Chocolate - Cadbury's World Trivia Quiz

Answer: John Cadbury

John Cadbury (1801-1889) opened a shop in Bull Street, Birmingham in 1824. He was a tea dealer and coffee roaster, but he experimented with cocoa beans - preparing small quantities to sell in his shop. Benjamin Head was his brother and he later became one of the original Cadbury Brothers.

Their father, Richard Tapper Cadbury owned a linen draper's shop in Birmingham. George Cadbury was John's son who established the Bournville factory and founded the village of Bournville.

Answer: There is no sure date

No one knows for sure when the first chocolate bar appeared or even who made it, but an important event occurred in 1828. The Van Houten press was invented, which extracted cocoa butter from the bean - the same press that brought the Cadbury Brothers success with Cocoa Essence.

Answer: Swiss

The idea of combining chocolate and milk was not an entirely new concept, as between 1849 and 1875 the Cadbury Brothers sold a milk chocolate drink. But the Swiss chocolate bar was a huge success in Britain, and in 1898, Cadbury Brothers responded with their own chocolate bar.

They sent George Cadbury Jr. on a fact-finding mission to Switzerland. Eventually in 1905, they produced a bar with a flavour to rival the Swiss chocolate, using fresh milk rather than powdered. Cadbury's Dairy Milk chocolate was born.

Answer: Richard Barrow Cadbury (nephew)

John Cadbury rented a factory in Bridge Street after leaving Crooked Lane. His elder brother Benjamin left their father's drapery shop to help in Bridge Street and their nephew Richard Barrow Cadbury took over the Bull Street shop, which later became Barrow's stores.

Answer: 1861

When John's wife Candia died in 1855, he never seemed to recover, and with his energy and drive gone, business declined. When John retired officially in 1861, there were less than a dozen employees.

Answer: Maya

The Maya people used the cocoa beans for making a drink which they called 'chocolatl' and as currency. Four beans could buy a pumpkin, ten for a rabbit and one hundred for a slave. Cocoa beans were so valuable that they were given as ceremonial gifts.

Answer: True

When Anne of Austria (daughter of Phillip II of Spain) married King Louis XIII of France she brought the secret of chocolate with her, along with her maid La Molina, who prepared the royal chocolate for all members of the royal family.

Answer: West Africa

Cocoa trees grow best in the humid climate of the tropical regions of the world - most cocoa grows within 20 degrees of the Equator. Cadbury imports cocoa from West Africa, from places like Sierra Leone, Ghana, Nigeria, Zaire and Congo.

Answer: False

White's Chocolate House was opened by Italian immigrant Francis White in 1693. The chocolate drinks in these houses were made from blocks of chocolate prepared and imported from Spain. Various recipes were on offer as well as ale, beer, snacks and coffee.

Answer: 330 acres and 300 houses

George never intended Bournville to become a "factory" village, he wanted to provide houses for a wide range of people and create a mixed community. Only the first houses in Bournville were exclusively for factory employees, the foremen and other essential workers.

Answer: 1915

Milk Tray was introduced in 1915 in open boxes arranged on wooden trays. Today, with its distinctive purple and gold cartons and popularised by the "Man in Black" television adverts, its one of the most popular chocolate assortments.

Answer: Crunchie

Crunchie was created in 1929 and is made at Cadbury's Somerdale factory at a rate of 5 miles every hour. Random fact: If all the Crunchies eaten in one year were placed end to end they would reach all they way from Bournville to Bangkok and back!

Answer: Wispa

Wispa is a modern success story. The production of this bar uses modern technology to control the size of the bubbles in the chocolate to within 0.2-0.3mm. Cadbury's Wispa machinery can make 1680 bars a minute. Following its sensational launch in 1981, it soon became a major brand.

Answer: Roses

Roses were launched in 1938 in a carton with the distinctive blue pack and red rose design, based on the popular "Dorothy Bag" of the time. Cadbury sells over 13,000 tonnes of Roses chocolates a year.

Answer: John Major

Since opened by Prime Minister The Rt. Hon. John Major, Cadbury's World became a major tourist attraction, welcoming over 400,000 visitors every year.