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Quiz about Dorothy L Sayers Montague Egg
Quiz about Dorothy L Sayers Montague Egg

Dorothy L Sayers' Montague Egg Quiz


Dorothy L Sayers, who created Lord Peter Wimsey, also wrote a number of stories about Montague Egg. Why not give this quiz a whirl? After all, as Monty would say, "Don't let the smallest chance slip by; you never know until you try." Warning - Spoilers!

A multiple-choice quiz by agony. Estimated time: 4 mins.
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Author
agony
Time
4 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
175,088
Updated
Dec 03 21
# Qns
10
Difficulty
Average
Avg Score
7 / 10
Plays
431
Awards
Top 20% Quiz
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Question 1 of 10
1. Montague Egg is a commercial traveller, or "travelling representative" - what product does he sell? Hint


Question 2 of 10
2. What company is Monty a salesman for? Hint


Question 3 of 10
3. How does Monty Egg deal with any conflict or decision in his life? Hint


Question 4 of 10
4. In "The Poisoned Dow '08", the victim had been given some poisoned port wine. How is the poison introduced into the wine? Hint


Question 5 of 10
5. In "Sleuths on the Scent", we know that the murderer is a man who has been trained in pharmacy. How does he give himself away? Hint


Question 6 of 10
6. "Murder at Pentecost" takes place at Oxford University. What Oxford landmark plays a prominent part in the mystery? Hint


Question 7 of 10
7. In the story "A Shot at Goal", the solution to the mystery (the murder of a wealthy mill-owner) hinges upon what common mistake? Hint


Question 8 of 10
8. Several Montague Egg mysteries hinge upon time and clocks for their solution. In "Dirt Cheap", Monty is staying at an inferior inn when the murder of a fellow commercial traveller occurs. What is the time-related solution to the mystery? Hint


Question 9 of 10
9. In the story "Maher-shalal-hashbaz", Montague Egg does a good turn for a young girl, and finds himself involved in a particularly nasty murder. Who IS Maher-shalal-hashbaz? Hint


Question 10 of 10
10. What gives the solution to the mystery in the story "False Weight", a tale of the murder of a commercial traveller who takes advantage of his job to indulge in a bit of bigamy? Hint



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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. Montague Egg is a commercial traveller, or "travelling representative" - what product does he sell?

Answer: Wines and spirits

Monty's expertise in the wine and spirits line leads to the solution of two mysteries, "The Poisoned Dow '08", and "Bitter Almonds".
2. What company is Monty a salesman for?

Answer: Plummet and Rose

Montague Egg is not the only detective of the period to be a seller of wines. H. Warner Allen created his detective William Clerihew in 1930 for the story "Tokay of the Comet Year". Clerihew later appeared in several novels.
3. How does Monty Egg deal with any conflict or decision in his life?

Answer: recites rhyming couplets

The maxims from the "Salesman's Handbook" sustain Monty through every problem that comes up. After all, "The salesman who will use his brains will spare himself a world of pains."
4. In "The Poisoned Dow '08", the victim had been given some poisoned port wine. How is the poison introduced into the wine?

Answer: through a hollow corkscrew

Monty feels some urgency to solve this crime. After all, to have a customer die after drinking some of their port does not reflect well on his employers. "Not but what the wine was wholesome enough when we sent it out...But it's not the sort of publicity we care for."
5. In "Sleuths on the Scent", we know that the murderer is a man who has been trained in pharmacy. How does he give himself away?

Answer: his characteristic method of opening a flask stopper

"'There's only one way I know of to take out stoppers, and that's to take 'em out. What d'you expect me to do? Whistle 'em out?' 'You do it that way because you aren't accustomed to measuring and pouring with one hand while the other's occupied. But a doctor or a chemist pulls the stopper out with his little finger, like this, and lifts the bottle in the same hand, holding the measuring-glass in his left, so -'".
6. "Murder at Pentecost" takes place at Oxford University. What Oxford landmark plays a prominent part in the mystery?

Answer: The Bodleian Library

The murderer establishes an alibi by taking out a "Phi" book ("a book deemed by Bodley's Librarian to be of an indelicate nature", which has to be signed out), and retiring to his "usual corner of Duke Humphrey's Library". He there disguises himself as a woman, walks out, commits the murder, returns, and changes back into his own clothes.
7. In the story "A Shot at Goal", the solution to the mystery (the murder of a wealthy mill-owner) hinges upon what common mistake?

Answer: a spelling error

A scrap of paper, torn from a letter, with the words "should be in goal" was found clutched in the victim's hand. This threw suspicion on the goaltender of the mill's football team, who had recently been replaced. Monty, however, discovered that the words should have been "should be in GAOL", which pointed to the true culprit.

This was the father of a man whose invention had been appropriated by the thieving mill owner. Monty always uses the spelling "jail", himself, to avoid these little mix-ups.
8. Several Montague Egg mysteries hinge upon time and clocks for their solution. In "Dirt Cheap", Monty is staying at an inferior inn when the murder of a fellow commercial traveller occurs. What is the time-related solution to the mystery?

Answer: two clocks have a similar-sounding chime

Monty almost gives the murderer an alibi when he swears he heard the kitchen clock chiming midnight when the murder occurred. Luckily he discovers his mistake before the murderer can get away.
9. In the story "Maher-shalal-hashbaz", Montague Egg does a good turn for a young girl, and finds himself involved in a particularly nasty murder. Who IS Maher-shalal-hashbaz?

Answer: a cat

Monty helps the girl and her cat answer an odd newspaper ad: "Wanted: hard-working, capable Cat to keep down mice in pleasant villa residence and be companion to middle-aged couple. Ten shillings and good home to suitable applicant. Apply to Mr John Doe..." It turns out that Mr and Mrs "John Doe" are gathering dozens of cats, to frighten their old, cat-hating, uncle to death so they can inherit his money.
10. What gives the solution to the mystery in the story "False Weight", a tale of the murder of a commercial traveller who takes advantage of his job to indulge in a bit of bigamy?

Answer: the weights in a grandfather clock

The brother of one of the victim's "wives" is the main suspect, but Monty solves the mystery, and shows that the salesman was killed for the contents of his travelling bag.
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