Very Cool Cats Trivia Quiz

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Just like in real life, cats are second only to dogs in terms of popularity in the world of entertainment. Even ruling out any wild members of the cat family such as lions, tigers and cougars, the category of cats in entertainment counts some of the most iconic animal characters ever created.

Some of the cats listed here have their origins in literature, though they may be better known for their appearances in other media. Dinah is Alice's cat in Lewis Carroll's "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland": though she does not physically appear in the book, Alice frequently talks to and about her. In Walt Disney's 1951 animated film adaptation of the book, Dinah is a small red kitten with a pink bow that is seen at the beginning and at the end of the movie.

In Stephen King's novel "Pet Sematary", Church (short for Winston Churchill) is the cat of the Creed family, which is killed by a truck and buried in an ancient burial ground that turns out to be haunted - with horrifying consequences for everyone involved. In the 1989 movie adaptation, Church is played by a blue British Shorthair cat.

In the "Harry Potter" books by J.K. Rowling, Mrs Norris is the pet cat of Hogwarts caretaker Argus Filch. Described as an ugly, skinny cat with yellow, lamp-like eyes, she patrols the school's corridors looking for misbehaving students. In the film adaptations of the books, she is played by a much better-looking tabby Maine Coon cat.

Grizabella, the Glamour Cat in Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical "Cats", does not appear in T.S. Eliot's poetry collection "Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats", on which the musical is based. The old, lonely cat who reminisces about her glory days in the iconic song "Memory" comes from an unpublished poem by Eliot that the poet left out of the collection because he thought it was too sad for children.

Oliver, the main character of the Walt Disney animated movie "Oliver & Company" (1988), is a feline version of Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist. The orphaned orange kitten, who joins a gang of dogs to survive in the streets of New York City, is eventually adopted by a little girl, the daughter of wealthy parents.

Thomas O' Malley is also a Disney character. This streetwise, free-and-easy cat in the 1970 animated film "The Aristocats" helps the high-class cat Duchess and her three kittens to return to their luxurious Paris home after they are kidnapped - falling in love with the beautiful white cat in the process.

Created by cult American cartoonist Robert Crumb, "Fritz the Cat" first appeared in 1965 as a comic strip in the satire magazine "Help!". In 1972, the rather risqué adventures of this anthropomorphic tabby cat - described as a sophisticated college student living in a "supercity" populated by other animals - were adapted by Ralph Bakshi in an animated film of the same name. "Fritz the Cat" became the first animated movie to receive an X rating in the US.

Salem Saberhagen, Sabrina's sidekick in the TV sitcom "Sabrina the Teenage Witch", is a talking, black American Shorthair cat (often played by an animatronic model). The series isbased on the comic series of the same name from Archie Comics. Salem was originally a 500-year-old warlock, forced to spend 100 years as a cat as punishment for trying to take over the world.

Jones (nicknamed Jonesy) is the ginger American Shorthair cat on board the doomed spaceship Nostromo in Ridley Scott's 1979 horror film "Alien". He is not only the ship's rat-catcher, but also its mascot. Jones and Ellen Ripley are the only members of the mission that survive their encounter with the deadly xenomorph. Jones returns in "Aliens", the second instalment of the franchise, but is left behind when Ripley leaves with the Marines to investigate a colony.

In the "Austin Powers" film series, Mr Bigglesworth is a cat owned by Dr. Evil, a parody of Ernst Stavro Blofeld, the criminal mastermind in the James Bond novels and films. Mr Bigglesworth was originally a white Persian cat (like Blofeld's unnamed pet) who lost of all its fur in a thawing accident: the bald feline is played by a Sphynx cat by the very funny name of Ted Nude Gent.

The six interlopers in this feline-centred quiz are, quite fittingly, all fictional mice. Algernon (from Daniel Keyes' novella "Flowers from Algernon") and Reepicheep (from C.S. Lewis' "Chronicles of Narnia") are literary creations. Stuart Little (from E.B. White's novel of the same name) and Mr Jingles (from Stephen King's novel "The Green Mile") also appear in the movie adaptations of these works. Gus Gus is one of the two mice in Walt Disney's animated version of "Cinderella", while Jerry is Tom's rival in the animated series by Hanna and Barbera.