#1. The ultimate "cat" book of British literature "Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats" (1939) features quite a few of cats, one of them being a literary allusion to professor Moriarty from T. S. Eliot's favourite Sherlock Holmes stories.
#2. "Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland" published in 1865 featues a famous cat who can disappear in stages until just a smile is left. The idiom "grin like a Cheshire cat"...
https://grammarist.com/idiom/grin-like-a-cheshire-cat/#:~:text=The idiom grin like a,Lewis Carroll, published in 1865.&text=To grin like a Cheshire,as to expose the gums.
#3. Cheshire cat is the only cat mentioned in "Alice's Adventures..." True or false?
Alice mentions Dinah, her pet cat, frequently.
#4. In the books of Beatrix Potter, Mrs. Tabitha Twitchit is a mother cat who has three kittens. Which one of these is not one of her kitten?
Samuel Whiskers is, in fact, a rat.
#5. The Owl and the Pussy-Cat come from a nonsence poem by Edward Lear, the last portion of which is less widely known. After acquiring a ring from a pig they are "married next day by..." Who married them?
#6. "But the wildest of all the wild animals was the Cat. He walked by himself, and all places were alike to him." This archetypal cat features in the story by Rudyard Kipling. According to the bargain the Woman made with the Cat, she had to thank him three times so that he could come and lap the warm milk. What did the Cat do to deserve the third praise?
Cat made one jump and caught the little mouse, and the Woman said, ‘A hundred thanks. Even the First Friend is not quick enough to catch little mice as you have done. You must be very wise.’
http://www.boop.org/jan/justso/cat.htm
#7. A 1957 book by Dr. Seuss "The Cat in the Hat" only uses 236 different words because...
Theodor Geisel (Dr.Seuss) later told biographers Judith and Neil Morgan that Spaulding had supplied him with a list of 348 words that every six-year-old should know and insisted that the book’s vocabulary be limited to 225 words. However, Geisel gave varying numbers in interviews from 1964 to 1969. He variously claimed that he could use between 200 and 250 words from a list of between 300 and 400; the finished book contains 236 different words.
(Wikipedia)
#8. The more recent "Harry Potter" series have their feline favourites, too. Not all cats in the books are your ordinary felines, of course, but some are. One of them is in the following list.
Here, only Mrs Norris, the pet cat of Argus Filch, the caretaker, is your “mark one” pure-breed feline.
https://harrypotter.fandom.com/wiki/Cat#Known_cats
#9. There are a lot of stories, which attempt to represent a cat’s independent point of view. One of the earlier ones is the story of four lives of a Slum cat that turned into a Royal Analostan (fake breed) published in 1905 in US by...
First published in 1905, “Animal Heroes” is a fantastic collection of short animal stories written and illustrated by Ernest Thompson Seton.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1122688.Animal_Heroes
#10. Tobermory is not just the capital of the Isle of Mull in the Scottish Inner Hebrides. British writer Saki (H.H.Munro) named a cat after it. The cat whom his owners decide to kill because...
Deciding that he cannot be kept alive now he’s acquired this new gift of speech – as he’ll reveal everyone’s secrets – they resolve to have him ‘destroyed’ by lacing the food scraps Tobermory eats with some strychnine. However, although Tobermory dies, he meets his end not by ingesting the poison but by being mortally wounded in a fight with his deadly nemesis, the big Tom from the Rectory.
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