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Q 01Who is the creator of the animated television series SpongeBob SquarePants?
Stephen Hillenburg
Stephen Hillenburg, a marine biologist and animator, created SpongeBob SquarePants. He initially conceived the show in 1994 and it first aired as a sneak peek in 1999.
Q 02What is the name of SpongeBob's pet snail?
Gary
Gary, voiced, in a manner of speaking, by Tom Kenny, who also voices SpongeBob himself. Of the two housemates, Gary is generally the smarter.
Q 03At what fast-food restaurant does SpongeBob SquarePants work?
The Krusty Krab
SpongeBob works as a fry cook at the Krusty Krab, a popular fast-food restaurant in Bikini Bottom owned by Mr. Krabs.
Q 04Which instrument does Squidward Tentacles play, badly?
Clarinet
Clarinet, which he believes he plays beautifully. He also paints self-portraits in assorted styles and hangs them around the house, and the neighbours rate those about as highly.
Q 05Which actress provides the voice of Karen, Plankton's computer wife?
Jill Talley
Jill Talley, a Chicago native, gives Karen her flat Midwestern delivery; Talley was a regular cast member of HBO's sketch series Mr. Show with Bob and David.
Q 06What is the name of the underwater city where SpongeBob SquarePants lives?
Bikini Bottom
Bikini Bottom, named for Bikini Atoll, the Pacific site of US nuclear tests in the 1940s and 1950s. A fan theory blames the bombs for the talking sea life; the show never has.
Q 07What happens to Mrs. Puff, SpongeBob's boating teacher, when she is scared or injured?
She inflates into a ball
She inflates into a ball: Mrs. Puff is a pufferfish, so she puffs up into a spiny sphere whenever SpongeBob crashes a boat during one of her lessons.
Q 08What is Mr. Krabs' first name?
Eugene
Mr. Krabs' full name is Eugene Harold Krabs. He is the greedy owner of the Krusty Krab restaurant.
Q 09What is the name of Plankton's failing restaurant, directly across the street from the Krusty Krab?
The Chum Bucket
The Chum Bucket, whose name is its problem: chum is bait, and nobody wants to eat it. Plankton's fix is theft rather than better cooking.
Q 10Which U.S. state is Sandy Cheeks originally from?
Texas
Sandy Cheeks, SpongeBob's squirrel friend, is a scientist and martial arts expert who proudly hails from Texas.
Q 11What type of animal is Patrick Star?
Starfish
Starfish, a pink one, voiced by Bill Fagerbakke, who played Dauber on the sitcom Coach. Patrick's dimness is a running joke; a real starfish has no brain at all.
Q 12Which actor, also a writer on the show, voices the villainous Plankton?
Doug Lawrence
Doug Lawrence, credited as Mr. Lawrence, voices Plankton and has been a writer and storyboard director on the show since its first season; he also voices Larry the Lobster.
Q 13What is Mr. Krabs' primary obsession?
Money
Money, which he hoards so miserly that he will go to any length to earn it and none to spend it, though he will spend on his daughter. He pays SpongeBob almost nothing.
Q 21What is the name of Bikini Bottom's beach, where the locals sunbathe and surf?
Goo Lagoon
Goo Lagoon is Bikini Bottom's beach, a lagoon of goo with a boardwalk where Larry the Lobster works as lifeguard and where SpongeBob splits his trousers in Ripped Pants.
Q 22Squidward Tentacles, who despises his job, holds which position at the Krusty Krab?
Cashier
Cashier, at a register he would rather be nowhere near. Despite the name he is an octopus, not a squid, a turquoise one with a large nose and artistic pretensions.
Q 23What does Patrick Star live under?
A rock
A rock, which he lifts like a lid, and real starfish shelter under rocks too. The inside is sometimes bare sand and sometimes a furnished living room, depending on the joke.
Q 14What kind of house does SpongeBob SquarePants live in?
A pineapple
A pineapple, and the neighbours are no less strange: Squidward lives in a moai head and Patrick under a rock, the three houses side by side.
Q 15Which veteran actor voices the penny-pinching Mr. Krabs?
Clancy Brown
Clancy Brown, the Kurgan in Highlander and Captain Hadley in The Shawshank Redemption, has voiced Mr. Krabs since the show began.
Q 16Which bully promises to beat SpongeBob up in the season 3 episode "The Bully"?
Flats the Flounder
Flats the Flounder, a new classmate at Mrs. Puff's school, spends The Bully promising to beat SpongeBob up, then exhausts himself punching the absorbent sponge, who feels nothing.
Q 17What is the name of Mr. Krabs' teenage whale daughter?
Pearl
Mr. Krabs has a teenage sperm whale daughter named Pearl, whom he deeply cares for despite his intense love for money.
Q 18Who provides the voice for Patrick Star?
Bill Fagerbakke
Bill Fagerbakke, who played assistant coach Dauber Dybinski on the sitcom Coach, has voiced Patrick Star since the series began.
Q 19What was the title of Stephen Hillenburg's animation-school thesis film about the theory of relativity?
Wormholes
Wormholes, Hillenburg's 1992 thesis film at CalArts, was an animated short about the theory of relativity that screened at animation festivals before he went into television.
Q 20What product already held the trademark on the main character's original name, forcing a change?
A commercial mop
A commercial mop already owned the trademark on the character's original name, so shortly before the pilot was recorded Hillenburg renamed him SpongeBob, adding SquarePants for his square shape.
Q 24In which sport is Sandy Cheeks a champion?
Rodeo
Sandy first appeared in the episode 'Tea at the Treedome', which premiered on May 1, 1999.
Q 25What was SpongeBob SquarePants originally going to be called?
SpongeBoy
The character was originally named 'SpongeBoy', and the show 'SpongeBoy Ahoy!', but the name was already trademarked.
Q 26What kind of creature is Plankton, the show's tiny green villain?
A copepod
He is a skilled inventor with a Napoleon complex, and his computer Karen was originally meant to be just his computer before the writers made her his wife.
Q 27What is SpongeBob SquarePants' job at the restaurant where he works?
Fry Cook
Fry Cook, the maker of every Krabby Patty, a job he treats as a calling. Squidward does not share the enthusiasm.
Q 28Which Nickelodeon series briefly overtook SpongeBob's child ratings in October 2002?
The Fairly OddParents
The Fairly OddParents, Butch Hartman's cartoon about a boy with fairy godparents, briefly overtook SpongeBob among child viewers in October 2002, though SpongeBob soon regained the top spot.
Q 29In which ocean is the underwater city of Bikini Bottom located?
Pacific Ocean
Bikini Bottom, the vibrant setting for the series, is located deep within the Pacific Ocean.
Q 30What was Stephen Hillenburg's profession prior to creating *SpongeBob SquarePants*?
Marine science educator
Stephen Hillenburg was a marine biologist and educator, which heavily influenced the show's aquatic themes and characters.