Mulder Cats
Children's Literature
Hippos
The Muppets
Mesopotamia
100
This is the name of the Mulder family's black cat.
What is "Hamlet"?
100
This character is the best-known creation of Jean de Brunhoff.
Who is Babar?
100
This is the name of the Egyptian hippo who serves at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's unofficial mascot.
What is William?
100
This muppet plays Charles Dickens in The Muppet Christmas Carol.
Who is Gonzo?
100
This script, developed in ancient Sumer, is the oldest known system of writing.
What is cuneiform?
200
This is the current number of cats in the Mulder household.
What is eight? (Or: What is "far too many"?)
200
This is "Alice in Wonderland" author Lewis Carroll's real name.
Who is Charles Lutwidge Dodgson?
200
This is the name of the Cincinnati Zoo's celebrity hippo.
What is Fiona?
200
He was the puppeteer and voice of Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear, and Sam the Eagle.
Who is Frank Oz?
200
The law code of this Babylonian ruler is now housed in the Louvre.
Who is Hammurabi?
300
These two cats are the only ones we currently have that we adopted from the Humane Society.
Who are Avril and Oliver?
300
He was the author of the original Nutcracker novella.
Who is E.T.A. Hoffmann?
300
This is the literal meaning of "hippopotamus" in Greek.
What is "river horse"?
300
This muppet's uncle owned the Muppet Show theater.
Who is Scooter?
300
The British archaeologist Max Mallowan was married to this famous author.
Who is Agatha Christie?
400
This cat was found and adopted while Grandma was staying with us.
Who is Eowyn?
400
This author is the winner of the 2017 Caldecott award.
Who is Javaka Steptoe?
400
This is one of the names for a group of hippos.
What is a bloat or a pod?
400
These are the names of three members of The Electric Mayhem band.
What are Dr. Teeth, Floyd, Janice, Animal, and Zoot?
400
This empire, possibly the first in human history, was created by Sargon the Great in the late third millennium BCE.
What is the Akkadian Empire?
500
This is Sofie the kitten's full name.
What is Sofonisba Anguissola?
500
These are all the titles, in order, of the books in Lemony Snicket's "A Series of Unfortunate Events."
What are: (1) The Bad Beginning, (2) The Reptile Room, (3) The Wide Window, (4) The Miserable Mill, (5) The Austere Academy, (6) The Vile Village, (7) The Ersatz Elevator, (8) The Hostile Hospital, (9) The Carnivorous Carnival, (10) The Slippery Slope, (11) The Grim Grotto, (12) The Penultimate Peril, and (13) The End?
500
This Egyptian goddess combined features of a hippo and a crocodile.
Who is Tawaret?
500
This famous ballet dancer performed "Swine Lake" as a Muppet guest star.
Who is Rudolph Nureyev?
500
Leonard Woolley discovered the royal cemetery of this great Mesopotamian city.
What is Ur?