Andrea Mulder-Slater
Answers at the bottom of the page.
1. Where can you go in the United States and smell chocolate all the time?
a. Cocoa Beach, Florida
b. Hershey, Pennsylvania
c. Carmel, California
2. Can you guess how many chocolate bars the largest chocolate factory makes each year?
a. over a million
b. over a billion
c. over a trillion
3. It takes almost one quart (about 1 liter) of milk to make a one-pound bar of milk chocolate -- true of false?
4. White chocolate has real chocolate in it -- true of false?
5. What does "M & M®" stand for?
6. How did Hershey's Kisses® get their name?
a. Mr. Hershey's wife kissed him after she tried his tasty new candy. b. They were first made for Valentine's Day gifts. c. "Kiss" is an old name for any small piece of chocolate wrapped in foil.
7. If you eat lots chocolate, you'll get lots of:
a. cavities
b. pimples
c. both cavities and pimples
d. neither cavities nor pimples
8. What was the name of the famous character who had his own chocolate factory?
a. Charlie Brown
b. ET
c. Willy Wonka
d. Donald Duck
9. Would the world's tallest chocolate egg have fit inside your bedroom?
a. sure--it was about the size of a watermelon
b. probably--it was about 7 feet (2 meters) tall
c. no way--unless you have an 18-foot (51/2 meters) ceiling.
10. Where do you think the first chocolate bunny was made?
a. England
b. Australia
c. Pennsylvania
d. Disney World
11. Which of these things do you think have been made out of chocolate?
a. jigsaw puzzle
b. chess set
c. model of a computer diskette
d. model of the Statue of Liberty
e. all of these
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ANSWERS:
1. (B) Chocolate fans go wild in Hershey, the famous home of the Hershey® Chocolate Company. The town smells of different kinds of chocolate each day, depending on what the factory is making.
2. (B) Over a billion chocolate bars are made each year at Hershey's factory.
3. TRUE
4. FALSE. White chocolate contains lots of cocoa butter, which comes from cacao beans. But it doesn't have the secret ingredient of all "true chocolate": chocolate liquor.
5. (B) M & M® candies may be munchy and mouthwatering, but they were named after their inventors, Forrest Mars and Bruce Murrie
6. (C)
7. (D) As far as scientist can tell, Pure chocolate does not cause pimples. And chocolate may protect your teeth against cavities. It's the sugar and other things added to chocolate candy that cause problems.
8. (C) Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory was a movie that was based on the book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Raold Dahl.
9. (C) The giant egg was 17 feet, 9 inches (about 5 1/2 m) tall and it weighed over 2 1/2 tons (2250 kg).
10 (D)
11. (E) All of those things and more have been out of chocolate by chocolate makers all over the world.
