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Cooking Shows and TV Chefs

From Julia Child's French kitchen to the Bake Off tent and Japan's Kitchen Stadium: how well do you know the chefs who cooked their way onto TV?

📺 TV medium 20 questions ~7 min
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What this quiz asks

  • Which American cook presented The French Chef on public television?
  • What did the title of Jamie Oliver's 1999 BBC series The Naked Chef refer to?
  • The Great British Bake Off left the BBC in 2017 and moved to which channel?
  • Where do the bakers of The Great British Bake Off famously do their baking?
  • Julia Child worked for the OSS, the American wartime intelligence agency, during the Second World War.
  • Who presented MasterChef when it first launched on the BBC in 1990?
  • How did the BBC's Two Fat Ladies, Jennifer Paterson and Clarissa Dickson Wright, travel to each location?
  • In which 2004 Channel 4 series did Gordon Ramsay try to rescue failing restaurants?
  • Was Anthony Bourdain a professional chef before he became a TV presenter?
  • Which Anthony Bourdain series began on CNN in 2013?
  • Select ALL the rounds that make up a standard episode of The Great British Bake Off.
  • How many bakers competed in the very first series of The Great British Bake Off?
  • On which Japanese TV network did the original Iron Chef air?
  • In the 1990s, Delia Smith and her husband became joint majority shareholders of which English football club?
  • In the BBC's Ready Steady Cook, which began in 1994, guests brought a bag of ingredients costing up to how much?
  • Gordon Ramsay trained under which chef, the youngest ever to win three Michelin stars at the time?
  • The flamboyant chairman who presided over the original Iron Chef was played by a professional actor.
  • Select ALL the cuisines that had their own Iron Chef in the original Japanese series.
  • Put these cooking shows in order of first broadcast, earliest first.
  • Jamie Oliver was spotted by TV producers while working at which London restaurant?