10 free Chocolate From Around the World trivia questions with answers — food & drink quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Did you know that Ecuador produces some of the world's finest cacao, yet most people can't name a single origin? This chocolate quiz tests whether you're a casual snacker or a true connoisseur. Let's see how many you can get right.
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Q 01The earliest evidence of cacao domestication, around 3300 BC, comes from which South American country?
Ecuador
The Mayo-Chinchipe culture were using cacao roughly 1,500 years before the earliest signs of it in Mesoamerica.
Q 02The genus name of the cacao tree, coined by Linnaeus in 1753, is Greek for what?
Food of the gods
The species name cacao came into science via Spanish from the Nahuatl word for the beans.
Q 03Daniel Peter's 1875 milk chocolate used condensed milk created by which neighbour and friend?
Henri Nestlé
Peter named his product 'Gala', after the Greek word for milk.
Q 04Which country bans Kinder Surprise eggs under a 1938 law against 'non-nutritive objects' in sweets?
United States
In 1997 the Consumer Product Safety Commission recalled eggs that had been smuggled in with foreign labels.
Q 05Which chocolate smoothing process did Rodolphe Lindt invent, supposedly after leaving a mixer running all weekend?
Conching
It made mass-produced bars practical and helped push out drinking chocolate as the main way people consumed it.
Q 06What color are raw, unfermented cacao beans typically before they are processed into chocolate?
Purple
Fermentation heat turns them brown; rare white seeds do occur and are considered more valuable.
Q 07Besides being drunk, what everyday role did cocoa beans play in Mesoamerica from at least 400 BC?
Currency
Beans and the vessels for serving chocolate were also handed over as gifts and tribute.
Q 08Which country led world cocoa bean production in 2024 with about 38% of the total?
Ivory Coast
More than 70% of the crop is grown in Africa, and cacao only reached the Gold Coast when a Ghanaian, Tetteh Quarshie, brought it in.
Q 09Which company launched the naturally pink 'ruby' variety in 2017 as a fourth type of chocolate?
Barry Callebaut
Industry experts have debated whether it is a real fourth kind or a marketing claim; one critic noted Peruvian makers had produced pink chocolate for years.
Q 10Which Belgian city has Choco-Story, a chocolate museum, alongside a museum of Belgian fries?
Bruges
The 2019 Hallmark film Love, Romance & Chocolate was set there.