Q 01/05

Chocolate is made from the roasted, ground seeds of which tree?

A) Maple

B) Cacao

C) Oak

D) Coconut palm

Answer · why

B) Cacao

The seeds grow inside big pods on the trunk and branches, and are fermented and dried before roasting.

Q 02/05

Theobroma, the scientific name of the tree chocolate comes from, means what?

A) Food of the gods

B) Bitter bean

C) Sweet brown water

D) Tree of happiness

Answer · why

A) Food of the gods

The Swedish scientist Carl Linnaeus gave it the name, and it comes from Greek.

Q 03/05

Which type of chocolate is ivory-coloured because its cocoa solids are all replaced by milk solids?

A) White

B) Dark

C) Baking

D) Ruby

Answer · why

A) White

It still counts as chocolate because it is made with cocoa butter, the fat from the cocoa bean.

Q 04/05

Which two West African countries grow about 60% of the world's cocoa?

A) Egypt and Morocco

B) Ivory Coast and Ghana

C) Brazil and Peru

D) India and Sri Lanka

Answer · why

B) Ivory Coast and Ghana

Cacao only grows in hot, rainy places close to the equator, so a few tropical countries supply almost everyone.

Q 05/05

Long ago, the Maya and Aztecs used cocoa beans as what?

A) Buttons

B) Marbles

C) Money

D) Fish bait

Answer · why

C) Money

Beans paid for goods at market and were sent to rulers as tribute, so a chocolate drink was literally drinking your cash.