Cats that Never Really Were

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

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"? Old Jellicle Old Leviticus Old Deuteronomy Old Carbucketty

3. Of what breed were the twin cats in the 1955 Disney movie “Lady and the Tramp”? Persian Mixed breed, like Tramp Siamese Burmese

4. What is the name of the cat hanged by its owner in Edgar Allen Poe’s short story “The Black Cat”? Fortunato Hades Pluto Lenore

5. Who created the character The Cat in the Hat? Mike Myers Maurice Sendak Hans Christian Anderson Theodor Seuss Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss

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”? C.S. Lewis J.R.R. Tolkein Charles Williams Dorothy L. Sayers

7. Who composed the children’s fairytale opera “Puss in Boots”? André Previn César Cui Maurice Ravel Stephen Sondheim

8. In 1972, Ralph Bakshi created an X-rated feature-length carton about a cat going to college in the 1960s. Name the cat. Fritz Sylvester Skip Top Cat

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

10. In the children's song "The Cat Came Back", the name of the yellow cat is unstated. What was its owner’s name? Old MacDonald Old Mister Johnson Old Mister Boston Old Mister Rogers

11. In whose novel will you find the Cheshire Cat with the ability to slowly (and partially) disappear? Terry Pratchett Douglas Adams Hugh Lofting Lewis Carroll

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

13. In the Don Marquis newspaper columns of the 1910s and 20s entitled "archy and mehitabel," which one was the cat? Archy Mehitabel Both Neither

14. Who wrote the 1985 science fiction novel "The Cat Who Walks Through Walls"? Isaac Asimov Michael Crichton Ray Bradbury Robert A. Heinlein

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? Carole Nelson Douglas Lilian Jackson Braun D.B. Olsen Lydia Adamson