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Quiz about Bobs Escape From the Chocolate Vault
Quiz about Bobs Escape From the Chocolate Vault

Bob's Escape From the Chocolate Vault Quiz


So Bob sneaked into the Vault, bent on secret munchings, but alas, he sprang the trap and there's no escape! Can you solve the clues and help Bob puzzle his way out of the Chocolate Vault before he gives in to temptation and eats until his teeth fall out

A multiple-choice quiz by Rowena8482. Estimated time: 7 mins.
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Author
Rowena8482
Time
7 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
344,230
Updated
Dec 03 21
# Qns
10
Difficulty
Tough
Avg Score
6 / 10
Plays
285
Question 1 of 10
1. Bob is trapped in the Chocolate Vault, and whilst at first this seems like every chocoholic's dream come true, he soon realises that, well, there IS such a thing as too much chocolate. Needing to puzzle out his escape route, Bob decides a quick prayer might help and asks the patron saint of confectioners and pastry chefs for aid. Which Saint is this? Hint


Question 2 of 10
2. The only possible weak spot in the walls of the Chocolate Vault, where Bob is trapped, appears to be a tiny crevice where a tree root has made its way through. Being something of an expert, Bob remembers that cocoa beans grow on the Theobroma cacao tree. Which part of the world is the wild Theobroma cacao native to? Hint


Question 3 of 10
3. Bob is well and truly trapped in the Chocolate Vault, and is starting to feel a little queasy from the proximity of so much chocolate. He spends a few minutes in contemplation and thinks that if only he had a couple of pet cocoa weevils, they could help him out by "eating the evidence" and reducing the piles stacked high around the vault. Which of these is the cocoa weevil Bob yearns for? Hint


Question 4 of 10
4. As Bob searches the Chocolate Vault for a means of escape, he is forced to hastily avert his gaze from a large mural depicting a naked lady on horseback, which covers one wall from top to bottom (if you'll pardon the pun).
Had he not been busy blushing he might have recognised it as a portrait of Lady Godiva of Coventry, used as the logo of her namesake chocolatier. Founded in the 1920s, in which city was the first Godiva chocolate shop?
Hint


Question 5 of 10
5. Trapped in the Chocolate Vault, surrounded by heaps of sweets, Bob can't help wishing there was something savoury to snack on. Nose twitching, he catches a whiff of something that is definitely meaty. The delicious aroma leads him to a large crate labelled Vosges Haut-Chocolat. Which of these flavours does this company NOT use in their chocolate bars? Hint


Question 6 of 10
6. Bob's plight seems hopeless - will he be trapped in the Chocolate Vault forever? If only there was someone to save him! A vague memory of a cartoon he once saw comes to Bob's mind; if only that supreme martial artist was here now... who was the apt superhero alter ego of Kevin King? Hint


Question 7 of 10
7. Still trapped within the confines of the Chocolate Vault, Bob hears a very faint sound. He presses his ear to the wall - could this be the sound of the vault owners coming to catch him red handed? It sounds like the howling of bloodhounds and it sends a shiver down his spine.
He calms himself when he remembers that chocolate is actually poisonous to dogs - what is the chemical constituent of cacao beans that makes them so deadly?
Hint


Question 8 of 10
8. In a shadowy corner in the deepest, darkest recess of the Chocolate Vault, Bob stumbles upon a pitiful sight. A skeleton lies there, surrounded by sweetie packaging, the lids of which each have a letter embossed on them. These letters spell out the words "Abandon hope all ye who enter here" and poor Bob shudders in fear.
Which company made chocolate "Smarties" sweets, sold in the UK, in tubes with a letter of the alphabet on the inside of the lid?
Hint


Question 9 of 10
9. As Bob's quest for an escape route from the Chocolate Vault continues, he stumbles across a pile of bricks in a shadowy corner. Brown, heavy, strangely chocolatey smelling bricks. Whipping off his socks Bob quickly ties one of the bricks to a handy stick, and attacks the wall ferociously.
These "chocolate bricks" were developed by the Hershey company, as emergency rations for the US military. How are they sometimes known?
Hint


Question 10 of 10
10. At last, Bob sees his freedom is within his grasp. Unable to resist a "big moment" before he leaves the Chocolate Vault forever, he declaims these Shakespearean lines:
"Last scene of all, That ends this strange eventful history,
Is second childishness and mere oblivion,
Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything."
The play from which they come is set in the Forest of Arden, which historically occupied which of these chocolate related sites?
Hint



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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. Bob is trapped in the Chocolate Vault, and whilst at first this seems like every chocoholic's dream come true, he soon realises that, well, there IS such a thing as too much chocolate. Needing to puzzle out his escape route, Bob decides a quick prayer might help and asks the patron saint of confectioners and pastry chefs for aid. Which Saint is this?

Answer: St. Honoré

The feast day of St. Honoré is celebrated on May 16th. He was the Bishop of Amiens in France, and lived around the turn of the seventh century AD. The St. Honoré Cake is a delicious confection of choux pastry, whipped cream, cream puffs, and caramelised sugar named after him.
2. The only possible weak spot in the walls of the Chocolate Vault, where Bob is trapped, appears to be a tiny crevice where a tree root has made its way through. Being something of an expert, Bob remembers that cocoa beans grow on the Theobroma cacao tree. Which part of the world is the wild Theobroma cacao native to?

Answer: Andes

Theobroma cacao, the wild cocoa tree, is nowadays found only in the Andes. It is related to the marshmallow, as well as okra and kola plants.
The name Theobroma translates from the Greek as "Food of the Gods", although Bob might feel differently if he can't escape from the vault!
3. Bob is well and truly trapped in the Chocolate Vault, and is starting to feel a little queasy from the proximity of so much chocolate. He spends a few minutes in contemplation and thinks that if only he had a couple of pet cocoa weevils, they could help him out by "eating the evidence" and reducing the piles stacked high around the vault. Which of these is the cocoa weevil Bob yearns for?

Answer: Pantorhytes plutus

Pantorhytes plutus, or the cocoa weevil, is a little beetle, usually around a quarter of an inch long. They are black with a bright red carapace, and prey on cocoa crops. They are a particular problem for crops in Papua New Guinea.
Beauveria bassiana is a fungal disease which can kill cocoa weevils, as well as many other creatures viewed as pests on various crops around the world. It is sometimes deliberately introduced to an area, and used as a biological pesticide.
Anthonomus grandis is the boll weevil which attacks cotton crops.
Ophiostoma ulmi is one of several fungi which cause Dutch elm disease.
4. As Bob searches the Chocolate Vault for a means of escape, he is forced to hastily avert his gaze from a large mural depicting a naked lady on horseback, which covers one wall from top to bottom (if you'll pardon the pun). Had he not been busy blushing he might have recognised it as a portrait of Lady Godiva of Coventry, used as the logo of her namesake chocolatier. Founded in the 1920s, in which city was the first Godiva chocolate shop?

Answer: Brussels

The Godiva Chocolatier company was founded by Joseph Draps in 1926. The first shop opened in Brussels, in the city centre, where it stands to this day. Godiva was first sold in the United States in the mid 1960s, shortly before the company was bought by Campbell, the famous soup manufacturer.
5. Trapped in the Chocolate Vault, surrounded by heaps of sweets, Bob can't help wishing there was something savoury to snack on. Nose twitching, he catches a whiff of something that is definitely meaty. The delicious aroma leads him to a large crate labelled Vosges Haut-Chocolat. Which of these flavours does this company NOT use in their chocolate bars?

Answer: Foie gras

The Vosges Haut-Chocolat company was founded in 1988, and makes luxury gourmet chocolates in a startling range of extraordinary flavours.
Their "Red Fire" chocolate contains both Mexican ancho and chipotle chilis, and the "Oaxaca" has both guajillo & pasilla chilies.
Their "Mo's Chocolate and Bacon" bars come in both milk and plain varieties.
The "Naga" bar contains sweet Indian curry leaves and coconut.
6. Bob's plight seems hopeless - will he be trapped in the Chocolate Vault forever? If only there was someone to save him! A vague memory of a cartoon he once saw comes to Bob's mind; if only that supreme martial artist was here now... who was the apt superhero alter ego of Kevin King?

Answer: Chocolate Thunder

Kevin King was a government agent, highly trained in unarmed combat and martial arts techniques. After witnessing an attack on a young girl, he vowed to make the streets of Brick City safer and became Chocolate Thunder.
The Chocolate Thunder character was designed for Ghettosake Comics by Jeremy Love. He first appeared in print in "Code of the Streets" and "Children's Story" in 1999. An animated version of the story was also made by the associated Gettosake Pictures company.
7. Still trapped within the confines of the Chocolate Vault, Bob hears a very faint sound. He presses his ear to the wall - could this be the sound of the vault owners coming to catch him red handed? It sounds like the howling of bloodhounds and it sends a shiver down his spine. He calms himself when he remembers that chocolate is actually poisonous to dogs - what is the chemical constituent of cacao beans that makes them so deadly?

Answer: Theobromine

Theobromine is an alkaloid hydrocarbon, very similar in chemical composition to caffeine. As little as 200mg per kilo of bodyweight can be sufficient to kill a cat, and the lethal dose for dogs is not much greater. Theobromine is also poisonous to humans, but the lethal dose is such that several kilos of very high quality chocolate, with a large cocoa content would need to be eaten for any ill effects to be felt.
Perhaps oddly, given its name, there is no bromine in theobromine; it is named from Theobroma cacao, the wild cocoa plant.
8. In a shadowy corner in the deepest, darkest recess of the Chocolate Vault, Bob stumbles upon a pitiful sight. A skeleton lies there, surrounded by sweetie packaging, the lids of which each have a letter embossed on them. These letters spell out the words "Abandon hope all ye who enter here" and poor Bob shudders in fear. Which company made chocolate "Smarties" sweets, sold in the UK, in tubes with a letter of the alphabet on the inside of the lid?

Answer: Rowntree

The Rowntree's confectioners company was founded in the English city of York in 1862. Today it is owned by the Nestlé corporation. The packaging was changed to a hexagonal tube with an intrinsic cardboard lid in 2005, and some of the rarer letters from the original ones are now considered collectors items. Smarties in the United States are a completely different sweet to the UK ones.

In the UK, smarties are made of a chocolate centre in a crisp candy shell, in a range of colours, similar to plain "m + ms".

The American smarties are a hard crunchy sugar candy, with no chocolate, similar to the sweets sold as "swizzlers" or "refreshers" in the UK.
9. As Bob's quest for an escape route from the Chocolate Vault continues, he stumbles across a pile of bricks in a shadowy corner. Brown, heavy, strangely chocolatey smelling bricks. Whipping off his socks Bob quickly ties one of the bricks to a handy stick, and attacks the wall ferociously. These "chocolate bricks" were developed by the Hershey company, as emergency rations for the US military. How are they sometimes known?

Answer: Logan bar

Chocolate has formed part of the ration packs issued to American soldiers since the 1930s. Some of it is just ordinary chocolate and is the same as a regular bar sold in any shop, but some of it is "military chocolate". Military chocolate forms part of an emergency ration, and is intended to be eaten when there is nothing else available. With this in mind, army bosses asked Hershey to make it taste "better than a boiled potato" but not as nice as ordinary chocolate. The idea was that, if it tasted nice, the soldiers would just eat it as a treat, rather than keeping it until they really needed it. It also needs to withstand high temperatures, as it is kept on the soldiers person, often in tropical climates. Hershey's military chocolate will remain solid up to at least 49 degrees Celsius, and is so hard that anyone with less than perfect teeth must shave it with a knife to eat it as it cannot be bitten.
The chunky, square, bitter tasting, rock solid bars were named Logan Bars after Colonel Paul Logan, the Army Quartermaster who first commissioned their development.
Thanks to the mighty bashing power of an irate Bob armed with a Logan bar mallet, the wall of the Chocolate Vault is breached at last, and freedom is at hand.
10. At last, Bob sees his freedom is within his grasp. Unable to resist a "big moment" before he leaves the Chocolate Vault forever, he declaims these Shakespearean lines: "Last scene of all, That ends this strange eventful history, Is second childishness and mere oblivion, Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything." The play from which they come is set in the Forest of Arden, which historically occupied which of these chocolate related sites?

Answer: Bournville, England

The lines in question are from the famous "All the world's a stage" monologue, from "As You Like It". The setting for the play is thought to be an admixture of the actual Forest of Arden, the ancestral home of Mary Arden, Shakespeare's mother, and the Ardennes Forest in France.
Bournville, near Birmingham, in England, was developed by the Cadbury family to provide a good standard of living for the many workers at their nearby factory, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. One of Cadbury's best loved products is a bar of plain dark chocolate in a distinctive deep red wrapper, named Bournville, although sadly, it is now manufactured elsewhere.
And with that our intrepid hero Bob exits, quiz left, pursued by irate inmates of the Author's Lounge...
Source: Author Rowena8482

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