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Can you name the top cocoa bean producing countries? Enter a country in the box below Correctly named countries will show up in the table below Answers do not have to be guessed in order This game was contributed by Sporcle user: Phil Sandifer You have 5 minutes to guess after you click the button below.	Search: Popular trivia games today The Impossible Quiz 16359 States by Capital 12886 Top Food Chains (US) 12061 Best Actress Nominations (90s) 8635 1-100 4787 NFL Rushing TDs (2000s) 4630 And more...
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Tonnes per year	Country
1,300,000
690,000
620,000
500,000
221,699
179,239
87,600
70,000
50,300
39,000

Tonnes per year	Country
37,000
32,000
31,000
30,000
17,500
15,000
12,000
11,000
6,200
5,900

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	nearlyextinct:	Feb 8th, 2009 at 08:48 GMT	21 points
	This quiz is countries that produce coco beans not manufacture chocolate.

	Fixial:	Feb 8th, 2009 at 08:48 GMT	-1 points
	Amazing how the second best substance on the planet comes from such strange places..

	springmom:	Feb 8th, 2009 at 08:51 GMT	6 points
	LOL! I was thinking countries that produce the finished chocolate candies, truffles, etc, at first, not the places that grow the beans......but still, got 19/20 by typing in countries in tropical areas.

	HoosierDaddy:	Feb 8th, 2009 at 09:13 GMT	4 points
	I feel like there was too much time, I only KNEW a few, but was able to guess all of them (and a lot of wrong ones) with over a minute left.

	kinskey:	Feb 8th, 2009 at 09:19 GMT	1 point
	This is the most ridiculous (ok...frustrating) quiz in a long time. It's taken me months to memorize all 195 countries and I still get 9/20 on this????

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	carolina:	Feb 8th, 2009 at 09:56 GMT	41 points
	I've never met an American who spells the country of Colombia with a "u."

	swellwrench:	Feb 8th, 2009 at 11:00 GMT	27 points
	Yeah even in America that spelling is just incorrect

	Evan:	Feb 8th, 2009 at 11:00 GMT	18 points
	Americans usually spell the city of Columbia as so, but not the country Colombia.

	chillicothe20:	Feb 8th, 2009 at 11:28 GMT	8 points
	@ fixial: dare I ask what you consider the top substance on the planet?

	Fongolia:	Feb 8th, 2009 at 11:38 GMT	9 points
	18/20 but I couldn't believe all the random countries I was listing without getting the number 1 country, which was basically double the production of the country in 2nd. When I saw the answer, I was shocked that nearly 40% of the world's cocoa beans come from there!

	debbiedoesnothin:	Feb 8th, 2009 at 11:54 GMT	7 points
	I was surprised by which ones were on top 2. I thought the top producers were all in Latin America.

	IHateRegistering:	Feb 8th, 2009 at 12:31 GMT	18 points
	I think this quiz should drop the word chocolate altogether. Very misleading from the main page. Its kind of like saying: Who produces the most cheese?- by that we mean which countries have the highest milk production. If all of the quizzes were named like that it would soon become ridiculous.

	OscilatingGibbon:	Feb 8th, 2009 at 12:34 GMT	8 points
	A good 75% of the cocoa is grown in West Africa...interesting. Good quiz!

	Bethannie:	Feb 8th, 2009 at 13:19 GMT	8 points
	Look at the countries producing chocolate/cocoa.....consider the price the farmers are paid for their beans....and how much you pay for your chocolate bar....how about buying FairTraid chocolate? Good, thought-provoking quiz.

Tonnes per year	Country
37,000
32,000
31,000
30,000
17,500
15,000
12,000
11,000
6,200
5,900

	davebesag:	Feb 8th, 2009 at 13:57 GMT	1 point
	Only missed Ghana and the Dominican Republic.

	Statto:	Feb 8th, 2009 at 14:11 GMT	4 points
	A chocolate producer's quiz would be interesting. I suspect that while Belgium & Switzerland are famous for their quality chocolate countries like the USA probably produce more annually (unless it's all made in Mexico!).

	peanut4:	Feb 8th, 2009 at 14:40 GMT	4 points
	It's almost a carbon copy of countries producing most coffee.

	starsaphire:	Feb 8th, 2009 at 15:04 GMT	12 points
	Technically, these are the world's largest producers of cacao not chocolate or cocoa. Cocoa is an end product of cacao. Sorry for being pedantic!

	DirtyKash:	Feb 8th, 2009 at 15:07 GMT	1 point
	@Fixial: second best substance? Then what would be the best? Please don't say cannabis.

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	darko:	Feb 8th, 2009 at 16:10 GMT	1 point
	19/20, missed #1 (ivory coast) :)

	Mongoose:	Feb 8th, 2009 at 16:26 GMT	6 points
	Probably the first Sporcle geography quiz I've tried where I couldn't guess No. 1

	newenglander:	Feb 8th, 2009 at 17:03 GMT	4 points
	Switzerland makes a lot of chocolate, Speedbird007. This quiz is a quiz on the actual cocoa producers, and their mainly in the tropics. Then they ship the cocoa to switzerland, where all of the sugar is added and the actual chocolate is produced.

	Etheridge2:	Feb 8th, 2009 at 17:11 GMT	-3 points
	wow couldn't come up with half of them and missed #1..I was of course thinking switzerland, belgium, etc. and other places known for their chocolate and not the beans, that might make a good quiz..this one was educational though

	shel99:	Feb 8th, 2009 at 17:16 GMT	2 points
	I'm another one who thought it was chocolate manufacturing at first... I thought something wasn't working right when I typed in Switzerland and United States and Belgium and none of them worked! Then I tried Brazil and I got it. Got 15/20 by just guessing tropical countries, but I missed number 1. Interesting quiz!

	Kicking222:	Feb 8th, 2009 at 17:19 GMT	11 points
	I'm completely with I_Hate_Registering (great name, too). I don't object to the quiz at all, but on the front page, when it says "chocolate" and the picture is of processed chocolates, you definitely get the wrong idea of what the quiz is going to be.

	Bretzky:	Feb 8th, 2009 at 18:06 GMT	3 points
	Statto: If I'm not mistaken, most American chocolates and candies made outside of the US are produced in Canada. If memory serves me, sugar is a lot cheaper in Canada than it is in either the US or Mexico because Canada doesn't have a domestic sugar industry that it tries to protect from foreign competition, so they have very few, if any, import restrictions on sugar.

	tcalleen:	Feb 8th, 2009 at 19:44 GMT	4 points
	@starsaphire: I don't think that's pedantic but precise! It really should be top cacao-producing countries - it would be more understandable. @smartart11: I object to the generalization that Americans can't spell correctly!

	Distiller:	Feb 8th, 2009 at 20:10 GMT	1 point
	16/20, only got Brazil in the first 2 minutes.

	davidr:	Feb 8th, 2009 at 20:38 GMT	1 point
	@Statto: Given that the USA is a big country full of rich people (by global standards) and the world's largest two makers of chocolate products (Hershey and Mars) are both American, I'm sure the USA makes much more chocolate than anyone else. For what it's worth, Switzerland makes about 180,000 tonnes a year.

	Uhlan:	Feb 8th, 2009 at 21:05 GMT	5 points
	Maybe the Ivory Coast should change it's name to the Cocoa Coast?

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	zalagreensbury:	Feb 8th, 2009 at 21:27 GMT	3 points
	...I'm a vanilla person blush

	Krazy Moody:	Feb 9th, 2009 at 04:19 GMT	3 points
	-70 points for smartart11... ha ha!

	Fixial:	Feb 9th, 2009 at 06:18 GMT	2 points
	Cannabis.. What's that?... Oh I forgot sarcasm ends up earning you like -1,000,000 points on here.. The number one substance on earth is that little bit of peanut butter stuck to the bottom of the seal on a new jar.

	Catherine_F:	Feb 9th, 2009 at 16:23 GMT	4 points
	Speedbird007, even if this quiz was about chocolate manufacture, not cocoa bean exports, there would still be plenty of countries who make SOME chocolate who would not make the top 20, it doesn't mean everyone else makes "none whatsoever."