Animals Abound in Entertainment Quiz

Answer: Cats

Garfield is the overweight ginger tomcat created by Jim Davis in the eponymous comic series. He likes to eat (especially lasagna) and gives comment on what happens in and around the house. Garfield hates Mondays, especially those in February.
Other characters in "Garfield" are his slave Jon Arbuckle, the dim-witted dog Odie, the vet Dr. Liz (whom Jon fancies), the pink queen cat Arlene (whom Garfield occasionally tries to seduce), and the kitten Nermal (who teases Garfield regularly).
The comic strips "Garfield" are published in daily episodes since 1978. There are also collections of the daily gags, and there have been made several TV series and movies starring Garfield. A few video games have been published, and during a few years there was even a Garfield themed restaurant.

Answer: Cats

Crookshanks appeared at first in "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban" (1999), the third instalment of the novel series created by JK Rowling. As the young wizard Harry Potter got ready for his third year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, several people warned him for Sirius Black, a wizard who was convicted as a mass murderer. Sirius escaped from the high-security prison of Azkaban, and was supposed to track Harry down.
Meanwhile Hermione Granger had acquired Crookshanks, a large ginger tabby cat. Crookshanks was very eager to capture Ron Weasley's rat Scabbers, and this provoked a row between Ron and Hermione, Harry's best friends.
Crookshanks was very proficient in tracking down all sorts of evil creatures. And as some wizards could transform into animals, Crookshanks' intuition would soon point our heroes to discovering the truth...
The book was made into a movie in 2004. Crookshanks was played by the real ginger cat Crackerjack.

Answer: Cats

In 1970 the Walt Disney Company released the animated movie "The Aristocats".
Stars of this movie were Duchess, a white queen cat, and her three kittens Marie, Toulouse and Berlioz, all living at the mansion of a retired opera singer. When the butler overheard the diva's plans to leave all her estate to the cats, he decided to "catnap" them and leave them in the countryside. Luckily they were rescued by a feral cat named Thomas O'Malley, who introduced them to his band of jazz playing cats.
Abraham DeLacey Giuseppe Casey Thomas O'Malley the Alley Cat (as his full name is, according to the song he performs when first meeting Duchess) is portrayed as a ginger tomcat with white chest and a small whitish tailtip.
Thomas O'Malley (voiced by Phil Harris) and his fellows had once more to rescue Duchess and the kittens, when the butler Edgar tried to ship them off to Timbuktu.

Answer: Cats

In the comic series "The Smurfs", we meet the eponymous small blue characters and their enemies: the wizard Gargamel and his cat Azrael. While Gargamel needs a Smurf or two to prepare various sinister potions, Azrael would like to change his diet of mice for Smurfs.
Azrael is typically depicted as a ginger cat with white chest.
The comic series was developed by the Belgian author Peyo in 1958. Since then, there have been other media based upon the Smurfs: television, movies, music, video games...

Answer: Dogs

"Lassie" was the title of a long-running television series starring a rough collie.
During the first three seasons (1954-1957), Lassie lived with the Miller family on their ranch. When grandpa Miller died, the Martin family bought the ranch and Lassie stayed with them for seven seasons. In 1964 Lassie got a job with the US Forest Service and helped several forest rangers during six seasons. In season 17 Lassie was the sole recurring character, and during seasons 18 and 19 Lassie returned to a ranch inhabited by Garth Holden.
Most episodes involved the young family child (usually 8-12 years old) getting into some kind of trouble, and Lassie rescuing him.
There have been some efforts to revive the series after 1974, but these were not commercial successes.

Answer: Dogs

"Beethoven" was a 1992 movie not about the German composer, but about a Saint-Bernard adopted by the family Newton.
Beethoven grew to a large drooling dog, charming Alice Newton and the three kids Ryce, Ted and Emily - but not father George Newton, who utterly despised that drooling, naughty dog. Until Beethoven was dognapped by the evil Dr. Varnick - and George and the other family members came to rescue their dog.
The franchise grew to a series of five movies (1992-2003) and a reboot of three instalments (2008-2014). A television series was derived of it, and so was a video game.

Answer: Dogs

Interesting info:
"101 Dalmatians" (1956) started as a children's book written by Dodie Smith, but attained world fame when the Disney company in 1961 released an animated movie based upon the story. This interesting info is based mostly on the events in the 1961 movie.
When their owners walked the male Dalmatian Pongo and the female Dalmatian Perdita in the park, it was love at first sight - not only between the two humans but also between the two dogs.
Soon afterwards Pongo and Perdita shared the house with their newly-wed owners. Perdita gave birth to a litter of 15 puppies.
Cruella DeVil, a fashion designer, made an offer to buy the lot, but when it was turned down, she had the dog family stolen. Pongo, Perdita and their puppies were locked away with 84 other Dalmatians, and Cruella planned to kill them all in order to make a nice spotted fur coat out of them.
But of course, the captured dogs could count on the aid of various other animals to break out and returned to their owners Roger and Anita.
"101 Dalmatians" inspired three other movies, a few animated TV series, a video game and at tleast two stage musicals.

Answer: Dogs

Dogmatix is a small dog from the comic strip series "Asterix". René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo introduced Dogmatix in the fifth album "Asterix and the Banquet" (1965) as a stray dog adopted by Obelix.
Dogmatix is portrayed as a tiny white terrier with black nose, black ear tips and a black tip at the tail. In case Asterix' wits were not sufficient to complete their adventures successfully, it was usually Dogmatix who came up with the brightest idea.
The comic series "Asterix" inspired at least 18 movies, at least 15 board games, at least 40 video games, and some TV series. In most of these adaptations Dogmatix plays a role besides Asterix and Obelix.

Answer: Horses

Anna Sewell wrote the novel "Black Beauty" and published it in 1877. It is an "autobiography" of a horse that has had several different owners, some of who treated the horse cruelly.
Black Beauty was of course a black horse, with a white blaze.
Sewell's novel was adapted into several movies and TV series.

Answer: Horses

The Lone Ranger was a character invented by George W. Trendle and/or Fran Striker. The background story told about six Texas Rangers being ambushed, and a wandering Mohawk named Tonto nursing one of them back to life. The "Lone Ranger" as Tonto named him, chose to live on as a masked pursuer of criminals.
One day the Lone Ranger saved a wild horse from a buffalo charge, and the horse decided to serve the Ranger ever after. This white horse was called Silver.
"The Lone Ranger" started as a radio programme. Starting in 1949, a TV series followed that ran for eight years (with Clayton Moore in the title role).
The radio show and TV series had also spin-offs in the form of novels, comic strips and a few movies.

Answer: Horses

The Belgian comic strip author Morris started in 1946 with the western series "Lucky Luke". The titular gunslinger was in almost every album accompanied by Jolly Jumper, "the smartest horse in the Far West".
Jolly Jumper was portrayed as a white horse with yellow manes, yellow tail and yellow socks, and a few liver spots on the behind. He frequently talked to Lucky Luke, was seen playing chess and even indulged tightrope walking.
The comic series has also spawned several movies and TV series with the same characters.

Answer: Horses

JRR Tolkien created the Middle-earth through his books "The Hobbit", "The Lord of the Rings" and "Silmarillion". In this Middle-earth, Humans, Elves, Dwarves and other creatures live in a rather medieval setting.
One of the key figures in the trilogy "The Lord of the Rings" was Gandalf, a wise wizard with great powers. In "The Two Towers", Gandalf gained the trust of Shadowfax, a prototype of the ideal horse. Shadowfax was one of the Mearas, mythical horses of great endurance, who refused to be saddled except by nobility. Shadowfax was portrayed as fully white, and carried Gandalf on long swift rides.
Tolkien's novels have at last been filmed by Peter Jackson between 2001 and 2003 - for a long time, the books were deemed too complex to be filmed.

Answer: Mice

"Tom and Jerry" was initially a series of animated short stories developed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera from 1940 to 1958. Later additions were made by other animators, leading up to 166 episodes.
The two title characters are Tom the house cat and Jerry the house mouse, who most of the time are harassing each other. Tom was a grey cat with white chest, while Jerry was a brown mouse.
The short sketches were shown in various TV series and have also inspired several movies, a number of video games and even a musical adaptation for stages in Japan.

Answer: Mice

C.S. Lewis wrote the novel series "The Chronicles of Narnia", a young adult series with many mythological creatures as well as "ordinary" Talking Animals.
Reepicheep was one of these Talking Animals: a mouse of unusual length, king of the Talking Mice, and an expert on the rapier. He appeared briefly in "Prince Caspian" (1951) helping the Narnians (the good ones) fighting the Telmarines (the bad ones). In "The Voyage of the Dawn Treader" (1952) Reepicheep played a crucial role as the only Talking Animal aboard this ship. Reepicheep also appeared briefly at the end of "The Last Battle" (1956).
"Prince Caspian" and "The Voyage of the Dawn Treader" have been adapted into a live-action movie. They have also been incorporated in a TV series, and broadcast as a radio programme.

Answer: Mice

The Walt Disney Company released "The Rescuers" in 1977. The main stars are Bernard and Bianca, two mice employed by the Rescue Aid Society, an organization of mice within the mandate of the United Nations. The principal goal of the Rescue Aid Society was to help orphan children in danger. And thus Bernard and Bianca accepted the mission to find Penny, a little orphan abducted by Medusa.
Bianca was portrayed as a white mouse, usually wearing a purple hat and a purple scarf, and was voiced by Eva Gabor. That's why she was given a background of Hungarian nationality. Bernard on the other hand was a brown mouse, most often dressed in a red woollen jumper and wearing a brown beret.
Bernard and Bianca returned for a sequel, "The Rescuers Down Under", set in Australia.

Answer: Mice

E.B. White published in 1945 his children's book "Stuart Little". The book plot started with the family Little to which a son named Stuart was born. But contrary to ordinary boys, Stuart resembled a white mouse in every aspect, including his size. This made quite a conundrum for the Little's housecat Snowbell: while her instinct was to pursue and kill everyone who resembles a mouse, she knew Stuart to be a real family member.
In the three movies based upon this book, the Littles adopted a mouse named Stuart and presented him to the outside world as their son.
Stuart Little lived through several adventures, meanwhile befriending a canary.