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Chocolate quiz

How well do you really know Chocolate? These 8 questions start easy and end with a Boss round. There are no multiple choice options: you type what you know, and every answer is checked against the key facts.

60 seconds a question, one 2x boost, and a leaderboard. Playing with friends writes a fresh set of Chocolate questions for your group.

The questions

  1. Warm-up

    Milk chocolate looks and tastes different from dark chocolate: what key ingredient is added, and how does it affect the color and taste?

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    • Milk or milk solids are added
    • They make the chocolate lighter in color
    • They give it a creamier taste
  2. Medium

    What three ingredients usually go into a basic dark chocolate bar?

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    • Cocoa solids or cocoa mass
    • Cocoa butter
    • Sugar
  3. Medium

    Which familiar pet can’t taste chocolate’s sweetness, and what kind of food does its body mainly rely on?

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    • Cats
    • Animal-based foods
    • Meat
  4. Medium

    A chocolatier heats and cools chocolate just so: what’s this process called, and what two qualities does it give the finished chocolate?

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    • The process is called tempering
    • It gives chocolate a glossy shine
    • It gives chocolate a firm snap
  5. Medium

    Dutch-process cocoa gets a special treatment: what is done to it, and how does that affect its acidity?

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    • It is treated with an alkali, such as potassium carbonate
    • The treatment makes it less acidic or more neutral
    • It often gives the cocoa a darker color and milder taste
  6. Hard

    Spot a pale coating on stored chocolate: what is it called, and what causes fat bloom and sugar bloom?

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    • The coating is called bloom
    • Fat bloom happens when cocoa butter moves to the surface, often after temperature changes
    • Sugar bloom happens when moisture dissolves surface sugar and it recrystallizes
  7. Hard

    Cacao trees have some unusually placed flowers: where do they grow, and which tiny insects usually pollinate them?

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    • The flowers grow directly from the trunk and older branches, a pattern called cauliflory.
    • Tiny midges are the main pollinators.
  8. Boss

    During cocoa fermentation, what do yeasts and bacteria do, and how do those changes help create flavor precursors inside the beans?

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    • Yeasts consume sugars in the pulp and produce alcohol.
    • Bacteria produce acids, including acetic acid.
    • Heat and acids enter the beans and trigger reactions that form flavor precursors.

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