The Curse Gets Worse: "The Curse of Monkey Island" Quiz

Answer: floating on the sea in a dodgem/bumper car

This scene sets the humorous tone well as Guybrush sits and writes in his diary about being stranded with nothing but sea for miles on his dodgem car, completely marooned and without food and water (while fresh fruit, chickens and water float past him on the water but he's too consumed in writing in his diary to notice).

He misses not only approaching land but also approaching a battlefield, to where a ship is firing cannons at a port - and it's his old nemesis LeChuck, right there in the prologue!

Answer: use it to propose to Elaine

After Guybrush gives Elaine said beautiful diamond ring and she agrees to the engagement, he places the right on her finger. Wally then takes this opportune moment to say it looks like the cursed ring from LeChuck's treasure vault ("but of course you wouldn't have given her that ring!"). Enraged, Elaine goes to punch Guybrush, but promptly is turned to gold mid-punch attempt. Guybrush wanders off to get some help only to find that leaving a solid gold statue on an island of pirates is in fact a terrible idea, as she immediately gets stolen as treasure.

Answer: chickens

"Pollo" is "chicken" in Spanish, and Plunder Island definitely takes this name and runs with it, with chickens all over the island. Blondebeard also owns a chicken shop. At one point of the game, Guybrush manages to get himself "tarred" and feathered and tells Blondebeard he's really "El Pollo Diablo", all part of a scheme to get aboard a pirate ship directly to the captain. (It works, too.)

Despite it looking like a port town, and "Puerto" (port) being in the name, the song "Plunder, Plunder, How I Wonder" that Guybrush sings to audition for the barbershop quartet actually refers to Puerto Pollo as Plunder Island's capital city. It's unknown if this an actual in-universe song or if Guybrush has just made it up on the spot, but given his other songs (which include advertising jingles) it seems likely to be legitimate. Likewise, it's also referred to as the capital city in one of the informative plaques that Guybrush finds all over the island.

Answer: deliberately give him an infestation of headlice

Literally hair-raising in this case, as Rottingham is having his hair cut at the Barbery Coast. It turns out that pirate barbers really do not want to be dealing with people with headlice, so Haggis yanks his hair up and uses a sword to cut it all off and make him bald, a severe insult to Captain Rottingham who is very vain and loves his hair. Why does Guybrush do something so horrible? He's too impatient to wait for Rottingham to finish his hair cut and needs access to the chair so that he can reach something on the ceiling.

Answer: choose the banjo as a weapon instead, then shoot Van Helgen's banjo

Guybrush can't beat Edward at his own game - he's simply too good of a shot. When given a choice of three boxes with guns in them, Guybrush closes the box, quite literally looks outside of it, and instead chooses the banjo case sitting behind it. Unfortunately, it turns out that Van Helgen is a pretty good banjo player too, and Guybrush can't beat him on that front either - not until he shoots the banjo so he can't play anymore. Guybrush tries to claim that he can't prove that Guybrush shot the banjo as the shot could have come from the grassy knoll (itself a reference to conspiracy theories surrounding the death of JFK/John Fitzgerald Kennedy) - it doesn't work, but "you are a pirate after all!" Van Helgen declares, and agrees to join the crew.

Answer: rhyme

The rhyming insults could make it somewhat easier for players as they could automatically rule out responses that don't rhyme with the insult. To counter this, the game will always throw in a fake response option that also rhymes with the insult but is humorous in the way it doesn't make any sense.

As in the first game, the final battle against Captain Rottingham utilises the insult responses that you've learned, but you have to apply them to a different set of insults.

Answer: singing

As the name "barbershop quarter" might suggest, they resort to singing instead - although they do also participate in other non-helpful activities such as whale watching. ("Less singing, more sailing!" demands Guybrush, which does not help at all.) They sing a cheerful song called "A Pirate I Was Meant To Be" which, going along with the insult swordfighting theme, contains rhyming lines, and despite Guybrush's best efforts to refute them they just keep rhyming along with his lines too - until they can't find a rhyme with "orange" so are forced to admit defeat.

In some other language versions of "The Curse of Monkey Island", this song got cut as it was too difficult to translate the song and keep it accurate and with a rhyming theme (and therefore have the song stop due to them being unable to find a rhyme). The scene was just skipped entirely in these releases.

Answer: Captain LeChimp

All the crew other than Mr Fossey being monkeys was perhaps a little bit of a clue... Captain LeChimp is just a somewhat confused looking chimp in a captain's costume. He does not in any way get in the way of Guybrush when he manages to finally sneak into the captain's quarters. Of the incorrect answers, Captain LeCharles is a nod to Charles L. Charles in the sequel "Escape From Monkey Island", which is an actual pseudonym of LeChuck.

Answer: vegetarians

A number of more modern day resources describe the Monkey Island cannibals of this game as being vegan, but they describe themselves as "vegetarian" in the game script so that's what we'll stick with. The cannibals say they are worshipping the lactose intolerant volcano god, so Guybrush of course does what he does best and throws cheese into the volcano, causing an eruption that is actually surprisingly beneficial not just for him but for the whole island.

Answer: mixes medicine and alcohol to make himself extremely drowsy/appear dead

He only does this after informing the audience that if he were a real person and not a cartoon character, this is of course not something he would ever do (nor should the audience). This scene is a bit of a parody of other adventure games of the time (not the first time LucasArts had parodied this in the Monkey Island series) and a fake game over sequence occurs, with Guybrush scoring 0 out of 800 points, with credits starting to roll - before Guybrush shouts he's not dead and they drop off the screen.

It also doesn't really help Guybrush fulfil his goal, as it turns out that Guybrush has not considered that to get buried in the Goodsoup family crypt, it requires him to be a Goodsoup. He just ends up in a more regular crypt instead. Never one to give up, Guybrush then hatches a plan to forge an identity as a Goodsoup.