Can you name the cats from famous works of literature?

created by Chunklets
  • Enter a cat in the box below
  • Correctly named cats will show up below
  • Answers do not have to be guessed in order
  • Source: Wikipedia
  • Suggestions and corrections are welcome! I've (mostly) tried to stay away from the really obscure ones on this quiz.
  • This quiz has not been verified by Sporcle
07:00
Show Missed Answers  
HintCatAuthor
In the movie, John Wayne played his master.Charles Portis
Friend to a cockroach named Archy.Don Marquis
He's half-cat, half-kneazle!J.K. Rowling
He has four white paws.Beverly Cleary
He runs a scam with a group of sentient rats.Terry Pratchett
A lexicographer's cat; he has a statue in Gough Square, LondonPercival Stockdale et al.
A tiger in a boat.Yann Martel
A church cat and friend to mice.Graham Oakley
He 'does be yawning and smirking cat's hours'.James Joyce
A Scottish cat who has a near-death experience.Paul Gallico
A group of very vengeful cats.H.P. Lovecraft
His name means 'The Tiger King'.Rudyard Kipling
A Scottish witch's cat.William Shakespeare
She sailed 'in a beautiful pea green boat'.Edward Lear
'Her ears of jet, and emerald eyes/She saw: and purred applause.Thomas Gray
He's off to see a wizard.Frank Baum
He tricks an ogre into turning into a mouse.Charles Perreault
HintCatAuthor
A Lancrean witch's cat.Terry Pratchett
Crime-solving companions of a reporter (name one).Lilian Jackson Braun
He grins and vanishes.Lewis Carroll
He is accidentally walled up with a corpse.Edgar Allen Poe
A black panther.Rudyard Kipling
A passenger on the Ark.Timothy Findley
The villainous leader of the Blue Hordes.Brian Jacques
He's 'the nearest kin of the moon'.W.B. Yeats
Companion of Eatbugs and Pouncequick.Tad Williams
An 8th-century Irish monk's cat.Unknown
In Latin, he's a 'cattus petasatus'.Theodor Geisel
The brother of Mittens and Moppet.Beatrix Potter
A long-serving Iowan library cat.Vicki Myron
He buys a farm, becomes a doctor, and goes to the moonKathleen Hale
A biblically-named cat.T.S. Eliot
He's a bit too bouncy for some.A.A. Milne
Her kittens have wings.Ursula LeGuin
You might also like these games:
Harry Potter A-Z   Books by Their Covers   Harry Potter Top 200
There are 11 comments for this game.
(Warning: comments may contain spoilers)

Literary Cats Quiz

  1. by Chunklets
  • Created Jul 3, 2010 in Literature
  • Game Plays 384

Friend Scores and Standings

Loading friend results....