Q 01/05

Stephen Hillenburg, the creator of SpongeBob SquarePants, worked as what before he moved into animation?

A) A marine science educator

B) A submarine engineer

C) A pastry chef

D) A high-school gym teacher

Answer · why

A) A marine science educator

Hillenburg was a marine science educator, and many of the show's ideas came from The Intertidal Zone, an educational comic about sea life he drew in t...

Q 02/05

Hillenburg's original name for SpongeBob was dropped because it was already trademarked by what kind of product?

A) A breakfast cereal

B) A mop

C) A bath toy

D) A dish soap

Answer · why

B) A mop

He kept "Sponge" in the new name so nobody would mistake the character for a "cheese man"; Tom Kenny supplied "SquarePants".

Q 03/05

Squidward Tentacles lives in a house shaped like what?

A) A sunken lighthouse

B) An upturned rowboat

C) An Easter Island moai

D) A giant conch shell

Answer · why

C) An Easter Island moai

Squidward's home is an Easter Island moai, and despite the name he is an octopus, not a squid, as well as Bikini Bottom's most reluctant clarinet play...

Q 04/05

SpongeBob's home town sits beneath which real-life Pacific location?

A) Christmas Island

B) Bikini Atoll

C) The Mariana Trench

D) The Great Barrier Reef

Answer · why

B) Bikini Atoll

Bikini Bottom takes its name from Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands, site of US nuclear tests, and the show places the town on the seabed directly ...

Q 05/05

Which pirate, played by a real actor, hosts SpongeBob's special episodes alongside his parrot Potty?

A) Captain Krabs

B) Peg-Leg Pete

C) Barnacle Bill

D) Patchy

Answer · why

D) Patchy

Patchy the Pirate, president of the SpongeBob fan club, is played in live action by Tom Kenny, who also voices SpongeBob; his parrot Potty is a puppet...