Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest Champions Quiz

Answer: Joey Chestnut

Chestnut is the one who stole the crown from Kobayashi in 2007, and went on to become one of the best known eaters in the world. He won eight consecutive titles, missed a year and then won four more in a row to become the first ever 12x champion of the event.

Answer: Matt Stonie

Stonie ate 62 hot dogs to Chestnut's 60 to snap an eight-year winning streak. He was unable to defend his title though and became a one-year wonder in the contest. The following year he finished runner up with 53, to champion Chestnut's 70.

Answer: Takeru Kobayashi

Kobayashi became an international legend, and turned competitive eating into a more mainstream sport in the US by winning six consecutive titles. He doubled up the world record in his first contest, eating 50 hot dogs in 12 minutes.

Answer: Kazutoyo Arai

Arai made it three titles in four years for Japan when he won his only title in 2000. He ate a then-record 25 hot dogs in 12 minutes.

Answer: Steve Keiner

Keiner returned the championship to the US after two years of Japan winning. He ate 21.5 hot dogs officially. Years later in replays it was shown that he ate the first half hot dog before the starting gun and technically should have been disqualified, but it wasn't caught at the time and his title stands.

Answer: Hirofumi Nakajima

After beating Krachie head to head the year before (in an international contest, not the Nathan's contest), Hirofumi Nakajima entered the Nathan's contest and won two years in a row. He ate 24.5 and 19 hot dogs in his respective wins.

Answer: Ed Krachie

Krachie, a 350-pound engineer from New York, won his first title with 19.5 hot dogs and buns eaten in 12 minutes.

A year later he won again with 22 hot dogs eaten.

In the second match-up between US and Japanese champions later in 1996 (held separately from the official contest), he lost to Hirofumi Nakajima head to head.

Answer: Mike DeVito

DeVito was the second three-time champion, and the first to not win them consecutively. In 1993, the two-time reigning champion cancelled at the last minute, allowing former champ DeVito to return to the top.

In 1993 he also won an international challenge with a Japanese competitor that was open only to the champion from each country. That challenge was held later in the year.

Answer: Frankie Dellarosa

Dellarosa ate 21 and 19 hotdogs in 12 minutes competitions to win both of his titles. He was a part-time Hoffstra University football coach at the time of his championships.

Dellarosa declined to compete in 1993, instead turning to an acting career.

Answer: Jay Green

The 1990 contest was a tie with no tie-breaking criteria. Green and Mike DeVito shared the title. Both would end up being three-time champions.

The rules stated, prior to that year, that someone could only win twice before being "retired". The rule change allowed Green to be the first ever three time winner.