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Quiz: How much do you know about chocolate?
Will you be tucking into a chocolate egg this weekend?
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
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You scored out of !
Chocolate aficionado
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You scored out of !
You know your chocolate
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You scored out of !
You aren't eating enough chocolate
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