Q 01/05

The Great British Bake Off is renamed Baking Show in America because which company owns the Bake-Off trademark?

A) Duncan Hines

B) Pillsbury

C) Betty Crocker

D) King Arthur

Answer · why

B) Pillsbury

Pillsbury first ran its own Bake-Off recipe contest in 1949 at New York's Waldorf-Astoria, so the British series airs in the US and Canada as The Grea...

Q 02/05

Which host of 30 Minute Meals is credited with coining EVOO, an abbreviation later added to an Oxford dictionary?

A) Rachael Ray

B) Giada De Laurentiis

C) Paula Deen

D) Sandra Lee

Answer · why

A) Rachael Ray

Rachael Ray used EVOO as her shorthand for extra-virgin olive oil so often that the Oxford American College Dictionary added the term in 2007 and cred...

Q 03/05

Which American chef offended Masaharu Morimoto by standing on his cutting board after an Iron Chef battle in New York?

A) Mario Batali

B) Wolfgang Puck

C) Bobby Flay

D) Michael Symon

Answer · why

C) Bobby Flay

Bobby Flay climbed onto his board and raised his arms when the hour ended; Morimoto, who holds knives and boards sacred, took offence and said Flay wa...

Q 04/05

Which Barefoot Contessa host wrote nuclear energy budget papers at the White House before buying a specialty food shop?

A) Martha Stewart

B) Nigella Lawson

C) Sara Moulton

D) Ina Garten

Answer · why

D) Ina Garten

Ina Garten quit her government job in 1978 after spotting an ad for a tiny Long Island food store called the Barefoot Contessa, and kept the name for ...

Q 05/05

Which rapper joined Martha Stewart to host a VH1 dinner-party cooking show after the two bonded at a celebrity roast?

A) Ice-T

B) Snoop Dogg

C) LL Cool J

D) Flavor Flav

Answer · why

B) Snoop Dogg

Snoop Dogg sat next to Stewart through the seven-hour taping of Justin Bieber's 2015 roast, and the pair got on so well that VH1 gave them a potluck s...