How much do you really know about cats?
Cats have lived alongside people for more than nine thousand years, and the true stories about them are often stranger than the ones that get passed around online. This cat trivia quiz has twelve questions on cat genetics, behaviour, physics and history, and two of them are famous claims you have to call real or myth. Every answer comes with a short explanation and its source: a published study, an official page or a historical text.
The questions start with things many cat owners half-know, like coat colours and meowing, and move on to the stranger corners: a prize-winning physics paper, a government job title, a space flight, an ancient mourning custom, an archaeological dig and a genetics discovery. A calico sits beside a stack of books on screen, and every right answer adds a book.
Your score gives you a title: Curious Kitten (0–4), Cat Nerd (5–7), Cat Professor (8–10) or Walking Cat Encyclopedia (11–12). The result sheet walks through every question with its story, and the share card shows only your title and score, so a friend can take the quiz without spoilers.
What the quiz covers
Twelve questions, two of them real-or-myth.
Body and behaviour
- Calico cats and whether they are boys or girls
- Who grown-up cats meow at
- How a cat actually drinks
- Where cats sweat
- What cats do with an optical illusion on the floor
Science and history
- The Tesla logo and the cat-nose claim
- An Ig Nobel Prize about cats
- A cat with an official British government title
- The first cat in space
- Ancient Egyptian mourning customs, as told by Herodotus
- The oldest known grave of a person and their cat
- When the gene for orange fur was found
Your result
- Your title, from Curious Kitten to Walking Cat Encyclopedia
- How many you got right, and how many myths you busted
- The story and the source behind every answer
- A share card with your title and score, no answers
Cat trivia quiz: common questions
Is this test free? Do I need to sign up to see my result?
Yes, it’s free, and there’s nothing to sign up for: no account, no email, no payment. Your result appears on this page the moment you finish, and you can share it or play again straight away.
Are my answers saved or sent anywhere?
No. Your answers and your result stay in your browser: nothing you pick or type is sent to us. The live site counts anonymous visits (that a test was opened, how far people got, whether they finished) without any of the answers. Your latest result is kept in this browser so you can find it again, and a challenge link carries only the name of your result. If you add a photo of your cat to the share card, it is drawn on your device and never uploaded.
How long does it take, and can I play on my phone?
About 2 minutes. It works on a phone, tablet or computer in any up-to-date browser, as long as 3D graphics (WebGL) are switched on, which they are almost everywhere. Sound effects are optional: the switch is in the top corner.
What does the cat trivia quiz give me?
The cat trivia quiz gives you a title from your score out of 12: Curious Kitten (0–4), Cat Nerd (5–7), Cat Professor (8–10) or Walking Cat Encyclopedia (11–12). You also see how many of the two real-or-myth claims you called correctly. The result sheet walks through every question with the story behind the answer and its source. The share card shows only your title and score, next to the bookish calico or your own cat’s photo, and a challenge link lets a friend play without spoilers.
How is the quiz scored, and are the facts true?
Twelve questions, one point each, and the title comes straight from the total. Every answer is checked against a published study (including papers in Science and Current Biology), an official page or a historical text, and the result sheet lists each source. Where a figure is only an estimate, or a study is small, the sheet says so. The score shows how much cat trivia you happen to know; it says nothing about how well you look after a cat.
How hard is the cat trivia quiz?
The cat trivia quiz gets harder as it goes. The first questions are about things many cat owners half-know, like coat colours and meowing; later ones move into history and science, from an archaeological dig to a prize-winning physics paper, that rarely come up even after years of living with a cat. Every right answer adds a book to the calico’s stack on screen.
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