Q 01/05

Buddy Valastro's right hand was impaled in 2020 while he repaired equipment at home for which sport?

A) Golf

B) Baseball

C) Bowling

D) Tennis

Answer · why

C) Bowling

Bowling did the damage: a jammed pinsetter in his home alley drove a metal rod through his hand three times, and his sons cut him free with a saw.

Q 02/05

Which New Jersey birthplace of Frank Sinatra is home to Buddy Valastro's Carlo's Bakery?

A) Hoboken

B) Newark

C) Paterson

D) Trenton

Answer · why

A) Hoboken

Hoboken felt the Cake Boss effect quickly: lines to get into the shop often stretched down the block and around the corner.

Q 03/05

Buddy Valastro began running Carlo's Bakery at just 17 after which family event in 1994?

A) His parents' divorce

B) His father's death

C) His mother's illness

D) His father's retirement

Answer · why

B) His father's death

His father's death left the shop to a teenager who had been working beside him since the age of 11.

Q 04/05

Which star of Ace of Cakes battled Buddy Valastro in a 2019 Food Network competition series?

A) Ron Ben-Israel

B) Adriano Zumbo

C) Zac Young

D) Duff Goldman

Answer · why

D) Duff Goldman

Duff Goldman won the first season and Buddy took the rematch a year later, in a showdown between the stars of two rival cable cake shows.

Q 05/05

Buddy Valastro rushed a life-size cake of which Golden Girls star to her Friars Club roast?

A) Bea Arthur

B) Betty White

C) Rue McClanahan

D) Estelle Getty

Answer · why

B) Betty White

Betty White's cake would normally have taken four days to build, so the Carlo's crew had no room for error on the overnight job.