Q 01/05

Jim Davis made his star a cat after noticing the comics pages were crowded with which animals?

A) Bears

B) Dogs

C) Ducks

D) Mice

Answer · why

B) Dogs

Dogs: Davis saw Snoopy, Marmaduke and Fred Basset thriving and reasoned that if dog lovers liked dog strips, cat lovers would want a cat of their own.

Q 02/05

What Garfield novelty items kept washing up on beaches in Brittany, France, for more than 30 years?

A) Lunchboxes

B) Telephones

C) Alarm clocks

D) Piggy banks

Answer · why

B) Telephones

Telephones: the bright orange phones spilled from a shipping container lost in a storm in the early 1980s, which was only found in 2019, wedged in a s...

Q 03/05

Which comic strip about insects did Jim Davis draw before Garfield, without ever finding a syndicate?

A) Buzz Beetle

B) Cricket Corner

C) Larry the Louse

D) Gnorm Gnat

Answer · why

D) Gnorm Gnat

Gnorm Gnat: after years of rejections for his bugs, Davis shelved the strip, took a long hard look at what was selling on the comics page and came bac...

Q 04/05

Rather than a US president, Garfield the cat is named after which relative of creator Jim Davis?

A) His father

B) His grandfather

C) His uncle

D) His brother

Answer · why

B) His grandfather

His grandfather: Davis remembered James A. Garfield Davis as 'a large, cantankerous man', and the cat got his temper along with his name.

Q 05/05

Jim Davis took Jon Arbuckle's surname, as an inside joke, from an old commercial for what?

A) Cigarettes

B) Coffee

C) Dog food

D) Aftershave

Answer · why

B) Coffee

Coffee: the ad traded on the name of John Arbuckle, a 19th-century tycoon who got rich by selling roasted beans in sealed packages instead of loose fr...