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Q 01What kind of land animal is Sandy Cheeks, who wears a diving suit to live under the sea?
A squirrel
A squirrel: Sandy lives in an air-filled home and wears her suit and helmet outside it, so her sea-creature friends are the ones who need helmets, full of water, when they visit.
Q 02Which phrase does SpongeBob SquarePants chant over and over as he heads off to work?
"I'm ready!"
"I'm ready!" is his chant on the way to ask for a job; at the door he decides he isn't, and Patrick has to talk him into it.
Q 03The Krusty Krab restaurant was designed to look like which piece of fishing gear?
A lobster trap
A lobster trap: Hillenburg drew the restaurant that way in his first pitch, building the place out of the summers he had spent working at a seafood restaurant.
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 05In the SpongeBob SquarePants episode "Frankendoodle", what falls from the surface and brings drawings to life?
A magic pencil
A magic pencil, dropped by a human artist at sea: SpongeBob sketches a double of himself, DoodleBob, who runs amok until the pair trap him flat on the page of a book.
Q 06What is the title of the 1999 pilot episode of SpongeBob SquarePants?
Help Wanted
Help Wanted: Mr. Krabs sends the eager applicant off to find an impossible spatula, then takes him on when he flies back with it just in time to feed a mob of ravenous anchovies.
Q 07What happens to Mrs. Puff, SpongeBob's boating teacher, whenever she is frightened?
She inflates into a ball
She inflates into a ball: Hillenburg made her a pufferfish so that she would go off like a car airbag every time SpongeBob crashes the boat.
Q 08What is Mr. Krabs' first name?
Eugene
Eugene Harold Krabs was modelled on Hillenburg's old boss at a seafood restaurant, a redheaded, muscular former army cook, and the crab's shell stands in for the hair.
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
Texas: in the episode named after it, a homesick Sandy sings about missing home and boards a bus to leave, until SpongeBob lures her back to a surprise Texas-themed party.
Q 11What type of sea creature is Patrick, SpongeBob's pink next-door neighbour?
Starfish
Starfish: Hillenburg picked the animal because starfish look dumb and slow but are in fact very active and aggressive, which he thought was Patrick all over.
Q 12What kind of spooky figure is the Flying Dutchman in SpongeBob SquarePants?
A ghost pirate
A ghost pirate, glowing green, who collects souls: in Born Again Krabs he turns up at Mr. Krabs' hospital bed and threatens to take his unless the crab changes his ways.
Q 13What were the arch-rivals Mr. Krabs and Plankton to each other as children?
Best friends
Best friends: in the special Friend or Foe the two childhood outcasts go into the burger business together, and the falling-out that follows starts both their feud and the Krabby Patty.
Q 21Squidward Tentacles, who despises his job, holds which position at the Krusty Krab?
Cashier
Cashier, at a till he would rather be nowhere near: in Squid on Strike he leads a walkout over the fees Mr. Krabs docks from their pay, and gets himself and SpongeBob fired.
Q 22What does Patrick, SpongeBob's neighbour and closest pal, live under?
A rock
A rock: left homeless in Home Sweet Pineapple, SpongeBob tries moving in under it with Patrick, soon gives up and tries Squidward's house next, only to be shown the door.
Q 23In which sport is Sandy Cheeks a champion?
Rodeo
Rodeo: in Rodeo Daze an invitation to one takes Sandy back home, and SpongeBob, convinced it is far too dangerous for her, hauls the entire town after her to the rescue.
Q 14In the episode "Home Sweet Pineapple", which creatures devour SpongeBob's pineapple house?
Nematodes
Nematodes, a hungry horde of them, drink the whole house down to a single seed, and SpongeBob is ready to move back in with his parents when he plants it and a new pineapple springs up.
Q 15Which veteran actor voices the penny-pinching Mr. Krabs?
Clancy Brown
Clancy Brown made his name playing menacing heavies, the Kurgan in Highlander and the brutal guard captain in The Shawshank Redemption, and has voiced the miserly cartoon crab since 1999.
Q 16Which bully promises to beat SpongeBob up in the SpongeBob SquarePants 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
Pearl is the heir to her father's restaurant, which he means her to run one day; given a summer job there, she restyles it as the teen-friendly Kuddly Krab and the takings fall.
Q 18Who provides the voice of Patrick, SpongeBob's dim-witted neighbour?
Bill Fagerbakke
Bill Fagerbakke was hired as a counterpoint: Hillenburg played him a tape of SpongeBob's voice and wanted its opposite, and a castmate calls him "a force of nature, like Patrick".
Q 19What was the title of Stephen Hillenburg's animation-school thesis film about the theory of relativity?
Wormholes
Wormholes won a prize at the 1992 Ottawa animation festival, and it was at a festival screening that Hillenburg met the producer who gave him his first job in television.
Q 20What is the name of Bikini Bottom's beach, where the locals sunbathe and surf?
Goo Lagoon
Goo Lagoon is where the town goes to sunbathe: Larry the Lobster is its lifeguard, and it is where SpongeBob splits his trousers trying to impress Sandy in Ripped Pants.
Q 24Under which name was SpongeBob SquarePants first pitched to Nickelodeon?
SpongeBoy
SpongeBoy: the show was pitched as SpongeBoy Ahoy!, but the name turned out to be taken already, so he became SpongeBob, with SquarePants added for his shape.
Q 25What kind of creature is Plankton, the tiny green villain of SpongeBob SquarePants?
A copepod
A copepod, one of the tiny crustaceans that drift in real plankton; most species have a single eye in the middle of the head, which accounts for the villain's one.
Q 26What 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 27In the episode "Band Geeks", which condiment does Patrick ask about being an instrument?
Mayonnaise
Mayonnaise: "No, Patrick, mayonnaise is not an instrument," sighs Squidward, facing the roomful of townsfolk he has recruited to pass off as a marching band.
Q 28In which ocean is the underwater city of Bikini Bottom located?
Pacific Ocean
Pacific Ocean: the town lies beneath Bikini Atoll, where the US once tested nuclear bombs, and SpongeBob's voice actor has laughed off the fan theory that fallout made the sea life talk.
Q 29What was Stephen Hillenburg's job before he trained as an animator and created SpongeBob SquarePants?
Marine science educator
Marine science educator: he taught visitors about tide-pool life at a California ocean institute, and the teaching stories he drew there supplied the cast of his cartoon.
Q 30In the SpongeBob SquarePants episode "Pizza Delivery", why does the customer refuse the pizza?
The drink was missing
The drink was missing: after a trek across the desert the customer rages that he ordered one too and slams the door, so Squidward knocks again and throws the pizza in his face.