In Cold Blood: Part 1 Trivia Quiz

Answer: Dick Hickock and Perry Smith

George Dzundza played Detective Max Greevy on Law & Order. Clarence Duntz (begging your pardon, sir!) was part of the KBI team that arrested the murderers.

Answer: Sunday, November 15, 1959 in Holcomb, Kansas

Answer: Herbert, Bonnie, Nancy and Kenyon Clutter

Beverly and Eveanna were the surviving daughters.

Answer: True

The family had planned a Christmas wedding for Beverly and Vere English, but the murders intervened. To save all their family from making two trips, the couple wed quietly in Holcomb after the funeral.

Answer: Between $40 and $50

Based on stories from a cellmate who worked for the Clutters that Mr. Clutter went through thousands of dollars every month, the killers had expected to find a very full wall safe in the house. They didn't realize Mr. Clutter did all his business by check and the money he was referring to was the value of the crops and labor.

Answer: Susan Kidwell, Nancy Ewalt and Larry Hendricks

The Ewalts had driven over to the Clutter house so that Nancy could ride to church with the family. Spooked that the house was silent, they fetched Nancy Clutter's friend, Susan Kidwell and Larry Hendricks, a teacher who lived in her building, to look inside. Even though the doors were unlocked, Mr. Ewalt felt the Clutters wouldn't appreciate him "just barging right in." Wendell Meier was part of the sheriff's party.

Answer: Susan's father had abandoned the family

Nancy Clutter "adopted" Susan almost as soon as she arrived in Holcomb. It was only with Susan that Nancy felt comfortable discussing her family problems. The 4-H Club is an educational and service organization. It's motto is "We learn by doing," and the four H's stand for "Head, Heart, Health and Hands."

Answer: Bobby was Catholic; the Clutters were Methodist

The religious difference was of great importance. Capote describes this part of Kansas as being that part of the Bible Belt where a man took his religion seriously, if only for business purposes.

Answer: A yellow parrot

The parrot would carry him up into the sky after gouging out the eyes of the people who tortured or humiliated him. Perry hoped to join Willie Jay while on parole, but the prison chaplain wouldn't say where he'd gone. Perry O'Parsons was his nightclub performer fantasy and the snake was part of a nightmare he had.

Answer: The prisoner who informed on Dick Hickock

Floyd was stunned to hear about the murders on the radio because the details were exactly what Dick Hickock had said he was going to do and do to the Clutters. Floyd got a reward for his testimony, but his luck ran out and he was back in jail soon afterwards.

Answer: The Fort Scott post office was closed on Saturday afternoon

Perry's sister was located finally in California, not Kansas. She was terrified of him and didn't want him to know where she lived.

Answer: True

When the guilty verdict was announced, Mrs. Hickock burst into tears. While being comforted by a female reporter, she told how she had won a silver cup with a boy who could "waltz like Christmas." She wanted to point out how sweet Dick had been to waltz with his mother, since his father refused to.

Answer: He stopped to pick up another hitchhiker

The purple Cadillac was driven by a pair of prizefighters, whom Dick and Perry refused to ride with because they were black.

Answer: A radio and binoculars

That the radio was missing was noticed right away; the binoculars not until Perry told the police about them. They pawned the binoculars in Mexico.

Answer: Alvin Dewey, Clarence Duntz, Roy Church and Harold Nye

Ocie Pigford and Francis Macauley were the Las Vegas policemen who arrested Smith and Hickock after spotting their stolen car. Virgil Pietz was the highway worker who scraped away the roadside dirt to recover the killers' discarded rope, tape and shotgun shells. Roland Tate was the trial judge. Duane West was the county attorney.