Q 01/05

Ruth Wakefield created the chocolate chip cookie at her Toll House Inn in which US state?

A) Massachusetts

B) Pennsylvania

C) Connecticut

D) New York

Answer · why

A) Massachusetts

The inn stood in Whitman, in a building that had allegedly served as a toll house as early as 1709. The state made the chocolate chip cookie its offic...

Q 02/05

Along with a $1 payment, what did Ruth Wakefield receive from Nestlé for the rights to print her recipe?

A) A seat on Nestlé's board

B) A lifetime supply of chocolate

C) A share of every bag sold

D) A factory named in her honour

Answer · why

B) A lifetime supply of chocolate

The deal also included a consulting role. Nestlé's morsels ended up carrying her Toll House recipe on the packaging for decades.

Q 03/05

What name did Nestlé give the small tear-shaped chocolate pieces it started selling in 1940?

A) Chips

B) Drops

C) Morsels

D) Bits

Answer · why

C) Morsels

The year before, Nestlé had been selling chocolate bars pre-scored into 160 segments so bakers could break them up for the recipe.

Q 04/05

Contrary to the popular myth, how did Ruth Wakefield say her chocolate chip cookie came about?

A) Chocolate fell into her mixer

B) She had run out of baker's chocolate

C) A guest suggested it

D) She invented it deliberately

Answer · why

D) She invented it deliberately

The 'happy accident' story has been repeated for decades, but Wakefield, a trained home economics teacher and dietitian, insisted the recipe was worke...

Q 05/05

Oreo was launched in 1912 as an imitation of which earlier cream-filled sandwich cookie?

A) Hydrox

B) Vienna Fingers

C) Bordeaux

D) Marie

Answer · why

A) Hydrox

The original had been on shelves since 1908, but the copy became the world's best-selling cookie brand while the original faded, was discontinued in 1...