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Quiz: How much do you know about chocolate?

Will you be tucking into a chocolate egg this weekend?
10.01pm, 4 Apr 2026
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EASTER WEEKEND IS upon us, and for many that means at least one chocolate Easter egg will be consumed.

Between the soaring cost of certain products (we’re looking at you, Mini Eggs) and allegations some brands don’t taste the same, it’s understandable if you choose to forgo the egg tradition this year.

But even if the chocolately treats on offer this year are not to your taste, hopefully this quiz might be… 

How did the tradition of Easter eggs begin in 325 AD?
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Chocolatiers wanted to get rid of stale chocolate so they rebranded it as eggs
There was a shortage of hen eggs but an abundance of cocoa

Hen eggs were dyed red to represent Christ's blood
Cadbury invented them around fifty years ago
When was chocolate discovered?
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1877
1630

1200 BC
1828
In 1943 there was a plot to kill which well-known figure using an exploding chocolate bar?
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Winston Churchill
Adolf Hitler

Franklin D Roosevelt
Leon Trotsky
What ingredient does milk chocolate and dark chocolate have that white chocolate does not?
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Sugar
Cocoa butter

Cocoa solids
What was the original purpose of white chocolate?
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Glue
Medicine for children

An elaborate prank
An alternative to breakfast cereal
Which band wrote a 2013 song called Chocolate?
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Kings of Leon
The 1975

The Script
Arctic Monkeys
Last year it was reported that Cadbury's was replacing the eclair chocolate from Heroes boxes with which chocolate?
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Flake
Lotus Biscoff bar

Picnic bar
Starbar
Which well-known bar is no longer allowed to call itself a 'chocolate' product?
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Penguin bar
Club bars

Blue Riband
Toffee Crisp
Which chocolate bar is generally considered the best-selling globally?
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Snickers
Mars

KitKat
Dairy Milk
Which chocolate bar, launched in 1866, is considered the world's oldest manufactured chocolate bar?
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Fry's Chocolate Cream
Cadbury Dairy Milk

Nestlé Milk Chocolate
Lindt Chocolate
Answer all the questions to see your result!
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Chocolate aficionado
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You know your chocolate
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You aren't eating enough chocolate
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