Bob's Escape From the Chocolate Vault Quiz

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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...