Yet Another Cat Who... Quiz
WARNING: The following quiz contains spoilers for all (or almost all) the Cat Who... books! If you haven't read all of the Cat Who... series, you will most certainly be spoiled (and you won't get an accurate score, either).
Ahhh..another idea for a C-Pad botched. I'd conceived the idea for this quiz in the middle of June; unfortunately, because of my usual half-horsed delaying, it's coming on the heels of the Cat Who... quiz at the new Cat Who... website Qwill's Qwizz, which makes it look an awfully lot like I copied the site's idea. I certainly didn't mean to, and absolutely no disrespect (but a great apology) is meant to the maintainer of Qwill's Qwizz. (In fact, for those of you who don't have a saint's attention span, the other quiz might be better; Qwill's Qwizz is a reasonable length with lucid questions, while this one is an interminable sucker.)
I guess, though, that there's room in the world for another Cat Who... quiz. There're 100 questions below; you'll have to open a Notepad file to record yor answers. A link to the answers and the scoring is at the end of the quiz. Have...um..."fun".
BASICS
1. Qwilleran is always proud to avow that "My mother was a"...what?
2. For what newspaper Down Below did Qwilleran work in the city books?
3. What was the favored musty old restaurant/bar/hangout for Qwilleran and his fellow staffers on said paper?
4. True or false: Qwilleran first met both Koko and Yum Yum in the same book.
5. Moose County is purported to be how many miles north of everywhere?
6. From which "relative" did Qwilleran inherit the Klingenschoen fortune?
7. For how many years did he have to live in Moose County to formally inherit the fortune?
8. If Qwill had failed to fulfill the terms of his inheritance, most of the Klingenschoen money would have gone to a red-light district in what state?
REMEMBER ME FROM...?
In which book did each of the following staple supporting characters make their first physical appearance?
9. Hixie Rice
10. Odd Bunsen
11. Amanda Goodwinter
12. Celia Robinson
13. Polly Duncan
14. Robert Maus (careful, now)
ONE-SHOTS
Name the only book in which these one-shot supporting characters appeared.
15. Clem Cottle
16. Ernie Bowen
17. Oscar Narx
18. Dolly Lessmore
19. Jack Appelhardt
20. Keestra Hedrog
21. Emory Goodwinter
22. Jacques Boulanger
23. Fiona Stucker
24. Russell Patch
HOT OFF THE PRESSES
25. What was the name of the newspaper that was the Fluxion's direct competitor Down Below?
26. By what nickname Fluxion's managing editor referred to behind his back?
27. What was the name of the crime reporter at the Fluxion?
28. How about the name of Moose County's old-fashioned "chicken-dinner paper" (as Qwill called it) that was being published when Qwill first moved to Moose County?
29. What type of special-occasion features did the above newspaper pride itself upon producing, using lavish, flowery prose and bordered layout that were "suitable for framing" for collectors?
A NASTY WAY TO GO
Name the characters who met their untimely ends through the following M.O.'s.
30. poisoned vitamins
31. multiple bee stings
32. impalement on a finial
33. impalement on deer antlers (Two characters actually died this way; name either one.)
34. lead poisoning
35. suicidal plane crash
36. suicidal car crash
37. rigged car crash
38. fell off a mountain
39. death by Sand Giant
AROUND THE WORLD IN...
Match the following locales with their distinguishing characteristics:
40. Brrr
41. Chipmunk
42. Happy View Woods
43. Lockmaster
44. Muggy Swamp
45. North Kennebeck
46. North Middle Hummock
47. Pickax
48. Spudsboro
49. Wildcat
a. approximate location of Indian Village
b. named for a runaway train that was wrecked there
c. often coldest town in Moose County
d. hotbed of environmentalist vs. developer intrigue far, far away from Moose County
e. county seat of Moose County
f. former home of the famous Tipsy
g. enclave of the rich Down Below
h. enclave of the middle-class Down Below
i. enclave of the horsey set elsewhere
j. down-and-out town of ill-repute in Moose County
MIDDLE-OF-THE-ROAD
50. What was the name of the one-man "radio-drama play" about the fires that nearly wiped out early Pickax put on Qwilleran and Hixie Rice?
51. By what name did the youthful Qwilleran call his infamously evil-eyed English teacher?
52. What was the name of the Press Club bartender in the city books?
53. Name one member of the pair of homicide detectives Qwilleran often encountered on the job in the early volumes.
54. In which book was Yum Yum kidnapped?
55. In which book did the Klingenschoen Mansion (in its original form, that is) bite the dust?
56. What fictional character served as Polly's namesake? (Hint: Think classics...)
57. What's Qwilleran's real first name?
GOOD EATS
Name the culinary individuals or restaurants renowned for the following delicacies.
58.stracciatelli alla romani, among other Italian delicacies (is proficient in other cuisines as well)
59. coconut-apricot cake, many kinds of cookies, killer macaroni-and-cheese
60. lobster bisque
61. Boozeburgers or Bearburgers, depending on the book you're reading
62. steak, fish, soup, vegetables, potatoes. And that's it.
63. Kabibbles
64. meatballs in kimonos
65. the worst coffee in Moose County
66. Embalmed bagels! Delicious toothpicks!
ADVENTURES IN...
Sort out the sordid subjects of the following exclusive Qwilleran exposés! (In other words, name the books in which Qwilleran's journalistic adventures led him into the worlds of the following fields. And don't try to get smart with me, dang it, and try to get credit by naming a book in which Qwilleran mentioned the question's topic in one line on page 165; we're looking for the books in which the topics played the most major role in the proceedings.)
67. the wacky world of modern art
68. horse-racing
69. fine dining (as in restaurants and such)
70. antiques
71. goat farming
72. interior decorating
73. architectural restoration, or the impossiblity thereof
74. the wide world of cheese
75. UFOlogy and the paranormal
PECCADILLOES
Which book...
76. was peppered with incidents of Qwilleran asking folks he met to spell their names?
77. skipped from Chapter 12 to Chapter 14?
78. was not divided by "Chapter"s?
79. had Qwilleran's actions (for the most part) broken down day-by-day, with a new, animal-related idiom heading each day?
80. opened upon an amnesiac, hallucinating Qwilleran?
81. closed with an unresolved plotline concerning a kidnap attempt on Polly?
82. began with Moose County's stunned reactions to the "death" of Jim Qwilleran?
A. GOODWINTER B. GOODWINTER C. GOODWINTER...
83. What's the name of Junior Goodwinter's wife?
a. Judy
b. Jody
c. Julie
d. Jessy
84. More Junior: where does his sister Pug live?
a. Texas
b. California
c. Montana
d. Kansas
85. What did ever happen to the notorious Ephraim Goodwinter from Moose County's mining past?
a. He was lynched.
b. He faked his own death.
c. He committed suicide.
d. He was murdered by a hired hand.
86. How many Goodwinters have bitten the dust in the course of the series?
a. 4
b. 5
c. 6
d. 7
87. Which Goodwinter belongs/belonged to the "cursed" branch of the Goodwinter family?
a. Amanda
b. Junior
c. Melinda
d. Penny
WHERE CREDIT IS DUE
88. What was the name of the short story that Braun wrote to exorcise her grief over the untimely death of her first Siamese cat?
89. In what short story collection by Braun can the above tale be found?
90. For which newspaper did Braun formerly work?
91. What reason does Braun give for her taking a hiatus from the series a while ago?
92. How long was Braun's hiatus from the series? (I'll give it to you if you get it within three years.)
93. In which state does Braun currently live?
TOUGH NUTS
94. What's the real name - the full name - of the managing editor at the Fluxion?
95. In the days when Qwilleran still smoked a pipe, what brand of tobacco did he use?
96. In the Fluxion offices, if the managing editor considered of one of his "suggestions" absolutely imperative, what color paper would the resultant memo to the unfortunate employee be written on?
97. Which supporting character was once held captive on a hijacked plane during the series?
98. What was the name of the gift shop operated by Sharon MacGillivray?
99. Before she died, Aunt Fanny promised a lot of folks that she'd bequeath them money for various projects - promises that were never actually kept in her will. Roger MacGillivray was particularly peeved that he didn't the bucks he was expecting for his little pet project - which was...?
100. All throughout The Cat Who Ate Danish Modern, Harry Noyton hints and hypes about a secret project that he's checking into in Copenhagen. It's a boon to mankind! It'll revolutionize the world! He promises Qwilleran the exclusive scoop! When Mr. Norton finally reveals his much-anticipated wünderkind, it turns out to be...?
Is that your final--::gets socked in the jaw for invoking such an overused catchphrase::
Oh, forget it, take me back to the C-pad index.
Back to the Ronald Frobnitz and Family index.
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