Character Menu Trivia Quiz

Answer: Mushroom

Mario and his brother Luigi have been eating mushrooms throughout the "Mario Bros." franchise. And the fungi are good for them. It makes them bigger, smaller, stronger, whatever is needed for the level they are in. Normally the mushrooms are the stylized red with white spots (or red with yellow spots) but sometimes they are green and white.

Answer: Spinach

Popeye the Sailor Man was created by Elzie Segar and appeared in a comic strip in 1929. When he downs a can of spinach (without having to remove his pipe first) his forearms bulge out with his sudden increase in power. His super-strength allows him to defeat the bad guys with a knockout punch.
Why spinach? It's nutritional value is widely known but when a German chemist made an error in transcribing his notes, he accidentally increased the protein content by 10 times! This was the reason the creators of Popeye chose spinach as his super food. The cartoon also increased consumption of the previously hated vegetable by a third of what they were previously eating. Such is the power of the media.

Popeye's habits of smoking and fighting are not good for you, but spinach is, so do a Popeye and eat some.

Answer: Honey

A.A. Milne's lovable fictional teddy bear that first appeared in the 1926 tale "Winnie-the-Pooh" and has been embraced by children and adults ever since. Pooh lives in the Hundred-Acre Wood with Christopher Robin and assorted anthropomorphic animals and toys. Pooh loves honey and more than once gets himself into trouble trying to get it from hives, or because he eats too much and gets stuck.

Winnie-the-Pooh was adapted by Walt Disney for the screen and spin-off movies, television animations, live action television and puppet shows. A 2018 cinematic production featured Ewan McGregor as a grown-up Christopher Robin.

Answer: Pumpkin

Linus van Pelt is a character from Charles M Schultz's "Peanuts" comic strip. He is the younger brother of Lucy and friend to Charlie Brown. He is depicted carrying a security blanket and occasionally sucking his thumb. Despite this, he is a wise theologian who often spouts scripture yet believes in the 'Great Pumpkin'.

This being, similar to Santa Claus, will visit the most sincere pumpkin patch on Halloween and deliver presents. So Linus sits in his pumpkin patch with his pumpkins while his friends are out trick or treating.

Answer: Eggs

Specifically green eggs with a side order of ham.

"Green Eggs and Ham" is a children's book by Dr Seuss and first published in 1960. The main character, Sam-I-Am tries to get an unnamed character to eat the unusual dish and finally succeeds. The book, like "The Cat in the Hat", consists of only 50 words and is done in a rhyming style for beginner readers. Forty years after its first publication, "Green Eggs and Ham" was the fourth best-selling children's book until that time.

Answer: Peach

"James and the Giant Peach" is a Roald Dahl novel released in 1961. James is an orphan forced to live with two cruel aunts when one day he meets a stranger and is given some magic seeds which will bring him happiness. James is supposed to swallow them but accidentally drops them on a peach tree. The tree then produces an enormous peach that grows to the size of a house. James finds a way inside where he meets a group of anthropomorphic garden bugs. They set off inside the peach and go on an adventure around the world, finally landing in New York City where James and the bugs settle to live.

The book has been adapted into a 1996 movie and then a stage musical.

Answer: Beans

"Jack and the Beanstalk" is an English fairy tale that was known by many names until it was re-written in 1890 by Joseph Jacobs. It is this version of a classic rags to riches tale that is the most popular in modern times.
Jack and his mother are poor and when Jack swaps the family cow for some magic beans, they turn out to be a source of riches for them. Jack, who is portrayed as the hero of the tale turns out to be disobedient (when he didn't sell the cow), a thief (when he stole from the giant) and a murderer (when he chops down the beanstalk causing the giant to fall to his death).

Answer: Onions

The 2001 computer-animated film introduced the world to Shrek - a swamp-living ogre voiced by Mike Myers. When his swamp is overrun with fairy tale characters, Shrek makes a deal with the antagonist of the plot - wanna-be King, Lord Farquaad. Shrek is on a quest to rescue Princess Fiona, take her to Farquaad and in return, gain control of his swamp. Along for the ride is donkey, voiced by Eddie Murphy.

One of the most well known dialogues of the movie is when Shrek is explaining ogres to Donkey: Shrek- "Ogres are like onions" ... "Layers. Onions have layers. Ogres have layers. Onions have layers. You get it? We both have layers."

Answer: Chocolate

"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" is a 1964 novel by British author Roald Dahl. It is a classic rags to riches story of Charlie Bucket who wins a chance to see inside a highly secret chocolate factory. Four other children also enter and they meet the elusive owner Willy Wonka and his team of workers, the Oompa Loompas. One by one, the other children are ejected due to greed and only Charlie is left at the end. He then learns that Willy Wonka has chosen him to replace him as chief chocolate maker and Oompa Loompa carer. Charlie, his parents and four grandparents move out of their one bedroom shack and move into the factory.

The novel has been made into movies, video games, stage plays and musicals. There is even a "Willy Wonka" ride at Alton Towers Theme Park in England.

Answer: Bananas

Donkey Kong is the titular character in a highly successful video game series by Nintendo that first appeared in 1981. The first "Donkey Kong" game was an arcade style game featuring Kong in a construction site. "Donkey Kong Country" is a series of levels where Kong and his gang of misfit monkeys collect coloured bananas, golden bananas and blueprints in an effort to defeat a gang of Kremlings and their leader King K. Rool.

Since that successful first game, there has been numerous spin-offs and cross-overs, TV shows, films and a monster truck racing circuit. It has been awarded seven different world records by the Guinness World Records on 2008.