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Linda Howard is the pseudonym used by Linda Howington for her romance/suspense novels. She became a charter member (in 1981) of Romance Writers of America, and received a Career Achievement Award from that group in 2005.
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  "Mr Perfect" by Linda Howard   best quiz  
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Linda Howard is one of my favourite authors, and seeing that there are no quizzes on her I thought that I would create a quiz on what I think is her best book "Mr Perfect".
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  "All the Queen's Men" by Linda Howard   best quiz  
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"All the Queen's Men" by Linda Howard. SPOILER: please read the book as this quiz does have information on the plot and outcome. Enjoy!
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  Linda Howard's "Kill and Tell"   great trivia quiz  
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If you enjoyed Linda Howard's book, this test should be a breeze! Enjoy!
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All four of the list ladies are employed at the same company; Leah Street is also an employee. What is the name of the company?

From Quiz ""Mr Perfect" by Linda Howard"




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Linda Howard Trivia Questions
1. When and where was the first time Neima Burdock met John Medina?

From Quiz "All the Queen's Men" by Linda Howard

Answer: 1994, Iran

Neima first met Medina in Iran in 1994. Neima, her husband Dallas and Darrell Tucker (an alias for John Medina) were on a mission to destroy a factory that was creating biological warfare material that was being distributed to terrorists.

2. Who are the four main female characters? They are also the four women responsible for the creation of the list.

From Quiz "Mr Perfect" by Linda Howard

Answer: Jaine, TJ, Luna and Marci

The four friends Jaine, TJ, Luna and Marci all work for the same company and have a traditional Friday meeting for something to eat and drinks after work. This particular "meeting" is the basis of the book because this is the night that the list for the "perfect man" was created.

3. Dexter Whitlaw is presumed to be a homeless man in the beginning, but after his homicide Detective Chastain finds out he was in the military. Who was his killer?

From Quiz Linda Howard's "Kill and Tell"

Answer: Rick Medina

In an interesting twist, both Whitlaw and Medina were in the army at the same time, until Medina was hired to kill Whitlaw after he went rogue. Unfortunately, Medina was murdered mere seconds after killing Whitlaw.

4. After her husband was killed in the destruction of the biological warfare factory, Tucker/Medina attempts to distract Neima by telling her a story about his childhood dog. What is his dog's name?

From Quiz "All the Queen's Men" by Linda Howard

Answer: Fifi

Medina said that his dog was Fifi. She had a long, skinny body like a dachshund, with a curly coat like a poodle. He named the dog Fifi because that is what he thought all poodle type dogs were named. This amazing dog could open doors, climb trees, really ate his homework once, loved fruit loops, was ugly, and she never existed.

5. Corin's mother and Leah's mother are?

From Quiz "Mr Perfect" by Linda Howard

Answer: the same woman

At the beginning of the book we are introduced to Mrs. Whitcomb, Corin's mother. Later it is discovered that Corin and Leah are the same person. Mrs. Whitcomb insisted that her child was male and introduced everyone to her son, Corin. Leah is the name that she picked for herself, after she was allowed to live as a female.

6. Also in the beginning of the book, Karen was returning home from work when she noticed that she had a package from Dexter. Why did she not open it?

From Quiz Linda Howard's "Kill and Tell"

Answer: Dexter abandoned Karen and her mother

After Dexter came back from the war, he began to drift in and out of their lives. When he mailed the package, it was for her mother but Jeannette had passed away three weeks earlier. Reeling from grief and hurt, Karen put the package away unopened.

7. Who are Jacqueline and Sid?

From Quiz "All the Queen's Men" by Linda Howard

Answer: Neima's fake parents

Jacqueline and Sid are the "fake parents" of Neima Jamieson. After Neima agreed to rejoin Medina in another mission, he created an alternative personality for her, including fake parents. These "parents" were friends of the ambassador and his wife, who asked Neima to visit them at the embassy, so that she could be introduced to Ronsard. While Neima was visiting the ambassador and his wife, her "parents" were on an extended vacation in Australia.

8. Why did Detective Marc Chastain dislike Karen at first?

From Quiz Linda Howard's "Kill and Tell"

Answer: He thought she turned her father out onto the streets.

Of all the homeless American citizens, more than a third suffer from mental and physical disabilities. Rather than deal with these issues, a lot of the relatives choose to send the disabled away and this is what Chastain believed Karen had done.

9. What password finally allowed Medina into Ronsard's computer?

From Quiz "All the Queen's Men" by Linda Howard

Answer: Tumbrils

Ronsard chose his passwords from "A Tale of Two Cities," he would frequently change his password. His method of choosing a password was to find the word and fold down the page that the word was on and leave the book lying on the desk as if it had no real significance. Medina first tried Laure, Ronsard's daughter, as well as Guillotine and Monarch; the correct password was Tumbrils.

10. What word would send the four women into fits of laughter while they were at the restaurant? (While they were creating the list)

From Quiz "Mr Perfect" by Linda Howard

Answer: leftovers

In the list it was discussed what the perfect man would be like. Faithfulness, nice, dependable as well as financial qualifications were discussed. Along with these other qualifications the "list ladies" discussed the physical attributes of the perfect man. Janie said that anything over a certain amount of inches would be "leftovers".

11. When Carl Clancy broke into Karen's apartment, what did she defend herself with?

From Quiz Linda Howard's "Kill and Tell"

Answer: A can of hairspray

She managed to blind him with the hairspray and escape into the hallway, where two responding officers shot and killed him.

12. Jaine's neighbour Sam, comes and goes at all hours of the day, he appears to be unshaven and dirty and usually has bloodshot eyes. At first Jaine thought he was a drunk; what does Sam do for a living?

From Quiz "Mr Perfect" by Linda Howard

Answer: Task Force Police Officer

Jaine believes that Sam is a drunk, he is always arriving home and leaving at different times. His car, she thinks, is very loud and in need of a muffler. She is shocked when she tells him to go have another drink, and he informs her that he is a cop.

13. When Jess McPherson managed to see Marc Chastain about the deaths of Medina and Whitlaw, Chastain asked him was he "satellites or pickles." Jess responded "pickles." To what/whom was he referring to?

From Quiz Linda Howard's "Kill and Tell"

Answer: His job with the CIA

Apparently, the CIA got the nickname "pickle" because they were always in a pickle, get it?

14. Why did Ronsard become an illegal arms dealer?

From Quiz "All the Queen's Men" by Linda Howard

Answer: for his daughter

Ronsard's daughter, Laure, suffers from several medical problems, As a father, he would do anything to save his daughter. The choices he felt were either being an arms dealer or a drug dealer; as he said to Neima "she is my child, the devil may have my soul, but he's welcome to it if she can live." With the money that he earns, Ronsard has put large sums into new research for cystic fibrosis, as well as searching for a black market heart.

15. All four of the list ladies are employed at the same company; Leah Street is also an employee. What is the name of the company?

From Quiz "Mr Perfect" by Linda Howard

Answer: Hammerstead Technology

They all work at Hammerstead Technology, Jaine in the payroll department, Luna in the sales division, TJ in human resources and Marci was head of accounting. Leah works in human resources with TJ.

16. After thinking about why someone would want her dead, Karen remembered the package from Dexter that she never opened. Where did she put it?

From Quiz Linda Howard's "Kill and Tell"

Answer: Buckeye Stockit and Lockit

In the book, it mentions that she had unit 152 and it was found by stealing her canceled checks.

17. What does BUD/S stand for?

From Quiz "All the Queen's Men" by Linda Howard

Answer: Basic underwater demolition/SEAL training

All CIA agents must pass BUD/S. According to Medina, it is a grueling, extensive training program, with a very low percentage actually completing the training. Both Medina and Dallas (Neima's husband) have completed and passed BUD/S.

18. The four women met after work on Fridays at Ernie's, where they came up with the soon to be famous "Perfect Man" list. What where the first three requirements on the list?

From Quiz "Mr Perfect" by Linda Howard

Answer: faithful, nice and dependable

The list became became available to the public after it was accidentally shown to a friend who showed it to another person and it grew from there. The first three items on the list were faithful, nice and dependable. Other requirements for the "perfect man" were steady job, great in bed, money's nice, sense of humor, good to look at, as well as a few other physical requirements.

19. Who was Raymond Hilley?

From Quiz Linda Howard's "Kill and Tell"

Answer: He was the right hand man of Senator Lake

Apparently he more than a lackey; he was a gofer, mercenary, hired killer, cleaner, adviser, and nurse all in one deadly package.

20. Why did Medina kill Venetia?

From Quiz "All the Queen's Men" by Linda Howard

Answer: she was a double agent and a traitor

Venetia was Medina's wife. He killed her because she was a double agent and a traitor. During the Cold War she was willing to sell the names of the two highest placed moles, Aldrich and Ames, to the Kremlin for money. Medina set a trap, and shot her while she was on the telephone with the Soviet Embassy.

21. What disease does Jaine's father suffer from?

From Quiz "Mr Perfect" by Linda Howard

Answer: Parkinson's

When Sam wanted a fast wedding with no engagement period, Jaine said that they would have to wait because her parents were busy touring Europe. The had gone to Europe because Jaine's dad had Parkinson's Disease and her mother felt that this might be their last chance to be able to go.

22. Senator Lake and Raymond Hilley cornered Karen and Chastain in the storage unit to kill them after Karen and Chastain found the package from her father. There was a book inside; why did Senator Lake want the book?

From Quiz Linda Howard's "Kill and Tell"

Answer: It was Dexter's kill book and Lake hired Dexter to kill his brother

Lake's older brother was supposed to be the "heir" to the Lake dynasty, but once he was killed Stephen Lake stepped up to become senator and planned to be president. Before he could continue in his quest, he had to get rid of Dexter, the only other person who knew what he'd done.

23. How many minutes was it into Delta Flight 183 from Atlanta to London when the plane exploded?

From Quiz "All the Queen's Men" by Linda Howard

Answer: 33 minutes

Medina and Neima are brought in to investigate the unexplained source which caused the explosion of Delta Flight 183. Delta Flight 183 from Atlanta to London exploded 33 minutes into the flight over the mountains in North Carolina; 263 people died. Although it appeared to be a internal explosion there was no evidence to suggest the theory of a bomb.

24. Who killed Raymond Hilley?

From Quiz Linda Howard's "Kill and Tell"

Answer: Senator Lake

When Hilley realized that Chastain was saying that Lake had his brother killed, he wanted to see the book for himself. Rather than let him, Senator Lake killed him.

25. From whose perspective is the book written?

From Quiz "Mr Perfect" by Linda Howard

Answer: Jaine

The book is written from Jaine's perspective. It details her friends, their creation of the list, her job, her neighbours, her family and her relationship with Sam.

26. Karen was really mad at John Medina in the end, even though everyone was okay and Lake was dead. She wanted to know why he waited to kill Lake even though he'd already shot Marc in the chest, and he replied ...?

From Quiz Linda Howard's "Kill and Tell"

Answer: "Yours wasn't the only father killed, Miss Whitlaw."

Rick Medina was John Medina's father. Although Rick was valued by the CIA, John was prized and considered "classified." For fear of exposure, he couldn't live a normal life so he had to work behind the scenes. Rather than kill Senator Lake outright, he wanted to know Lake's part in his father's death, and as it turns out, Lake had the older Medina killed.

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