32 Cat Trivia Questions and Answers
Cat trivia for cat people: breeds and where they come from, famous cats of comics, cartoons, books and Downing Street, the cat goddess of ancient Egypt, and how a falling cat lands on its feet. Each question was checked against its source. The answers are printed under the questions.
There are 32 questions on this page. They are free to use for quiz nights, classrooms and pub quizzes, and each one links to its own page.
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1.What is the scientific name of the domestic cat?
Answer: Felis catus
Open this question2.Which goddess of ancient Egyptian religion was increasingly depicted as a cat?
Answer: Bastet
Open this question3.What is the name of the sound a cat makes continuously while breathing in and out, with noticeable vibrations?
Answer: Purring
Open this question4.Which plant of the mint family, also called catmint, is named for its historical association with cats?
Answer: Catnip
Open this question5.Which tailless cat breed comes from the Isle of Man?
Answer: Manx
Open this question6.Which cat breed is named for its ears that bend forward and down?
Answer: Scottish Fold
Open this question7.Which comic-strip cat is known for his sarcasm, laziness and particular affinity for lasagna?
Answer: Garfield
Open this question8.Who created the comic strip Garfield?
Answer: Jim Davis
Open this question9.Which grinning cat appears in Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland?
Answer: The Cheshire Cat
Open this question10.Which Andrew Lloyd Webber musical features the song "Memory"?
Answer: Cats
Open this question11.Which Looney Tunes cat is often seen chasing Tweety?
Answer: Sylvester
Open this question12.Which fairy-tale cat uses trickery to win his penniless master the hand of a princess?
Answer: Puss in Boots
Open this question13.Which tabby cat became Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office in 2011?
Answer: Larry
Open this question14.Which wild cat is the domestic cat thought to have descended from?
Answer: The African wildcat
Open this question15.Which film follows the mother cat Duchess and her three kittens in Paris in 1910?
Answer: The Aristocats
Open this question16.Which Japanese company owns the character Hello Kitty?
Answer: Sanrio
Open this question17.Catwoman is the alter ego of which Gotham City burglar?
Answer: Selina Kyle
Open this question18.What is the name of a cat's innate ability to orient itself as it falls so that it lands on its feet?
Answer: The righting reflex
Open this question19.Which large feline of the Americas is also called the puma, mountain lion and panther?
Answer: Cougar
Open this question20.Which fictional cat has the nicknames the Mystery Cat, the Hidden Paw and the Napoleon of Crime?
Answer: Macavity
Open this question21.What is a female cat called?
Answer: A queen
Open this question22.Which cat breed is known for its lack of a coat of fur?
Answer: Sphynx
Open this question23.Which pedigreed cat breed is characterised by a solid blue coat?
Answer: Russian Blue
Open this question24.Which cat breed was developed from hybrids of domestic cats and the Asian leopard cat?
Answer: Bengal
Open this question25.Which Dr. Seuss character is a tall cat in a red and white-striped hat?
Answer: The Cat in the Hat
Open this question26.What is the name of Geppetto's cat in Disney's Pinocchio?
Answer: Figaro
Open this question27.Which actor voiced Puss in Boots in the Shrek films?
Answer: Antonio Banderas
Open this question28.Which Disney film features the Siamese cats Si and Am?
Answer: Lady and the Tramp
Open this question29.What is the name of Hermione Granger's cat in the Harry Potter books?
Answer: Crookshanks
Open this question30.What is the name of the American Shorthair cat who lives with Sabrina Spellman in Sabrina the Teenage Witch?
Answer: Salem Saberhagen
Open this question31.Which Japanese figurine of a cat is often believed to bring good luck to its owner?
Answer: Maneki-neko
Open this question32.Which physicist devised the thought experiment of a cat that may be both alive and dead?
Answer: Erwin Schrödinger
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