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Cooking Shows Trivia Quiz
Pack Your Knives MasterChef, Bake Off, Gordon Ramsay's kitchens, Top Chef, Nailed It and more. Hands up, utensils down.
101 questions · 2 to 12 players, or solo · Typed answers, close enough counts
About this quiz
This Cooking Shows Trivia Quiz has 101 questions: 36 easy, 40 medium and 25 hard. It is free. Play it with friends in a room for 2 to 12 players, on phones or in a browser, or play it solo. Type your answers: close enough counts, so a small typo still scores.
Sample questions
20 of the 101 Cooking Shows questions in this pack. Think of your answer, then open it.
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Prue Leith's famous Bake Off rule: a rich, indulgent bake is fine as long as it's worth the what?
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Calories
She later said she quietly dropped the line because some viewers thought it was fat-shaming.
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After each Hell's Kitchen exit, Ramsay hangs the chef's jacket on a hook in his office. What happens to their picture above it?
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It burns
In season 1 he only hung the jackets; the burning portraits began in season 2 and leave just the show's logo.
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In Bake Off's 2026 opener, every baker followed the same bare recipe for a teatime classic: a cake of coffee and which nut?
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Walnut
Critics loved her debut, praising the 'glamour' and 'intelligence' she brought to the tent.
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For its first 18 seasons, Hell's Kitchen opened to which one-word 1974 funk hit by the Ohio Players?
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Fire
Streaming rights were costly, so later seasons and some streaming versions swapped it for a different instrumental.
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In a 2016 Parts Unknown, Anthony Bourdain shared a $6 bun cha dinner on plastic stools in Hanoi with which US president?
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Barack Obama
The restaurant later sealed their table, stools and beer bottles in a glass case; Bourdain said he wasn't sure how he felt.
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Nailed It! grew out of a mid-2010s internet trend of snaps of failed home bakes. Which picture site were those 'fails' named after?
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Pinterest
People posted the perfect cake beside their sad copy with the caption 'Nailed it!', and Netflix made a show of it.
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The 2026 MasterChef Australia grand final opened with the classic round where cooks lift a lid on surprise ingredients. What is it called?
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Mystery box
Every dish must use what's inside; in 2026 it was followed by a five-hour pressure test to decide the title.
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Chopped host Ted Allen first found fame as the wine-and-dining expert on which makeover show's original Fab Five?
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Queer Eye
He has hosted Chopped since it began in 2009, and he isn't allowed to sit down during filming.
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In Culinary Class Wars' first spoon-vs-spoon round, how were the two judges stopped from seeing whose dish they tasted?
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Blindfolds
They were hand-fed by spoon and took the blindfolds off only once their verdict was unanimous.
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In 2023, which Ramsay show about failing restaurants returned to Fox after nine years off air?
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Kitchen Nightmares
It first ran in the US from 2007 to 2014; the revival opened in New York-area restaurants.
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In 2021, the TV cook who later replaced Prue Leith on Bake Off got a BAFTA nomination just for how she said which kitchen appliance?
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Microwave
Her 'mee-cro-wah-vay' on Cook, Eat, Repeat was up for the public-voted Must-See Moment award.
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Stuck at home in Cornwall in 2020, Gordon Ramsay raced the clock on Instagram Live to cook each meal in how many minutes or less?
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10
The lockdown videos became a 2021 cookbook named after the time limit: Ramsay in 10.
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Which MasterChef US finalist quietly left Harvard mid-semester to film the show in 2019, then became one of the biggest food YouTubers?
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Nick DiGiovanni
He later set a Guinness record with Gordon Ramsay for the world's largest beef Wellington.
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In Hell's Kitchen's finale, the last two chefs grab the handles of what at the same moment, knowing only the winner's will open?
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A door
The winner walks out onto the balcony to a cheering crowd, with $250,000 and a head chef job.
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Gordon Ramsay road-tripped across Europe on ITV with Italian chef Gino D'Acampo and which famous French maître d'?
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Fred Sirieix
Their first stop was Gino's Italy, cooking a beach wedding feast, then France and Scotland, with later trips to the US and Greece.
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Which comedian hosts Netflix's Nailed It!, where hopeless home bakers try to copy fancy cakes, even though she doesn't bake herself?
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Nicole Byer
She jokes it's 'three people who don't know how to bake competing to kill me'; the winner gets $10,000.
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On Is It Cake?, a baker wins the round only if the celebrity judges do what?
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Guess wrong
Each fool earns $5,000, and the last three winners fight for a $50,000 prize in the finale.
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Which royal visited the MasterChef Australia kitchen in 2026 to talk seasonal produce, and took a FaceTime call from her husband on air?
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Meghan
Her episode drew 1.6 million views, and she's set to return as a guest on Junior MasterChef Australia in 2027.
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On MasterChef Australia, which small item lets a cook tap out of any challenge, even an elimination?
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Immunity pin
In 2023 Loki Madireddi became the first cook to go home still holding one, choosing to cook for his team.
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In MasterChef US auditions, home cooks fight to win which item that shows they've made it onto the show?
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A white apron
In 2012, judges handed out 36 of them after tasting 100 dishes, then cut that to 18 in the same episode.
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Questions about this quiz
How many questions are in the Cooking Shows Trivia Quiz?
101. Each game plays a round of them, so you can come back for more.
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