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"Popeye" - "Baby Wants Spinach" Quiz

Released in 1950, "Baby Wants Spinach" was written by Carl Meyer and Jack Mercer (the voice of Popeye). It is my favourite of the colour cartoons from Famous Studios Paramount Pictures. Let's see how well you remember it.

A multiple-choice quiz by Tolkienist. Estimated time: 4 mins.

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Tolkienist

Time
4 mins

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Multiple Choice

Quiz #
358,280

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

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Question 1 of 10

1. At the beginning Popeye is seen walking down the street singing his theme song to himself. Where is he going? Hint

To his girlfriend Olive Oyl

To visit a sick Bluto

To see Poopdeck Pappy

Nowhere, he's going home

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Question 2 of 10

2. Popeye enters Olive's house. She tells him that he's just in time to mind someone. Who does Popeye have to mind? Hint

Eugene the Jeep

Cousin Swee'Pea

Alice the Goon

Poopdeck Pappy

3. Popeye gives Swee'Pea a ball to play with. The baby is pleased to have something to play with. It gets away from him and he follows it outside. What nearly happens to Swee'Pea when he's outside? Hint

A big bird tries to steal him

He's nearly run over by a trolley

He falls down a manhole

He causes a car crash

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Question 4 of 10

4. Next, the baby follows the ball and runs into yet another near disaster. When Swee'Pea runs into this disaster he's saved yet again by Popeye. What happens to cause yet another save from Popeye? Hint

The ball rolls into traffic

Bluto finds him and kidnaps him

He follows the ball into a radio station

He follows the ball onto a bridge

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Question 5 of 10

5. Here we go again, now the toddler is farther away from home. The ball is still bouncing away. Where does this take Swee'Pea? Hint

To the zoo

To a rodeo

To the circus

To a farm

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Question 6 of 10

6. Swee'Pea follows the ball into the first animal dwelling. What type of animal does he run into? Hint

A tiger cage

An elephant

An ostrich

A lion cage

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Question 7 of 10

7. Next, the ball rolls into another animal dwelling and this time, he's nearly eaten alive. Which animal nearly devours poor Swee'Pea? Hint

A tiger

A zebra

An alligator

A lion

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Question 8 of 10

8. After getting away from the alligators, Swee'Pea crawls towards the final animal cage. A sign out front says: "Danger Do Not Cross Over Railing". What animal lives in this cage that is so dangerous? Hint

A tiger

A gorilla

A leopard

A cheetah

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Question 9 of 10

9. Swee'Pea now powered by the spinach looks into the cage with anger as he sees the gorilla subduing Popeye. What is the gorilla doing to Popeye to subdue him? Hint

Pounding his feet with his hands

Sitting on him continually

Stepping on Popeye

Bouncing his huge chest onto his feet

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Question 10 of 10

10. All is well. Olive returns from her day of shopping though she finds Popeye outside with a black eye and his arm in a sling. She asks where Swee'Pea is and Popeye thumbs into the house. When Olive enters the house, what does she find that is unusual regarding Swee'Pea? Hint

Bouncing on the gorilla's chest

Playing ball with the zoo animals

Feeding the lion

Giving the elephant peanuts

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. At the beginning Popeye is seen walking down the street singing his theme song to himself. Where is he going?

Answer: To his girlfriend Olive Oyl

Popeye is walking over to visit Olive Oyl his longtime girlfriend. He's seen carrying a box of chocolates and flowers for her hoping for a date but, it doesn't quite turn out that way.

2. Popeye enters Olive's house. She tells him that he's just in time to mind someone. Who does Popeye have to mind?

Answer: Cousin Swee'Pea

Olive is about to go out shopping and her cousin Swee'Pea is a baby that needs minding. Olive was voiced by Mae Questell and she also did Swee'Pea's crying sound effects.

Answer: He's nearly run over by a trolley

Luckily Popeye rushes outside and smashes the trolley car, preventing Swee'Pea's death.

Answer: He follows the ball onto a bridge

Popeye to the rescue yet again and this time it's Popeye's neck that becomes trapped inside the bridge while Swee'Pea calmly follows the ball again.

5. Here we go again, now the toddler is farther away from home. The ball is still bouncing away. Where does this take Swee'Pea?

Answer: To the zoo

Swee'Pea has followed the ball into the zoo and Popeye is still on his trail. What could possibly happen next?

6. Swee'Pea follows the ball into the first animal dwelling. What type of animal does he run into?

Answer: An elephant

Popeye prevents the elephant from stepping on Swee'Pea by pulling the elephant's tail though he becomes squashed instead of the baby.

7. Next, the ball rolls into another animal dwelling and this time, he's nearly eaten alive. Which animal nearly devours poor Swee'Pea?

Answer: A lion

Popeye saves the day yet again. After the lion, he saves Swee'Pea from alligators by bashing them and turning them into suitcases, but the baby manages to creep away again.

Answer: A gorilla

The gorilla sees Swee'Pea playing with the ball and snatches it away. Popeye rushes in to grab Swee'Pea away from the "Chipmunk" as he calls the gorilla. The huge beast grabs Popeye and holds him up by a leg bashing him onto the floor of the cage. He steps on Popeye's spinach can and the weed flies into Swee'Pea's mouth. Then, it's Swee'Pea's turn to rescue Popeye.

9. Swee'Pea now powered by the spinach looks into the cage with anger as he sees the gorilla subduing Popeye. What is the gorilla doing to Popeye to subdue him?

Answer: Bouncing his huge chest onto his feet

The gorilla has an unusually HUGE chest that he has expanded and is bouncing it onto Popeye's feet. Swee'Pea twirls his fist, punches the gorilla in the chest and the punch slams him into a wall and he splits into the three smaller monkeys: See no evil, speak no evil and hear no evil.

Answer: Playing ball with the zoo animals

Swee'Pea is playing with the ball; birds fly by and he's also in the living room and passes the ball to the lion and the elephant. And then we iris out for the end.

Source: Author Tolkienist

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