Q 01/05

Wolfgang Puck was fired from his first kitchen job, aged 14, after it ran out of which vegetable?

A) Onions

B) Carrots

C) Potatoes

D) Cabbages

Answer · why

C) Potatoes

Potatoes were the teenage apprentice's main job, so the Sunday shortage landed on him. He sneaked back the next day and peeled in the vegetable cellar...

Q 02/05

Which late-night host's habit of freezing Spago pizzas pushed Wolfgang Puck into the frozen pizza business?

A) David Letterman

B) Johnny Carson

C) Jay Leno

D) Dick Cavett

Answer · why

B) Johnny Carson

Johnny Carson took home eight or ten pizzas on Friday nights and reheated them from his freezer. Puck reasoned that if Carson could eat them frozen, o...

Q 03/05

Which pop artist wanted to paint Wolfgang Puck's portrait, only for the chef to ask for a menu cover instead?

A) Roy Lichtenstein

B) Keith Haring

C) Jasper Johns

D) Andy Warhol

Answer · why

D) Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol did go on to make a menu cover, one of several by famous artists for Ma Maison, the Los Angeles restaurant where Puck was chef. David Hock...

Q 04/05

Wolfgang Puck and Reese Witherspoon guest-starred in the same 2002 episode of which animated sitcom?

A) The Simpsons

B) Family Guy

C) King of the Hill

D) Futurama

Answer · why

A) The Simpsons

The Simpsons had Puck voice himself in The Bart Wants What It Wants, while Witherspoon played Greta, daughter of the action star Rainier Wolfcastle.

Q 05/05

Before the name Spago, Wolfgang Puck planned to call his pizza restaurant after which Italian volcano?

A) Mount Etna

B) Mount Stromboli

C) Mount Vesuvius

D) Campi Flegrei

Answer · why

C) Mount Vesuvius

Mount Vesuvius, as Mt. Vesuvio, was to be a pizza parlour co-owned with his boss Patrick Terrail. The plan died in a fight over a single percent of th...