Chocolate and sweets quiz
Checked on 12 November 2026
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Chocolate is made from the seeds of which tree?
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The answer is Cacao.
Cocoa beans are the fermented and dried seeds of the cacao tree, and they are the basis of all chocolate.
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White chocolate is made with sugar, milk and which part of the cocoa bean?
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The answer is Cocoa butter.
White chocolate is made from cocoa butter, sugar and milk solids, which is why it is ivory in color.
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In Britain, cotton candy is usually called what?
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The answer is Candy floss.
Cotton candy, the fluffy spun sugar sold at fairs, is known as candy floss in Britain.
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Nougat is a chewy sweet that is usually packed with what?
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The answer is Nuts.
Nougat is made with sugar or honey and whipped egg white, and it is usually studded with nuts such as almonds.
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As of 2024, which country grows the most cocoa beans in the world?
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The answer is Cote d'Ivoire.
Cote d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) in West Africa leads world cocoa production, ahead of its neighbor Ghana.
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Besides using them in food and drink, what did the Maya and Aztecs also use cocoa beans as?
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The answer is Money.
In Mesoamerica cocoa beans were valuable enough to be traded as a form of currency.
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The first marshmallows were made using which part of the marsh mallow plant?
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The answer is The root.
The first marshmallows were made by boiling pieces of marsh mallow root pulp with honey until thick.
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The cacao tree was first domesticated at least 5,300 years ago in what is now which country?
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The answer is Ecuador.
Archaeologists found that the Mayo-Chinchipe culture of southeast Ecuador used cacao more than 5,300 years ago.
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The licorice plant, whose root flavors licorice candy, belongs to which plant family?
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The answer is The legume (bean) family.
Licorice comes from Glycyrrhiza glabra, a flowering plant of the bean family whose root gives a sweet flavoring.
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In Australia, cotton candy is known by which name?
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The answer is Fairy floss.
Australians call cotton candy fairy floss, the same name it was sold under at the 1904 World's Fair.