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50 free Chocolate Bars trivia questions with answers — food & drink quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Every chocolate bar has a story, and most of them are stranger than the adverts. Snickers was named after a horse, Milky Way after a milkshake, Baby Ruth (officially) after a president's daughter, and the Ritter Sport is square because Clara Ritter wanted a bar that fitted a sports jacket pocket. This quiz covers the famous bars of Britain, America and beyond, from Fry's Chocolate Cream of 1866, the oldest bar brand still made, to Kinder Bueno and the Wispa comeback. Expect questions on who makes what and where, the year the KitKat wrapper went blue, why Twix was Raider in Europe and Snickers was Marathon in Britain, what Toblerone's name means, the Yorkie trucker, the Freddo that was nearly a mouse, the 99 Flake, the Wonka Bar that Quaker Oats built a film to sell, and the 1938 US law that keeps Kinder Surprise off American shelves. Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Sweden and Germany get their bars in too. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's articles on the individual bars and the companies behind them, so the launch dates, makers and name origins are reliable.
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Q 01Fry's Chocolate Cream, the world's oldest chocolate bar brand, was launched in which year?
1866
Its fondant centre made it the first mass-produced combination bar; George Lazenby advertised it as 'the Big Fry'.
Q 02Cadbury Dairy Milk was first made in 1905 in which city?
Birmingham
During development it was variously called Highland Milk, Jersey and Dairy Maid.
Q 03Cadbury's 1928 'glass and a half' slogan advertised its flagship bar's high content of what?
Milk
In the US the bar is made under licence by Hershey with a different recipe.
Q 04Which was Frank Mars's first bar, launched in 1923 and named after a malted milk drink, not the galaxy?
Milky Way
Outside the US the same nougat-and-caramel bar is sold as the Mars bar.
Q 05The Mars bar was first made in 1932 by Forrest Mars Sr. in which English town?
Slough
He modelled it on his father's Milky Way, adjusted for European tastes, with a staff of twelve.
Q 06Snickers, introduced in 1930, was named after what?
The Mars family's favourite horse
It was sold in Britain and Ireland as Marathon until 1990.
Q 07Until 1990, Snickers was sold in Britain and Ireland under what name?
Marathon
Morrisons sold a Marathon retro edition for three months in 2019.
Q 08The name Twix is a portmanteau of what?
Twin sticks
It was made in Slough from 1967 and sold as Raider in mainland Europe until 1991.
Q 093 Musketeers originally contained three pieces in which flavours?
Chocolate, strawberry and vanilla
Wartime sugar restrictions killed off all but the chocolate piece.
Q 10KitKat was launched in York in 1935 under what name?
Chocolate Crisp
It followed a suggestion-box request for a bar 'a man could take to work in his pack up'.
Q 11Which company makes KitKat in the United States, under a licence Rowntree's first agreed in 1970?
Hershey
Everywhere else it has been Nestlé's since the 1988 takeover of Rowntree's.
Q 12KitKat's slogan 'Have a break... have a Kit Kat' dates from its first British TV advert in which year?
1958
During the war the bar had briefly gone dark-chocolate in a blue wrapper.
Q 13Toblerone's name combines the founder's surname Tobler with 'torrone', the Italian word for what?
Nougat
Emil Baumann, Tobler's cousin, devised the recipe of milk chocolate, nougat, almonds and honey in 1908.
Q 21Almond Joy shares packaging and a logo with its nut-free sibling but uses which colour scheme?
Blue
Its sibling bar is red; the Peter Paul company was founded by six Armenian immigrants.
Q 22Nestlé's 100 Grand bar was originally sold under what name?
$100,000 Bar
Radio DJs have repeatedly used the name to prank giveaway 'winners'.
Q 23Charleston Chew, created in 1922, is named after what?
A popular dance
Founder Donley Cross was a stage actor; the bar is famously eaten frozen.
Q 24Which Cadbury honeycomb bar was launched by Fry's in 1929?
Q 14Toblerone was made exclusively in which Swiss city until 2022?
Bern
Some production then moved to Bratislava in Slovakia.
Q 15Milton S.'s 'Great American Chocolate Bar' from Pennsylvania first went on sale in which year?
1900
Milton Hershey had sold his Lancaster Caramel Company that August to concentrate on chocolate.
Q 16Before creating Reese's Peanut Butter Cups in 1928, H. B. Reese had worked for Milton S. of chocolate fame as what?
A dairy farmer and shipping foreman
He lost his job when the Round Barn he managed was shut to save money.
Q 17Curtiss Candy insisted Baby Ruth was named after the daughter of which president, not the ballplayer?
Grover Cleveland
Ruth Cleveland had died 17 years earlier; the company was on the same street as Wrigley Field.
Q 18How did Curtiss famously promote Baby Ruth in the 1920s?
Dropping bars over cities from aeroplanes
By 1925 it was the most popular candy bar in the US, sold under 'Everything you want for a nickel'.
Q 19Which cartoon character advertised Butterfinger from 1988 to 2001?
Bart Simpson
The bar's name was chosen by public contest after Otto Schnering invented it in 1923.
Q 20The PayDay bar, launched by the Hollywood Candy Company in 1932, got its name because of what?
It was first made on the day staff got paid
The classic bar has no chocolate at all: salted peanuts around a caramel centre.
Crunchie
Its cinder toffee centre is now made in Poland.
Q 25Cadbury's Wispa, discontinued in 2003, returned in 2007 after what?
An internet campaign by fans
Fans even invaded the stage at Glastonbury 2007 with a 'Bring Back the Wispa' banner.
Q 26Rowntree's launched Yorkie in 1976 to fill a gap in the market for what kind of bar?
A 'manly' chunky bar
The 'Yorkie bar trucker' starred in its adverts until 1992.
Q 27The Curly Wurly's ladder shape came about when a Cadbury confectioner experimented with what?
Surplus toffee from another project
David John Parfitt's creation launched in 1970.
Q 28Cadbury's Double Decker takes its name from what?
A bus
It combines nougat with a hint of coffee and crisp cereal, and dates from 1976.
Q 29The Cadbury Flake was discovered by chance in 1920 when a Bournville worker noticed what?
Excess chocolate falling from moulds in flaky ripples
Half-length Flakes for ice-cream cones, the 99, were on sale by 1930.
Q 30Rowntree's patented which bubbly bar in 1935, launching it in the North of England as 'the new chocolate'?
Aero
Nestlé has made it since 1988; the bubbles collapse as the bar melts.