SPARQL queries for Pizza ontology

Answer 1

(2) appears to be a valid query

I don't understand part (3) of your question. (2) cannot be compared to a boolean since it returns a Result Set, if you want a boolean result then you need to use an ASK query. If an ASK query returns true then it means that there are solutions to the query in the data you are querying so it would not be an empty result.