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Cats that Never Really Were Trivia Quiz

Cats figure in all manner of fictional works: novels, plays, short stories, movies, television, paintings, and song lyrics. Test your knowledge of fictional cats by taking this quiz.

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

Author
FatherSteve

Time
4 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
250,566

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
15

Difficulty
Average

Avg Score
10 / 15

Plays
2186

Awards
Top 20% Quiz

Last 3 plays: ertrum (14/15), Rizeeve (15/15), catnlib (13/15).

Question 1 of 15

1. What was the name of the cat in the 1950 play and 1958 movie "Bell, Book and Candle"? Hint

Gillian

Pyewacket

Matthew Hopkins

Nicky

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Question 2 of 15

2. What was the name of the ancient wise cat who had "lived many lives in succession" in T.S. Eliot's "Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats" and the musical adaptation "Cats"? Hint

Old Leviticus

Old Deuteronomy

Old Carbucketty

Old Jellicle

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Question 3 of 15

3. Of what breed were the twin cats in the 1955 Disney movie "Lady and the Tramp"? Hint

Mixed breed, like Tramp

Siamese

Burmese

Persian

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Question 4 of 15

4. What is the name of the cat hanged by its owner in Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Black Cat"? Hint

Fortunato

Hades

Pluto

Lenore

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Question 5 of 15

5. Who created the character The Cat in the Hat? Hint

Maurice Sendak

Mike Myers

Theodor Seuss Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss

Hans Christian Andersen

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Question 6 of 15

6. Who wrote the poem which begins "The fat cat on the mat may seem to dream of nice mice that suffice for him, or cream"? Hint

C.S. Lewis

J.R.R. Tolkien

Charles Williams

Dorothy L. Sayers

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Question 7 of 15

7. Who composed the children's fairytale opera "Puss in Boots"? Hint

Andr� Previn

Stephen Sondheim

Maurice Ravel

C�sar Cui

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Question 8 of 15

8. In 1972, Ralph Bakshi created an X-rated feature-length cartoon about a cat going to college in the 1960s. Name the cat. Hint

Skip

Fritz

Sylvester

Top Cat

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Question 9 of 15

9. In the U.S. television series "Sabrina the Teenage Witch", what is the name of the talking cat? Hint

Salem Saberhagen

Westbridge

Boston

Zelda

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Question 10 of 15

10. In the children's song "The Cat Came Back", the name of the yellow cat is unstated. What was its owner's name? Hint

Old MacDonald

Old Mister Johnson

Old Mister Boston

Old Mister Rogers

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Question 11 of 15

11. In whose novel will you find the Cheshire Cat with the ability to slowly (and partially) disappear? Hint

Douglas Adams

Terry Pratchett

Lewis Carroll

Hugh Lofting

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Question 12 of 15

12. In the Harry Potter series, what is the name of Hermione Granger's cat? Hint

Snidget

Scabbers

Crookshanks

Pigwidgeon

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Question 13 of 15

13. In the Don Marquis newspaper columns of the 1910s and 20s entitled "archy and mehitabel," which one was the cat?

Hint

Archy

Mehitabel

Both

Neither

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Question 14 of 15

14. Who wrote the 1985 science fiction novel "The Cat Who Walks Through Walls"? Hint

Michael Crichton

Isaac Asimov

Robert A. Heinlein

Ray Bradbury

15. "The Cat Who Could Read Backwards", "The Cat Who Came to Breakfast", "The Cat Who Talked to Ghosts", "The Cat Who Sang for the Birds" and "The Cat Who Played Brahms" are all novels in a series by which author? Hint

Lydia Adamson

Carole Nelson Douglas

Lilian Jackson Braun

D.B. Olsen

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. What was the name of the cat in the 1950 play and 1958 movie "Bell, Book and Candle"?

Answer: Pyewacket

Gillian was the female lead played by Kim Novak. Matthew Hopkins was a witchfinder general in 17th Century England. Nicky is the name of another human character played by Jack Lemmon.

2. What was the name of the ancient wise cat who had "lived many lives in succession" in T.S. Eliot's "Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats" and the musical adaptation "Cats"?

Answer: Old Deuteronomy

Leviticus is another book of the Penteteuch (the first five books of the Hebrew Bible). Eliot thought the name Carbucketty sounded like an appropriate name for "a knockabout cat." Jellicle is the name of the entire tribe of cats in the poem/play.

3. Of what breed were the twin cats in the 1955 Disney movie "Lady and the Tramp"?

Answer: Siamese

This is explained in their duet "We are Siamese if you please."

4. What is the name of the cat hanged by its owner in Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Black Cat"?

Answer: Pluto

Hades was the Greek god of the dead. Lenore is the human subject or referent in several of Poe's poems. Fortunato is the human victim in the Poe story "The Cask of Amontillado."

5. Who created the character The Cat in the Hat?

Answer: Theodor Seuss Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss

Comedic actor Mike Myers played the cat in the 2003 live-action film. The Danish fabulist H.C. Anderson died in 1875, long before this 1957 publication of this story. Sendak is the author of "Where the Wild Things Are" (1963).

6. Who wrote the poem which begins "The fat cat on the mat may seem to dream of nice mice that suffice for him, or cream"?

Answer: J.R.R. Tolkien

Lewis was the creator of Narnia. Williams wrote supernatural thrillers. Sayers wrote the Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries. All four were associated with the British literary group The Inklings.

7. Who composed the children's fairytale opera "Puss in Boots"?

Answer: C�sar Cui

Previn wrote the opera "A Streetcar named Desire." Ravel wrote the "Mother Goose Suite." Stephen Sondheim wrote "Into the Woods."

8. In 1972, Ralph Bakshi created an X-rated feature-length cartoon about a cat going to college in the 1960s. Name the cat.

Answer: Fritz

American actor Skip Hinnant provided Fritz' voice for the film. Sylvester is the cat in Warner Brothers' Looney Tunes. Top Cat appeared in the eponymous Hanna-Barbera television series.

9. In the U.S. television series "Sabrina the Teenage Witch", what is the name of the talking cat?

Answer: Salem Saberhagen

The television series is set in the fictional town of Westbridge, a suburb of Boston. The character of Sabrina's aunt Zelda Spellman is played by Beth Broderick.

10. In the children's song "The Cat Came Back", the name of the yellow cat is unstated. What was its owner's name?

Answer: Old Mister Johnson

Old MacDonald is the subject of eponymous children's song. Old Mister Boston is a brand of liquor. Fred Rogers hosted the PBS children's TV programme "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood".

11. In whose novel will you find the Cheshire Cat with the ability to slowly (and partially) disappear?

Answer: Lewis Carroll

Pratchett introduced a (distantly) related character named Greebo in his Discworld series. There was no such cat in the Lofting's Doctor Dolittle series. Douglas Adams was the author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series.

12. In the Harry Potter series, what is the name of Hermione Granger's cat?

Answer: Crookshanks

Scabbers is Ron Weasley's rat. Pigwidgeon is Ron Weasley's owl, received as a gift from Sirius Black to replace his pet rat. A snidget is an endangered species once used in the game of Quidditch but now replaced by the Golden Snitch.

13. In the Don Marquis newspaper columns of the 1910s and 20s entitled "archy and mehitabel," which one was the cat?

Answer: Mehitabel

Archy was a cockroach (who could typewrite!).

14. Who wrote the 1985 science fiction novel "The Cat Who Walks Through Walls"?

Answer: Robert A. Heinlein

Asimov was a prolific author of science fiction and popular science books. Bradbury is the author of numerous science fiction titles. Crichton was an author, television producer and motion picture director. He passed away in 2008.

Answer: Lilian Jackson Braun

Douglas wrote about Midnight Louie, a cat detective in Las Vegas. Olsen wrote the first of a series of mysteries about a feline sleuth named Samantha in 1939. Lydia Adamson is the pen name of Frank King, under which he writes a series of cat-oriented mysteries.

Source: Author FatherSteve

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