Chocolate Solves Everything Quiz | Thematic Food

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1. We are starting our hunt in Animals. Try not to tread in anything nasty on your way through. Now chocolate is poisonous to some animals, but a lot of animals do get made out of chocolate. Which chocolate animals proliferate around Easter time?

Answer: Rabbits

Rabbits and hares have been associated with spring, fertility and renewal of the seasons since pagan times. The first chocolate bunnies are credited to the Germans who started making cakes and pastries in rabbit shapes as far back as the early 1800s. Today they, and their furry counterparts, are an established part of Easter.

2. No luck there, but we did find a hidden door tucked away behind the cow sheds. It seems to lead into Sports. Gosh it's ever so clean and tidy and up to date in here. Chocolate is not something normally associated with sport, but which chocolate manufacturer was announced as a sponsor of the 2012 Olympics?

Answer: Cadbury

Cadbury first dipped their toes into sports related activities with the "Get Active" campaign where sweet wrappers could be used to collect vouchers to redeem for sports equipment for schools. There was quite heavy criticism of this, so it was quite surprising when they decided to become the "official treat" of the 2012 Olympics with a �20M sponsorship deal.

3. Wiping up our dirty footprints as we go, we leave Sports and take the corridor to Humanities via the heavily guarded chocolate vault. Fighting our way through melted watches, we come face to face with a chocolate soldier, but not one we can eat. Who wrote the operetta "The Chocolate Soldier"?

Answer: Oscar Straus

Based on the George Bernard Shaw play "Arms and The Man", "The Chocolate Solider" premiered in 1908 in Vienna and was an immediate success. In 1909 it opened on Broadway and was the hit of the season, a success which was repeated in London in 1910. George Bernard Shaw refused to take any payment for allowing his story to be used, and is reported to have hated the operetta, describing it as "putrid".

4. Well, Humanities drew a blank, although we did at least find some mention of chocolate. Singing as we go, we troop on through to People, and find a man who created fabulous Easter eggs, but once again we have not found edible chocolate. Who was the master jeweller who created jewelled Easter eggs for the Russian court?

Answer: Faberge

Working in Moscow from around 1885 until 1917, Faberge was the jeweller to the Russian Imperial Court. Although he made thousands of beautiful things, all of great value, his masterpieces are undoubtedly the Imperial Easter Eggs. Made in bejeweled gold, each one opened up to contain the famous "surprise". By tradition, only Faberge knew what the surprise would be, even the Tsar did not know. Each year they became more and more elaborate.

They are now highly prized collectibles which rarely come onto the market.

5. Our next port of call is Geography. Having hunted through the high mountains to the low valleys, no chocolate is to be found. Then we find a drawer marked "Bournville" - aha is this it? No, sadly not, it turns out to be a place. In which country is the village called Bournville?

Answer: England

The Quaker Cadbury family built the model village of Bourneville in 1893 for the workers at their chocolate factory. The houses were well designed and airy, and each had a large garden. Cadbury was well known as a philanthropic employer, paying good wages and providing staff medical care and pensions.

Bourneville was designed to keep their staff fit and healthy with good living conditions, parks and outdoor sports venues. As they were Quakers, no public houses were permitted within the village, which is located on the south side of Birmingham.

6. Giving up on Geography, we turn our attention to Hobbies; surely somewhere in Homes and Gardens there must be some chocolate. We can actually smell it! Unfortunately what we can smell turns out to be a plant. Which plant has a variety that smells of chocolate?

Answer: Cosmos

The chocolate cosmos is native to Mexico, and in British gardens it is not hardy, so needs to be lifted and protected over winter if it is to survive. It has dark red to brown blooms and a lovely chocolate smell. It can be easily propagated from seed or cuttings.

7. I can't believe we didn't find even a bit of cooking chocolate in Homes and Gardens. Ah well, on to Music. They're bound to have some hidden amongst the little used sheet music section or somewhere like that. All we find, though, is someone singing about chocolate. In 1960, who sang "Hot Chocolate Crazy"?

Answer: Eden Kane

Eden Kane is the brother of Peter Sarstedt. "Hot Chocolate Crazy" started life as an advertising jingle for Cadbury chocolate, but was so popular that Pye decided to release it as a single. He followed this up with his only single to reach number one on the UK Singles Chart, "Well I Ask You". Like many other artists of his era his fortunes waned when The Beatles appeared, and he moved to America.

He married the sister of actress Stephanie Powers and became a record producer.

8. No luck in Music, but from a door tucked away behind the organ music questions we take a short cut into Literature. Delving through the Shakespeare tragedies section doesn't turn up anything, but obviously authors crave chocolate almost as much as quiz writers because a lot of books have chocolate in the title. Who wrote "Friends, Lovers, Chocolate"?

Answer: Alexander McCall Smith

"Friends, Lovers, Chocolate" was the second book in the "Sunday Philosophy Club" series of novels featuring Isabel Dalhousie. Alexander McCall Smith also wrote the hugely popular "No.1 Ladies Detective Agency" series of books as well as the "44 Scotland Street" series, featuring day-to-day life of a group of people living at the same address in Edinburgh.

9. We need to study this a little more scientifically, so we'll pop into Sci/Tech for a minute. Ignore the body parts lying around, and head for botany. Where does chocolate actually come from?

Answer: It grows on trees

Chocolate actually grows on trees. It starts life as a pod on the tropical cacao tree. These pods contain the seeds, or beans, from which chocolate is made. When harvested they are very bitter, and have to be fermented for any time from a few days to a couple of weeks.

This fermentation process turns the beans into something much more like chocolate. After fermentation, the beans are dried and then shipped off to factories to become the chocolate we all know and love.

10. Swiftly leaving Sci/Tech (you should see some of things they do in there), we enter General and finally find ourselves face-to-face with the object of our desire. In 2005, which company made what they claimed was the world's largest edible Easter egg?

Answer: Guylian

Belgian company Guylian had 26 people working for 525 hours to make this gigantic egg. It took 4,300 pounds of chocolate to make, and when complete it stood 27.3 feet tall and 21 feet wide. It was made to mark the renovation of Saint Niklaas square, which is Belgium's largest market square. Unfortunately I haven't been able to trace what became of it. I can only hope it was enjoyed by a large number of people.

Source: Author StarStruck60

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