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The residents of the Bastet Home for Retired and Indigent Gentlecats are eagerly awaiting letters from their feline friends and relatives out in Bookland. Can you work out who is writing to them?

A multiple-choice quiz by Rowena8482. Estimated time: 7 mins.
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Author
Rowena8482
Time
7 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
323,845
Updated
Dec 03 21
# Qns
10
Difficulty
Tough
Avg Score
6 / 10
Plays
551
Question 1 of 10
1. Petronius the Arbiter and Dr-Livingston-I-Presume are having a nice cup of tea and a fish stick, and discussing the latest postcard from their little friend, created by the same author as them.
"I don't know" said Pete, "We never walked through walls in my day! And all he ever says is Blert! I had a proper time machine for my travels - one way anyway..."
"We took the whole house with us" replied Doc, "Much more the way to travel"
How would the postcard be signed?
Hint


Question 2 of 10
2. The Cheshire Cat, and his imaginary friend the Unitary Authority of Warrington Cat, were at the gate, eagerly awaiting the postcat bringing their weekly missive and cake parcel from Alice's cat.
How would it be signed?
Hint


Question 3 of 10
3. The Count d'Gribeau adjusted his eyepatch and idly scratched his scarred face as he tried to make out the rather shaky and badly spelled message on the gift tag of the parcel which just arrived for him.
"Happy Birfday Greebo you big softy. Have sent sum bananananananas and a fruit drink made of apples, well mostly apples."
How would this card be signed?
Hint


Question 4 of 10
4. Sitting out in the garden in deckchairs, an elderly lion and his "Honest Keeper" tucked in to "tea and cakes and jam, and slices of delicious ham. And chocolate with pink inside".
"You really should apologise you know old chap" said the Honest Keeper.
"After all this time? I *had* to do it, it was how I was written" said the lion.
"Small boys always gave me indigestion", he added, applying a toothpick to his upper right fang.
"I got a nice card for his mother", said the Honest Keeper, "just sign it here and I'll send it off to her".
How would this card be signed?
Hint


Question 5 of 10
5. Blackmalkin, Greymalkin, and Nibbins were discussing Shakespeare when the postcat arrived. Their long awaited tickets to a performance of the play featuring the 'original' Shakespearean Gray-Malkin had arrived, sent by the title character in person.
How would the covering letter be signed?
Hint


Question 6 of 10
6. Two small cats were playing happily with a ball of yarn on the lawn.
"You trod on my paw again!" said one.
"That's because I can't see you," said the other, "you're made of glass!"
"Better glass than pink!" came the rather snippy reply.
The last time these two got a letter it was from the main canine character from their series of books, and postmarked in the United States. How would it be signed?
Hint


Question 7 of 10
7. On the hall table there is a letter addressed to General Stirling Price, with "forwarded by Mattie" written in one corner. The return address shows it appears to have been sent by a bird! (and a certain lingering aroma leads us to believe it may well have been an inebriated bird!)
Can this be? A cat and a bird getting on well together? Perhaps the bird used to exhort the cat to "drink your milk"...
If we could see the salutation on this letter, what would it say?
Hint


Question 8 of 10
8. A sudden drop in temperature causes all the residents to shiver slightly. Nobody likes to admit that the Bastet Home for Retired and Indigent Gentlecats may be haunted by a ghostly feline, prowling the rooms searching for a long gone fishbowl...
Having called "Ghostbusters", the residents receive a card from the author who wrote about Selima, begging them to reconsider, as she was a gentle tabby who was much loved in her lifetime, and only passed away due to the tragic "incident with the goldfish bowl".
How would this letter from Selima's author be signed?
Hint


Question 9 of 10
9. Although not usually known for their consideration of others, some cats are diligent in replying promptly to their mail. Three psychic cats who feature alongside Charlie Bone in his series of books by Jenny Nimmo make a point of answering all Charlie's letters by return of post. Which of these signatures would NOT be on one of their letters to Charlie? Hint


Question 10 of 10
10. Abelard cat stretched out in a hammock in the shade, and once again considered his good fortune in being written into his author's first novel, several years before she wrote about all those dogs! Imagine it, the only cat among 101 dogs...
He wondered where his human was, probably sitting with her feet in the kitchen sink again... then yawned and fell asleep.
If only Abelard had spotted the note under his pillow, telling him his human had gone to watch her sister being married, how would it have been signed?
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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. Petronius the Arbiter and Dr-Livingston-I-Presume are having a nice cup of tea and a fish stick, and discussing the latest postcard from their little friend, created by the same author as them. "I don't know" said Pete, "We never walked through walls in my day! And all he ever says is Blert! I had a proper time machine for my travels - one way anyway..." "We took the whole house with us" replied Doc, "Much more the way to travel" How would the postcard be signed?

Answer: Yours Truly, Pixel

Pixel is "The Cat Who Walks Through Walls" in the 1985 novel by Robert A. Heinlein. Petronius the Arbiter, or Pete as he is known, appears in "The Door into Summer" from 1957. Dr-Livingston-I-Presume is the family cat from Heinlein's controversial 1964 novel "Farnham's Freehold".
Captain Blood and Princess Polly Ponderosa Penelope Peachfuzz appear in "To Sail Beyond the Sunset", first published in 1988.
There are literally dozens of cats in Heinlein's works, and most of them are characters and "people" in their own right.
2. The Cheshire Cat, and his imaginary friend the Unitary Authority of Warrington Cat, were at the gate, eagerly awaiting the postcat bringing their weekly missive and cake parcel from Alice's cat. How would it be signed?

Answer: Yours Truly, Dinah

Dinah is Alice's pet, and appears in both "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There", by Lewis Carroll. They were first published in 1865 and 1871 respectively.
The term "Unitary Authority of Warrington Cat" was coined by Jasper Fforde in his "Thursday Next" series of books. The first volume, "The Eyre Affair" was first published in 2001.
3. The Count d'Gribeau adjusted his eyepatch and idly scratched his scarred face as he tried to make out the rather shaky and badly spelled message on the gift tag of the parcel which just arrived for him. "Happy Birfday Greebo you big softy. Have sent sum bananananananas and a fruit drink made of apples, well mostly apples." How would this card be signed?

Answer: Yours Truly, Nanny

Greebo is one of the roughest, toughest, meanest, most vicious cats ever written. To his owner Nanny Ogg though, he is just a little cute fluffy kitten who wouldn't harm a fly.
The Count d'Gribeau is Greebo in human form, which he sometimes assumes by accident after Nanny and Granny used magic to change him once when they "needed a man"!
Nanny, Granny, Magrat, Ridcully, and Greebo can all be found in the "Discworld" novels by Terry Pratchett.
4. Sitting out in the garden in deckchairs, an elderly lion and his "Honest Keeper" tucked in to "tea and cakes and jam, and slices of delicious ham. And chocolate with pink inside". "You really should apologise you know old chap" said the Honest Keeper. "After all this time? I *had* to do it, it was how I was written" said the lion. "Small boys always gave me indigestion", he added, applying a toothpick to his upper right fang. "I got a nice card for his mother", said the Honest Keeper, "just sign it here and I'll send it off to her". How would this card be signed?

Answer: Yours Truly, Ponto

Ponto is the lion from Hilaire Belloc's poem "Jim", found in his "Cautionary Tales for Children", first published in 1907.
Wallace is from "The Lion and Albert", written in 1932 by Marriot Edgar, so has also been known to snack on a small boy now and again. :-D
Elsa is of course the lioness from Joy Adamson's "Born Free" (1960), and Clarence was the cross eyed lion in the TV show "Daktari", first aired from 1966 - 69 in the United States.
5. Blackmalkin, Greymalkin, and Nibbins were discussing Shakespeare when the postcat arrived. Their long awaited tickets to a performance of the play featuring the 'original' Shakespearean Gray-Malkin had arrived, sent by the title character in person. How would the covering letter be signed?

Answer: Yours Truly, Macbeth

Blackmalkin, Greymalkin and Nibbins are the witches cats from "The Midnight Folk" by John Masefield, first published in 1927. Grey-Malkin appears alongside the three witches in "Macbeth", and the name Greymalkin or Grimalkin came to be associated with witch's familiars.
6. Two small cats were playing happily with a ball of yarn on the lawn. "You trod on my paw again!" said one. "That's because I can't see you," said the other, "you're made of glass!" "Better glass than pink!" came the rather snippy reply. The last time these two got a letter it was from the main canine character from their series of books, and postmarked in the United States. How would it be signed?

Answer: Yours Truly, Toto

The Glass Cat is from "The Patchwork Girl of Oz", and Eureka the pink kitten belongs to Dorothy Gale in "Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz".
The original "Oz" books, by L. Frank Baum, were first published between 1900 and 1920. Many other books set in the Land of Oz have been written since then, by other authors.
7. On the hall table there is a letter addressed to General Stirling Price, with "forwarded by Mattie" written in one corner. The return address shows it appears to have been sent by a bird! (and a certain lingering aroma leads us to believe it may well have been an inebriated bird!) Can this be? A cat and a bird getting on well together? Perhaps the bird used to exhort the cat to "drink your milk"... If we could see the salutation on this letter, what would it say?

Answer: Yours Truly, Rooster

Before it was a film starring John Wayne, "True Grit" was a novel written by Charles Portis. Originally published in serial form in an evening newspaper, it was novelised and then the screen play was written in 1969. John Wayne won an Oscar for his portrayal of Reuben 'Rooster' Cogburn in the film.
In the book, General Stirling Price is Rooster Cogburn's cat.
8. A sudden drop in temperature causes all the residents to shiver slightly. Nobody likes to admit that the Bastet Home for Retired and Indigent Gentlecats may be haunted by a ghostly feline, prowling the rooms searching for a long gone fishbowl... Having called "Ghostbusters", the residents receive a card from the author who wrote about Selima, begging them to reconsider, as she was a gentle tabby who was much loved in her lifetime, and only passed away due to the tragic "incident with the goldfish bowl". How would this letter from Selima's author be signed?

Answer: Yours Truly, Thomas Gray

Thomas Gray wrote "Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat Drowned in a Tub of Goldfishes" in 1742. Selima belonged to Horace Walpole, the 4th Earl of Oxford.
The film "Ghostbusters", starring Bill Murray and Sigourney Weaver, was released in 1984 and was responsible for the phrase "Who ya gonna call?" passing into English vernacular. :-D
9. Although not usually known for their consideration of others, some cats are diligent in replying promptly to their mail. Three psychic cats who feature alongside Charlie Bone in his series of books by Jenny Nimmo make a point of answering all Charlie's letters by return of post. Which of these signatures would NOT be on one of their letters to Charlie?

Answer: Yours Truly, Gemini

The first book in the "Children of the Red King" series is "Midnight for Charlie Bone" which was first published in 2002, and the eighth and final volume "Charlie Bone and the Red Knight", was published in 2009.
10. Abelard cat stretched out in a hammock in the shade, and once again considered his good fortune in being written into his author's first novel, several years before she wrote about all those dogs! Imagine it, the only cat among 101 dogs... He wondered where his human was, probably sitting with her feet in the kitchen sink again... then yawned and fell asleep. If only Abelard had spotted the note under his pillow, telling him his human had gone to watch her sister being married, how would it have been signed?

Answer: Yours Truly, Cassandra Mortmain

"I Capture the Castle" was written in 1948, and was Dodie Smith's first novel. She went on to write "The Hundred and One Dalmatians", and its sequel "The Starlight Barking", in 1956 and 1967 respectively.
Anne Shirley and Emily Starr appear in the novels of L.M. Montgomery, and Laura Ingalls, later Wilder, was of course an actual author, not a fictional character.
Source: Author Rowena8482

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