Q 01/05

Alton Brown wore a different one of which accessory for every season of Good Eats to help date clips?

A) A bow tie

B) A wristwatch

C) A pair of glasses

D) A belt buckle

Answer · why

B) A wristwatch

A wristwatch from Alton Brown's vintage collection marked each season, so the crew could tell at a glance when a clip was shot. When one broke midseas...

Q 02/05

Alton Brown, a sworn enemy of single-use gadgets, long called which item the only unitasker allowed in his kitchen?

A) A fire extinguisher

B) A kitchen thermometer

C) A garlic press

D) An oven timer

Answer · why

A) A fire extinguisher

A fire extinguisher was the lone exception to Alton Brown's rule, until his tenth-anniversary live show used one in a demonstration to prove that even...

Q 03/05

Before his cooking career, Alton Brown was director of photography on the video for The One I Love by which band?

A) The Cure

B) The B-52's

C) R.E.M.

D) The Smiths

Answer · why

C) R.E.M.

R.E.M. released the song on the 1987 album Document, and artist Robert Longo directed the clip while Alton Brown ran the camera.

Q 04/05

Alton Brown said Good Eats was inspired by combining Mr. Wizard, Monty Python and which famous television cook?

A) Graham Kerr

B) Martha Stewart

C) Jacques Pépin

D) Julia Child

Answer · why

D) Julia Child

Julia Child rounded out the trio, which Alton Brown named in the show's tenth-anniversary episode. Viewers have also likened him to Bill Nye.

Q 05/05

Alton Brown voiced television host Nicholas Withers in an episode called House Fancy of which animated series?

A) The Fairly OddParents

B) Phineas and Ferb

C) SpongeBob SquarePants

D) Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius

Answer · why

C) SpongeBob SquarePants

SpongeBob SquarePants cast Alton Brown as the presenter of the fictional program House Fancy, the show-within-a-show that gives the episode its title.