Sweets and Candy

What this quiz asks

• Marzipan is a sweet paste made mainly from sugar and which ground nut?
• What is Turkish delight called in Turkey?
• Liquorice sweets are flavoured with an extract from which part of the liquorice plant?
• Gummy bears were first created in the United States.
• Rock, the hard stick sweet with letters running all the way through it, is traditionally sold where in Britain?
• Modern chewing gum grew from chicle, the natural gum of which tree?
• William Morrison, who co-invented the electric candy floss machine in 1897, worked in which profession?
• Is gum arabic, used to bind and glaze many sweets, the hardened sap of acacia trees?
• Select ALL of these sweets that are traditionally made with nuts.
• Kendal Mint Cake, a peppermint sugar bar from the English Lake District, went up Everest with the first successful climbers in 1953.
• Salmiak, the salty liquorice loved in Finland and the Netherlands, gets its tang from which compound?
• Konpeitō, tiny star-shaped Japanese sugar sweets, were introduced by traders from which country?
• The first marshmallows were made with sap from the root of the marsh mallow plant. What do most modern recipes use instead?
• Select ALL of these sweets that are made with liquorice.
• Order these sweets by when they were first sold, earliest first.
• In Italy, sugar-coated almonds called confetti are traditionally handed out at which celebrations?
• In what year did Enric Bernat launch Chupa Chups lollipops in Barcelona?
• Mastic, a resin chewed like gum since ancient times, is harvested from trees on which Greek island?
• Thailand's foi thong, golden threads of egg yolk cooked in syrup, descend from which Portuguese sweet?
• Calissons, diamond-shaped sweets of almond paste and candied melon under white icing, are a speciality of which French town?