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50 free Chocolate Trivia for Kids trivia questions with answers — food & drink quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
This chocolate trivia for kids quiz covers the sweet stuff the way a curious 8-to-12-year-old would want to learn it: which tree cocoa beans come from, why chocolate is dangerous for dogs, what the two M's in M&M's stand for, why Kinder Surprise eggs are not sold in America, how many hazelnuts go into a jar of Nutella and how many Golden Tickets Willy Wonka hid. Along the way it visits Hershey, Pennsylvania, the Cadbury factory in Birmingham, a Swiss mountain shaped like a Toblerone and the Aztec markets where cocoa beans were money. Most questions are easy enough for a family game night, a classroom treat or a car ride, and a handful at the end will stretch older kids and parents. If you want the tougher stuff, try our hard chocolate trivia, and the main chocolate trivia page has the full mix. Every answer has been checked against the Wikipedia article on the brand, the bar or the history, and each question shows its source once you have answered.
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Q 01Chocolate is made from the roasted, ground seeds of which tree?
Cacao
The seeds grow inside big pods on the trunk and branches, and are fermented and dried before roasting.
Q 02Theobroma, the scientific name of the tree chocolate comes from, means what?
Food of the gods
The Swedish scientist Carl Linnaeus gave it the name, and it comes from Greek.
Q 03Which type of chocolate is ivory-coloured because its cocoa solids are all replaced by milk solids?
White
It still counts as chocolate because it is made with cocoa butter, the fat from the cocoa bean.
Q 04Which two West African countries grow about 60% of the world's cocoa?
Ivory Coast and Ghana
Cacao only grows in hot, rainy places close to the equator, so a few tropical countries supply almost everyone.
Q 05Long ago, the Maya and Aztecs used cocoa beans as what?
Money
Beans paid for goods at market and were sent to rulers as tribute, so a chocolate drink was literally drinking your cash.
Q 06Chocolate contains theobromine, which makes it poisonous to which pet?
Dogs
Dogs break down theobromine much more slowly than people do, so even a small bar can make a small dog very ill.
Q 07What is the little paper strip that sticks out of the top of a Hershey's Kiss called?
A plume
It was added in 1921 so shoppers could tell a real Kiss from copycat chocolates.
Q 08About how many Hershey's Kisses are made every day?
More than 70 million
They come out of just two factories, and Kisses are one of the best-selling candies in the United States.
Q 09When Hershey's Kisses were first made in 1907, how were they wrapped?
By hand
A wrapping machine took over in 1921, the same year the paper plume appeared.
Q 10The Snickers bar was named after what?
A horse
The Mars family's favourite horse gave its name to the bar when it launched in 1930.
Q 11The Milky Way chocolate bar was named after what?
A malted milk drink
Frank Mars wanted the bar to taste like a milkshake you could carry in your pocket.
Q 12What do the two M's in M&M's stand for?
Mars and Murrie
Bruce Murrie was the son of the president of Hershey, Mars's biggest rival, and the deal gave Mars a supply of Hershey chocolate.
Q 13Finish the M&M's slogan: "melts in your mouth, not in your..."
hand
The hard sugar shell was invented so soldiers could carry chocolate in hot weather without a mess.
Q 21Reese's cups come in a pumpkin shape for which holiday?
Halloween
There are hearts for Valentine's Day, eggs for Easter and trees for Christmas too, all with the same peanut butter middle.
Q 22The pieces of a Kit Kat bar are known as what?
Fingers
Standard bars come with two or four of them, and Japan sells dozens of unusual flavours.
Q 23Finish the Kit Kat slogan used since 1958: "Have a..."
break
The bar was first sold in 1935 in Britain as Rowntree's Chocolate Crisp.
Q 24Toblerone's triangular shape is commonly said to be inspired by which mountain?
Q 14Forrest Mars got the idea for M&M's after seeing soldiers eating which British sweet?
Smarties
He saw them during the Spanish Civil War in the 1930s and patented his own version in 1941.
Q 15As of 2016, about how many Kinder Surprise eggs had been sold since they launched in 1974?
30 billion
The egg copies an Italian Easter tradition of giving children a big chocolate egg with a toy inside.
Q 16Why are Kinder Surprise eggs not sold in the United States?
A law bans candy with a non-food object inside
The 1938 Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act is the reason, so a toy-free version called Kinder Joy is sold there instead.
Q 17Nutella is a sweet spread made from cocoa and which nut?
Hazelnuts
It was invented in Alba, an Italian town famous for growing them.
Q 18About how many nuts go into a 220 g jar of Nutella?
50
The first jar left the Ferrero factory in Alba on 20 April 1964.
Q 19Ferrero, the company that makes Nutella, Kinder and Ferrero Rocher, comes from which country?
Italy
It started as a small bakery run by Pietro Ferrero in the town of Alba.
Q 20"Rocher", the second word in Ferrero Rocher, is French for what?
Rock
Michele Ferrero named it after a rocky grotto at the shrine of Lourdes.
The Matterhorn
The name mixes Tobler, the founder's surname, with torrone, the Italian word for nougat.
Q 25Which animal was hidden in the mountain on Toblerone's classic packaging?
A bear
It is the symbol of Bern, the Swiss city where Toblerone was invented in 1908 and made exclusively until 2022.
Q 26Who wrote the 1964 book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory?
Roald Dahl
Dahl also wrote the screenplay for the first film version in 1971.
Q 27How many Golden Tickets does Willy Wonka hide in his chocolate bars?
Five
Each finder gets a factory tour and a lifetime supply of chocolate, and Charlie finds the last one.
Q 28Who played Willy Wonka in the 1971 film Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory?
Gene Wilder
Johnny Depp took the role in 2005 and Timothée Chalamet played a young Wonka in 2023.
Q 29In which US state did Ruth Wakefield invent the chocolate chip cookie in the 1930s?
Massachusetts
She and her husband ran the Toll House Inn, which is why the recipe is still called the Toll House cookie.
Q 30Which company first sold white chocolate bars in shops, in 1936?
Nestlé
For a long time Europeans thought of it as a food just for children.