Q 01/05

The earliest evidence of cacao domestication, around 3300 BC, comes from which South American country?

A) Brazil

B) Ecuador

C) Peru

D) Colombia

Answer · why

B) Ecuador

The Mayo-Chinchipe culture were using cacao roughly 1,500 years before the earliest signs of it in Mesoamerica.

Q 02/05

The genus name of the cacao tree, coined by Linnaeus in 1753, is Greek for what?

A) Food of the gods

B) Bitter brown water

C) Sacred golden seed

D) Drink of the kings

Answer · why

A) Food of the gods

The species name cacao came into science via Spanish from the Nahuatl word for the beans.

Q 03/05

Daniel Peter's 1875 milk chocolate used condensed milk created by which neighbour and friend?

A) Rodolphe Lindt

B) Philippe Suchard

C) Henri Nestlé

D) Jean Tobler

Answer · why

C) Henri Nestlé

Peter named his product 'Gala', after the Greek word for milk.

Q 04/05

Which country bans Kinder Surprise eggs under a 1938 law against 'non-nutritive objects' in sweets?

A) United Kingdom

B) Australia

C) United States

D) South Korea

Answer · why

C) United States

In 1997 the Consumer Product Safety Commission recalled eggs that had been smuggled in with foreign labels.

Q 05/05

Which chocolate smoothing process did Rodolphe Lindt invent, supposedly after leaving a mixer running all weekend?

A) Conching

B) Tempering

C) Winnowing

D) Dutching

Answer · why

A) Conching

It made mass-produced bars practical and helped push out drinking chocolate as the main way people consumed it.