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What region is the world’s largest producer of cocoa beans?
Brazil
Ivory Coast
Guatemala
Peru
What are the two main types of cocoa trees?
Amharic and Afan Oromo
Cliftonia and Malus
Criollo and Forestero
Cacaoabunga and Trinitario
Who first marketed chocolate in the United States?
George Cadbury
Milton Hershey
Frank Mars
Dr. John Baker
During the 15th-Century reign of Aztec emperor Montezuma, cocoa beans were used as currency. How many beans did it take to buy a slave? A mule?
100 beans for a slave, 50 for a mule
150 beans for a slave, 150 for a mule
200 beans for a slave, 100 for a mule
150 for a slave, 100 for a mule
What has the least amount of caffeine?
12-oz. cup of green tea
12-oz. cup of black tea
12-oz. cup of coffee
1.5-oz. bar of dark chocolate
What is a molinillo?
A stone the Mayans used to grind cocoa beans
A Spanish unit of measurement equal to a half bushel
A Mexican stirrer
A sapling cocoa tree
Which Spanish explorer took cocoa beans back to the Old World?
Francisco Vasquez de Coronado
Hernando Cortez
Francisco Pizarro
Christopher Columbus
Who first added vanilla to chocolate as a flavor enhancer?
Rodolphe Lindt
Spanish Emperor Philip III
British apothecary G.S. Thomson
The Mayans
Who “discovered” milk chocolate?
The Spanish
An English housewife
An American businessman
Two Swiss entrepreneurs
How do you make white chocolate
white
?
Through a bleaching process
Processing light-colored cocoa beans
By not using chocolate liquor
None of the above
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