Bobby Flay Trivia Quiz Questions With Answers

Trivia quiz questions about Bobby Flay

Bobby Flay Trivia Quiz Questions With Answers

Who is Bobby Flay?
A: Bobby Flay is an American celebrity chef, restaurateur, and reality television personality.

What is his birth name?
A: Robert William Flay.

When was he born?
A: He was born on December 10, 1964.

Who were his parents?
A: Bill and Dorothy Flay.

He is a fourth generation what?
A: Irish American.

What is his religion?
A: Catholic.

Where was Bobby raised?
A: He was raised on the Upper East Side neighborhood of Manhattan.

Flay has hosted several Food Network what?
A: Television programs.

Flay is featured on what TV series?
A: Great Chefs television series.

What did Bobby want for Christmas when he was 8 years old?
A: An Easy-Bake Oven.

What did his father think he should get for Christmas?
A: A G.I. Joe which he thought would be more gender-appropriate.

What did Bobby get?
A: Both toys.

Flay dropped out of high school at what age?
A: 17.

He has said his first jobs in the restaurant industry were at what?
A: A pizza parlor and Baskin-Robbins.

Where did he then take a position making salads?
A: At Joe Allen Restaurant in Manhattan's Theater District, where his father was a partner.

The proprietor, Joe Allen, was impressed by Flay's what?
A: Natural ability and agreed to pay his partner's son's tuition at the French Culinary Institute.

Flay received a degree in culinary arts and was a member of the first what?
A: Graduating class of the French Culinary Institute in 1984.

After culinary school, he started working as a what?
A: A sous-chef, quickly learning the culinary arts.

At the Brighton Grill on Third Avenue, Flay was handed what?
A: The executive chef's position after a week when the executive chef was fired.

Flay quit when he realized what?
A: That he was not ready to run a kitchen.

He took a position as a chef working for whom?
A: Restaurateur Jonathan Waxman at Bud and Jams.

Waxman introduced Flay to what kind of cuisine?
A: Southwestern and Cajun cuisine, which came to define his culinary career.

After working for a short time on the floor at the American Stock Exchange, Flay returned to the kitchen as what?
A: The executive chef at Miracle Grill in the East Village, where he worked from 1988 to 1990.

He caught the attention of whom?
A: Restaurateur Jerome Kretchmer, who was looking for a southwestern-style chef.

Impressed by Flay's food, Kretchmer offered him what position?
A: The position of executive chef at Mesa Grill, which opened on January 15, 1991.

Shortly after, he became what?
A: A partner.

In November 1993, Flay partnered with Laurence Kretchmer to open what?
A: Bolo Bar & Restaurant in the Flatiron District, just a few blocks away from Mesa Grill.

Flay opened a second Mesa Grill at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas in what year?
A: 2004.

What did he open in 2005?
A: He opened Bar American, an American Brasserie, in Midtown Manhattan.

He continued to expand his restaurants by opening Bobby Flay Steak where?
A: In the Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa in Atlantic City, New Jersey.

This was followed by a third “what”, in the Bahamas?
A: Mesa Grill.

The Las Vegas Mesa Grill earned Flay his only what?
A: His only Michelin Star in 2008, which was taken away in the 2009 edition.

Michelin did not publish a 2010 or 2011 Las Vegas edition, so the star could not what?
A: Be re-earned.

Bolo Bar & Restaurant closed its doors on December 31, 2007, to make way for a what?
A: A condominium.

Aside from his restaurants and television shows, where has Flay been a master instructor and visiting chef?
A: At the French Culinary Institute.

What scholarship did Flay established in 2003?
A: The Bobby Flay Scholarship.

This full scholarship to the French Culinary Institute is awarded annually to a student in what program?
A: The Long Island City Culinary Arts Program.

Flay personally does what each year?
A: He helps select the awardee each year.

When did Flay open Bobby's Burger Palace (BBP) in Lake Grove, Long Island?
A: On July 15, 2008.

Where is the restaurant located?
A: At the Smith Haven Mall.

Where did a second location open on December 5, 2008?
A: At the Monmouth Mall in Eatontown, New Jersey.

Where did a third location open in March 31, 2009?
A: In the Outlets at Bergen Town Center in Paramus, New Jersey.

His fourth shop opened at the Mohegan Sun Casino in southeast Connecticut on what date?
A: July 1, 2009.

It’s also the location of his second Bar Americain, which opened on what date?
A: November 18, 2009.

On April 6, 2010, where did he open his fifth location of the burger chain?
A: In Philadelphia's University City.

The sixth location of Bobby's Burger Palace opened in Washington, D.C., at what address?
A: 2121 K Street in Northwest on August 16, 2011.

On December 5, 2011, Flay opened the ninth location of what?
A: Bobby's Burger Palace in Roosevelt Field Mall in Garden City, New York.

Where did Flay open the tenth and largest Bobby's Burger Palace site?
A: At Maryland Live! Casino in Hanover, Maryland, on June 7, 2012.

Where is Bobby's Burger Palace’s 11th location?
A: In College Park, Maryland.

In total, BBP has how many locations in eleven states and the District of Columbia?
A: Nineteen.

The original Mesa Grill in New York closed in September 2013 following what?
A: A proposed rent increase by the landlord.

Flay has hosted how many cooking shows and specials on Food Network and Cooking Channel, of which eight continue to run?
A: Fourteen.

Where has Flay served as a judge?
A: On Wickedly Perfect, The Next Food Network Star, and The Next Iron Chef.

On Throwdown! with Bobby Flay, the chef challenges cooks renowned for a what?
A: A specific dish or type of cooking to a cook-off of their signature dish.

On Episode 5 of Season 4, Harlem chef Melba Wilson and Bobby squared off over who had the best what?
A: Chicken and eggnog waffles.

On the show Iron Chef America, Flay is a what?
A: An Iron Chef.

In 2000, when the original Iron Chef show traveled to New York for a special battle who did he challenge?
A: He challenged Iron Chef Masaharu Morimoto to battle rock crab.

After the hour battle ended, Flay stood on top of his cutting board and raised his arms in what one journalist wrote was what?
A: A premature victory.

Who won?
A: Morimoto.

Where did Flay challenge Morimoto to a rematch?
A: In Morimoto's native Japan.

Who won this time?
A: Bobby Flay.

On a special episode of Iron Chef America originally airing on November 12, 2006, Flay and Giada De Laurentiis faced off against, and were defeated by whom?
A: Batali and Rachael Ray.

Flay and Michael Symon defeated the team of Iron Chefs Cat Cora and Masaharu Morimoto in a special episode titled what?
A: "Thanksgiving Showdown," which originally aired on November 16, 2008.

On November 29, 2009, which Iron Chefs faced off on a one-on-one in Battle Egg Nog?
A: Morimoto and Flay.

The battle, which featured ice-carvers, was won by whom by a single point?
A: Morimoto.

In an episode recorded in July 2010 and broadcast in March 2011, Montreal cooking show host Chuck Hughes beat Flay to become what?
A: The youngest Canadian champ.

What half-hour series pits select chefs against host Flay to see if they can create dishes that are better than his?
A: Beat Bobby Flay.

In 1996, what show did Flay host?
A: The Main Ingredient with Bobby Flay on Lifetime Television.

Twice a month, he hosts a cooking segment on what CBS' show?
A: The Early Show.

Flay had a cameo appearance in what Disney Channel original movie?
A: Eddie's Million Dollar Cook-Off as the host of the cook-off.

He appeared on what television game show?
A: Pyramid with fellow Iron Chef Mario Batali as the guest celebrities in an episode originally airing on November 18, 2003.

He appeared as a judge on what CBS television show during the 2004–05 season?
A: "Wickedly Perfect".

He also appeared in what episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit?
A: Episode "Design", which originally aired on September 22, 2005.

He had a small role as himself in what 2006 film?
A: East Broadway, in which his wife, Stephanie March, had a larger role.