Here’s one for all the cat lovers out there; These are all cat names which have appeared in either history or fiction. Name the owner or text where they appear.
1. Koko and Yum Yum
2. Pyewacket
3. Mehitabel
4. Hot Dog
5. Macavity
6. Graymalkin
7. Polar Bear
8. Hodge
9. Spot
10. Selima
Have fun. I’ll post the answers, say, Thursday.
is it ok to cheat?
Um. How’m I gonna prove it if you do? See what you can come up with on your own, first; how’s that?
Ok, it’s late so some of these will be fuzzy…
2) One of my favorite movies – Bell Book and Candle with Kim Novack and Jimmy Stewart.
3) friend of Archie, who was a cockroach that wrote poetry on a typewriter
4) Denis the Menace’s cat (but damn do I hate that cartoon, ugh)
5) TS Eliot’s poem The Naming of Cats
6) generic name of witch’s cat, historical – I want to say it comes up in Macbeth or something…
…and the others seem familiar and I’m gonna slap my forehead and go “oh yeah” when I hear where they’re from…
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Batty, you didn’t read all the way down the post…it says Thursday for the answers! đ
No, because I got all interested in the names and figuring it out and wanted to quickly type my answers before I forgot!
Yes, I am very bad. Should have read that last sentence. Thursday is a long time from now.
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Why would I be annoyed? I once tried to create an entire alphabet from the symbols in the Holmes story about “The Dancing Men,” and I spent weeks trying to learn the Elvish runes (not Daeron’s dwarvish ones) in LOTR.
1) the (evil) siamese cats in Lady and the Tramp (I think …. )
9) Spot is Data’s cat on Star Trek TNG (I *know*)
1) (second guess) … the cats in the “Cat Who ….” series of books??
8) Samuel Johnson’s “very fine cat” …
i’m done … đ
Hi Steve,
I have kinda “stolen” your quiz to put in Andy’s cat club — hope you don’t mind ?
Or will you now never speak to me again (snicker, snicker) ….
Hugs for mom & Tigger,
Monique