycat chocolates.
Q 08When Hershey's Kisses were first made in 1907, how were they wrapped?
By hand
By hand: in 1921 a wrapping machine took over, and it began tucking a little paper strip into every Kiss.
Q 09Which chocolate bar, launched in 1930, was named after its makers' favourite horse?
Snickers
Snickers: yet in the UK it was sold as Marathon until 1990, when it finally took the horse's name there too.
Q 10In Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, which child falls into Willy Wonka's chocolate river?
Augustus Gloop
Augustus Gloop: the greedy boy leans too far over the river, falls in and gets sucked up a pipe.
Q 11What do the two M's in M&M's stand for?
Mars and Murrie
Mars and Murrie: Bruce Murrie was the son of a Hershey boss, so the deal kept Mars supplied with Hershey chocolate as wartime shortages loomed.
Q 12Which word completes the M&M's slogan, 'melts in your mouth, not in your ___'?
hand
Hand: during World War II, M&M's were sold only to the US military.
Q 13Which British sweet is M&M's thought to have been modelled on?
Smarties
Smarties: a candy shell kept the chocolate from melting, so it could be carried in warm weather.
Why are Kinder Surprise eggs banned from sale in the United States?
Q 21Toblerone's triangular shape is commonly said to be inspired by which mountain?
The Matterhorn
The Matterhorn: yet Tobler's sons said the shape came from a human pyramid formed by dancers at the Folies Bergère in Paris.
Q 22Which animal was hidden in the mountain on Toblerone's classic packaging?
A bear
A bear: it's the symbol of Bern, the city where Toblerone was first made, tucked into the mountain's outline.
Q 23Who wrote the 1964 book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory?
Roald Dahl
Roald Dahl: he was credited with writing the 1971 film, yet he disowned it after changes were made against his wishes.
They hide a toy inside
They hide a toy inside: a 1938 US law bars sweets with non-edible objects inside, so Americans got Kinder Joy instead in 2018.
Q 15Nutella is a sweet spread made from cocoa and which nut?
Hazelnuts
Hazelnuts: they make up about 13% of a jar, while cocoa is only about 7%, so it's really more nut spread than chocolate.
Q 16Ferrero, the company that makes Nutella, Kinder and Ferrero Rocher, comes from which country?
Italy
Italy: in 2018 Ferrero bought a big US candy business, including the Crunch bar, for about $2.8 billion.
Q 17In Japan, Kit Kats are popular before exams because the name sounds like a phrase meaning what?
Surely win
Surely win: 'kitto katsu' is a good-luck wish students often use before exams, so the bars double as lucky charms.
Q 18Reese's cups come in a pumpkin shape for which holiday?
Halloween
There are hearts for Valentine's Day, eggs for Easter and trees for Christmas too, all with the same peanut butter middle.
Q 19The pieces of a Kit Kat bar are known as what?
Fingers
Fingers: the story goes that the bar was born in 1935 after a worker at Rowntree's suggested a chocolate bar a man could take to work.
Q 20Which word completes Kit Kat's famous slogan, 'Have a ___, have a Kit Kat'?
break
Break: in the US, where Hershey makes Kit Kats, TV ads built a famous jingle around the same word.
Q 24How many Golden Tickets does Willy Wonka hide in his chocolate bars?
Five
Five: the finders win a factory tour and a lifetime supply of chocolate, and Charlie finds the very last one.
Q 25Who played Willy Wonka in the 1971 film Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory?
Gene Wilder
Gene Wilder: he took the part only if Wonka could first limp out with a cane, then tumble into a somersault.
Q 26Ruth Wakefield, credited with inventing chocolate chip cookies in the 1930s, ran an inn in which US state?
Massachusetts
Massachusetts: she and her husband ran the Toll House Inn in Whitman, which is why the recipe is called the Toll House cookie.
Q 27In which country did Daniel Peter create the first successful milk chocolate?
Switzerland
Switzerland: water in milk kept spoiling his chocolate, until he found a way to use milk with most of the water removed.
Q 28Milton Hershey built a whole town around his chocolate factory in which US state?
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania: he later placed his chocolate company's assets in a trust for a school he founded, originally for local orphans.
Q 29Before chocolate, Milton Hershey made his first fortune selling which sweet?
Caramels
Caramels: he sold his Lancaster Caramel Company for $1 million and used the proceeds to mass-produce milk chocolate, once a luxury.
Q 30Cadbury was founded in 1824 in which English city?
Birmingham
Birmingham: John Cadbury started out selling drinking chocolate, among other goods, from a shop on Bull Street.