Q 01/05

What is the first Pokemon listed in the National Pokedex?

A) Pikachu

B) Mew

C) Charmander

D) Bulbasaur

Answer · why

D) Bulbasaur

Bulbasaur is #001 in the National Pokédex, yet it was the last of its family to be designed: its artist started from the finished Venusaur and worked ...

Q 02/05

Jynx, the female-only Generation I Pokémon that evolves from Smoochum, has which pair of types?

A) Ice/Psychic

B) Ice/Fairy

C) Water/Psychic

D) Ice/Ghost

Answer · why

A) Ice/Psychic

Ice/Psychic was a pairing no other Generation I Pokémon had; Jynx's original black-skinned design was recoloured purple after accusations that it rese...

Q 03/05

Which Pokémon travelling with Jessie and James can speak human language?

A) Meowth

B) Wobbuffet

C) Persian

D) Koffing

Answer · why

A) Meowth

Meowth taught himself to talk and walk upright to win over a female Meowth named Meowzie; she called him a freak instead, and the heartbroken Meowth w...

Q 04/05

What are the names of the two human villains from Team Rocket who follow Ash throughout the anime?

A) Butch and Cassidy

B) Jessie and James

C) Annie and Oakley

D) Mars and Jupiter

Answer · why

B) Jessie and James

Jessie and James, along with their talking Meowth, are the iconic Team Rocket trio. Their names are a play on the outlaw Jesse James.

Q 05/05

Which Pokémon sings its audiences to sleep in the anime, then angrily scribbles on their faces?

A) Clefairy

B) Jigglypuff

C) Chansey

D) Wigglytuff

Answer · why

B) Jigglypuff

Jigglypuff takes it as an insult when listeners doze off mid-song, so it uses the marker pen it carries as a microphone to draw on every sleeping face...

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