VFK National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day Mini-Quest 2012

May 15, 2012
 May 16, 2012	
==Description==
Today is National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day! Chocolate chip cookies are one of the most delicious types of cookies ever made! With so many different recipes to make, you can enjoy many variations and have difficulty choosing a favorite. With the chocolate chip cookie having its own special day, you will need to run in to the kitchen and bake up a batch in honor of the day, or buy your favorite version at your local baker or store, but before you do, let's look at the story of the delicious Chocolate Chip Cookie!<BR><BR>
 
Your reward for completing this quest will be 1,000 credits, and a Cream Filled Cookie Hat!<BR><BR><BR>
===Prizes===
===Questions===
1. The chocolate chip cookie got its start by accident. It all began at Ruth Wakefield's Toll House Inn in Whitman Massachusetts in 1937. It was evening and Ruth was making Butter Drop Do cookies for her guests. Her heirloom recipe called for baker's chocolate, however she substituted a bar of semi-sweet chocolate given to her by a friend. The chocolate didn't melt as Ruth intended, but stayed in neat little chunks in the cookies which were an instant hit with her guests. What was the last name of the friend that gave her the chocolate bar?
* Ghirardelli
* Hershey
* Nestle
* Cadbury<BR><BR>
2. Mrs. Wakefield's Toll House restaurant was once a real toll house built in 1709 where the toll for the highway between Boston and New Bedford was collected. The stage coach passengers would stop for a meal and to change horses. Go to the Victorian House in Victorian Age and say: "Cookies are great!"<BR><BR>
3. Ruth published the recipe for her chocolate chip cookies in several newspapers and the recipe became very popular. Nestle, in exchange for publishing Ruth's chocolate chip cookie recipe on their chocolate bar wrapper, gave Ruth a lifetime supply of free chocolate. What promotional item did Nestle enclose in their chocolate bar package to encourage people to make Ruth's cookies?
* A picture of Ruth
* A small chopper
* A small package of chocolate chips
* A small measuring spoon charm<BR><BR>
4. In 1939, Nestle come out with the chocolate chips that we know today. The Toll House Trademark was lost in 1983 due to some loopholes in the original agreement between Ruth Wakefield and Nestle, however the name of Toll House is still associated with chocolate chip cookies. Go to Outside the Mercantile in Western Age and say: "Happy National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day!"<BR><BR>
===Answers===
1. Nestle
2. Go to the Victorian House in Victorian Age and say: "Cookies are great!"
3. A small chopper
4. Go to Outside the Western Mercantile and say: "Happy National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day!"
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