Show Notes
We have a delicious quiz for you this week, because Hallie has cooked up six trivia questions all about chocolate! We also dig in to discussions about baseball, some very old history, and, of course, chocolate-making!
2:29: Q1 (Times & Places): The oldest evidence of chocolate preparation was from around 1750 BCE, found at an archaeological site from what earliest known Mesoamerican civilization?
7:57: Q2 (Movies & TV): What actress with eight Academy Award nominations and one win, in 1999, was nominated in 2000 for Best Supporting Actress for Chocolat in which she plays the main character’s elderly landlady?
16:02: Q3 (Sports & Games): In 1978, Reggie Jackson aka “Mr. October” had a chocolate bar named after him after winning his first of two consecutive World Series with what team whose record is actually five consecutive World Series titles?
25:56: Q4 (Arts & Literature): In the Chocolate-Covered Contest by Carolyn Keene, what character’s best friend Bess opens a candy bar with a million dollar prize but discovers that someone has already won after which they are accused of counterfeiting the wrapper?
35:10: Q5 (Everything Else): The final process in chocolate production, what is the name for the controlled crystallization of cocoa butter that causes the surface of the chocolate to appear shiny rather than matte and snap rather than crumble when broken?
40:54: Q6 (Music): The film Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory introduced what song, which then became a popular hit after being recorded by Sammy Davis Jr.?
Theme music: "Thinking it Over" by Lee Rosevere, licensed under CC BY 2.0