Orange Cats are Red, Gray Cats are Blue

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1. The color effect produced by individual hairs with contrasting light and dark banding along each hair shaft is called which? cameo shaded ticked striped

2. Tabby is the name given to a striped coat. Several types of tabby pattern occur both in domestic cats and in their wild relatives. What tabby pattern is most frequently seen in wild species of cat? Classic Spotted Blotched Mackerel (narrow stripes)

3. I have a calico cat whose coat is attractively patterned with auburn and black patches. Which is most likely to be true? The cat is probably female. The cat is pedigreed. The cat is most likely the offspring of a red mother and a black father. The cat is a Persian.

4. These cat breeds have only one recognized color, with one exception. Which? Turkish Angora Chartreux Bombay Havana

5. The Peke-faced Persian cat has an extremely flattened face and a tiny nose actually depressed between the eyes. It was selectively bred from unusually short-faced Persians. Although Persian cats may have any colored coat, Peke-faces have only a limited number of acceptable colors. True False

6. A ticked coat pattern is acceptable in a Sphynx cat. True False

7. A white cat with colored patches on the ears and tail is said to have what type of coat pattern? tuxedo Siamese van tortie-and-white

8. A coat in which each hair is light-colored at its base but darkens toward its tip is called... shaded tabby brindled striped

9. Winston Churchill was comforted in his last years by his beloved cat Jock. In his will, he left his home to the state as a museum, and specified that a cat named Jock should always live there. He also wanted the cats to look like the first Jock, including their color. What color? Answer: (one word (it's in the quiz title.))

10. Brown, brown, brown! No tabby, no ticking, no fooling around! Burmese Havana Korat Bombay