Q 01/05

Which classic Nintendo game was first designed as a Popeye game?

A) Excitebike

B) Mario Bros.

C) Duck Hunt

D) Donkey Kong

Answer · why

D) Donkey Kong

Donkey Kong. Shigeru Miyamoto first sketched it around Popeye, Olive Oyl and Bluto, who were then redrawn as Mario, Pauline and the gorilla.

Q 02/05

Popeye first appeared in 1929 as a bit player in which ten-year-old comic strip?

A) Thimble Theatre

B) Gasoline Alley

C) Bringing Up Father

D) Toonerville Folks

Answer · why

A) Thimble Theatre

Thimble Theatre had starred Olive Oyl and her boyfriend since 1919, but the walk-on sailor took over so completely that the strip was later renamed Po...

Q 03/05

Popeye debuted in January 1929, days after which European comics hero?

A) Asterix

B) Tintin

C) Lucky Luke

D) Spirou

Answer · why

B) Tintin

Tintin reached print on January 10, 1929, one week before Popeye, a sailor his creator meant to use only once.

Q 04/05

Frank "Rocky" Fiegel, believed to have inspired Popeye, was known locally for what?

A) Piloting riverboats

B) Getting into fistfights

C) Lifting weights on stage

D) Winning swimming races

Answer · why

B) Getting into fistfights

Getting into fistfights. Fiegel was a tough, pipe-smoking local whom the cartoonist remembered from boyhood, and his gravestone now bears an engraving...

Q 05/05

Doctors call the bulge left by a torn tendon in which muscle the "Popeye sign"?

A) Biceps

B) Triceps

C) Deltoid

D) Trapezius

Answer · why

A) Biceps

Biceps. A torn tendon lets the muscle bunch into a ball above the elbow, a bulge doctors named for the cartoon sailor's arms.