Time to check your knowledge again.

Last week, we promised to give the kitties a turn at the Post Quiz. Clancy insisted. He was pretty loud about it.

'Do you want me to talk about famous cats, like I talked about famous dogs?' I asked. He was contemptuous in a particularly feline way.

'Cats don't NEED to be famous,' he replied. 'Cats are gods.' Well, okay, Mr I-Can't-Open-the Catfood-by-Myself-So-You'd-Better Do-It-NOW. You've got it.

The rest of you will just have to answer the questions. Cats RULE.

1. If a cat is nine years old, how long has it actually been awake?
2. Why is a bezoar something you don't want on your rug?
3. Who has a bigger vocal vocabulary – dogs or cats?
4. Is a cat's brain biologically more similar to a dog's, or a human's?
5. Where was the oldest pet cat grave found?
6. The Spanish Inquisition was mean to cats. How did nature get revenge?
7. We know about Laika, the Russian cosmonaut pup. What country sent a cat into space?
8. How did Abraham Lincoln upset Ulysses S Grant and Admiral Porter on the eve of a major Civil War battle?
9. What did an ancient Egyptian do to mourn the death of his pet cat?
10. In ancient Egypt, it was illegal – under pain of death – to export cats. So how did all those cats get to Athens?

Think you know your moggies? Then do like Clancy would: put a paw on the ball of yarn and find out the answers.

Curiosity may have killed the cat, but it won't hurt you.

Dmitri Gheorgheni

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