Individual Other Christie Works Trivia

1. What did the Willetts and their four guests play at Sittaford House?

From Quiz Christie's "The Sittaford Mystery"

Answer: Table-turning

This is a type of séance in which people put their hands on a table and try to find contact with a ghost. It's comparable to the Ouija board.

From Quiz "The Mousetrap" Act I

Answer: St. Martin's Theater

"The Mousetrap" is the longest running theatrical performance in history, with over 23,000 performances since 1952.

From Quiz Ten Little Indians

Answer: Choked

It was Anthony Marston who choked himself at their first night on Indian Island.

From Quiz The Pale Horse

Answer: Mark Easterbrook

Agatha Christie's 'The Pale Horse' features Mark Easterbrook as its hero and central character. Mark is a historian writing a book about the Mughal Empire.

From Quiz Parker Pyne Investigates

Answer: Richmond Street

Miss Felicity Lemon is Mr Parker Pyne's secretary. In later books she will be Hercule Poirot's secretary. He also employs Madeleine de Sara - the "Queen of Vamps", and Claude Luttrell, who seduces lady clients.

From Quiz Why Didn't They Ask Evans?

Answer: Golf

The mystery starts in Marchbolt, Wales. Bobby Jones is playing golf with his friend, Doctor Thomas. He comes across a dying man at the base of a cliff. The man's dying words are "Why didn't they ask Evans?"

From Quiz The Sittaford Mystery

Answer: Dartmoor

Major Burnaby lives in Sittaford. He is best friends with Captain Trevelyan, who is renting out his home, Sittaford House. It is snowing heavily as Major Burnaby arrives at Sittaford House.

From Quiz The Mysterious Mr Quin Quiz

Answer: New Year's Eve

Prim, cultured bachelor Mr Satterthwaite meets the remarkable Mr Harley Quin for the first time on New Year's Eve, while visiting Mr and Mrs Tom Evesham at Royston Hall. Mr Quin comes there, after his car breaks down. The pleasant but mysterious stranger mentions that he knew the former owner of Royston Hall, Derek Capel, who unexpectedly shot himself one morning after reading that a Mr Appleton's body was to be exhumed.

From Quiz Agatha Christie's "The Hollow".

Answer: death

The poem begins, 'I hate the dreadful hollow behind the little wood', and the "Echo" line is: 'An Echo there, whatever is ask'd her, answers "Death."'

From Quiz The Man in the Brown Suit

Answer: Pneumonia

Professor Beddingfeld was a great authority on primitive man but is not rich. Anne is left an orphan and longs for adventure.

From Quiz The Sittaford Mystery

Answer: The Murder at Hazelmoor

Why Didn't They Ask Evans?' was also published as 'The Boomerang Clue', 'Mrs. McGinty's Dead' as 'Blood Will Tell' and 'The Hollow' as 'Murder After Hours'.

From Quiz Ordeal By Innocence

Answer: She had been hit on the head with a poker.

The room had been ransacked to make the murder look like a burglary. There was only one set of finger prints on the poker - those belonging to Jacko Argyle.

From Quiz "And Then There Were None"

Answer: Constance Culmington

Constance Culmington was an old friend of Wargrave's, and he received a letter from her inviting him to come to Indian Island where they could catch up and talk about old times.

From Quiz "And Then There Were None"

Answer: Hugo

Hugo was Vera's fiancé, and Cyril was his younger brother. Vera had let Cyril drown after he swam too far into the ocean and she is beginning to feel more and more guilty.

From Quiz Crooked House

Answer: They met through work

Sophia worked in an administrative position in one of the Foreign Office departments, and Charles worked in the Diplomatic Service. They met in Egypt near the end of World War II. No mutual friends are mentioned, they are certainly not vacationing, and the pair that met in FitzJames Gardens were Victoria and Edward in "They Came to Baghdad".

From Quiz And Then There Were None

Answer: Potassium Cyanide

Potassium cyanide was placed into his brandy, so that when he drank it, he died of asphyxiation.

From Quiz Death Comes As The End

Answer: Mortuary priest

"Death Comes As The End" was set in the Nile Valley in 2000 B.C. In the book's preface, Agatha Christie explained that it was common practice to bequeath property to a mortuary or ka-priest for his services in maintaining a tomb. Imhotep was the mortuary priest for the tomb of a noble named Meriptah, and Imhotep's estate was part of the endowment.

From Quiz Sparkling Cyanide (1945)

Answer: Remembered Death

"Remembered Death" was published in 1945. Agatha Christie did not like the new title "Sparkling Cyanide". She felt it was "a flippant title for a really rather serious book". (The other three answers were all titles of Agatha Christie plays.)

From Quiz 'They Came To Baghdad' by Agatha Christie

Answer: ninepence

Victoria got the sack after Mr. Greenholtz had heard her doing an unfavourable impersonation of his wife. She did persuade him to write her a reference, albeit one that was not exactly glowing, before she left in search of adventure and intrigue.

From Quiz "And Then There Were None": How Did They Die?

Answer: Poison

Anthony Marston choked on cyanide that was dropped into his glass. No one noticed, because it was just after a recording was played accusing everyone there of causing the death of one or more people. He'd been the driver in a hit and run accident, and had shown no remorse for his actions. It wasn't until later that Rogers noticed the missing Indian boy from the display on the dining room table.

From Quiz Endless Night

Answer: A gypsy woman

She was a very frightening character. She kept warning the Rogers off the land. She was suspected of killing Ellie. She died herself a bit later in the story.

From Quiz Agatha Christie: 'Destination Unknown'

Answer: Anthony

'To Anthony, who likes foreign travel as much as I do.' Here 'I' is Agatha Christie herself.

From Quiz Three Blind Mice

Answer: Mrs. Lyons

When Mrs. Casey answers the door, she sees a man silhouetted in the the doorway. In a whispery voice, he asks for Mrs. Lyons. She sends him to the second floor, and as he disappears around the staircase, she hears him softly whistling "Three Blind Mice".

From Quiz Agatha Christie's "The Man in the Brown Suit"

Answer: Anne Beddingfeld

Anne goes off in search of adventure after her father dies.

From Quiz 'The Pale Horse'

Answer: Mrs. Davis

Linna Doyle is the first victim in 'Death on the Nile', Linda Marshall is Arlena's daughter in 'Evil Under The Sun' and Anne Meredith is a character from 'Cards On The Table'.

From Quiz "Ten Little Indians"

Answer: choked

Anthony Marston was the first to die. He was actually killed by cyanide in his drink.

From Quiz Christie's "The Sittaford Mystery"

Answer: Green baize tube

This tube was lying along the bottom of the door to keep the draught out. It was used as an efficient type of sandbag.

From Quiz And Then There Were None

Answer: Gabrielle Turl

Beatrice Taylor, Lucy Combes and Louisa Mary Clees were victims of the "Soldiers" murders. Beatrice Taylor was killed by Miss Emily Brent, Lucy Combes by Tony Marston and Louisa Mary Clees by Dr Armstrong.

From Quiz "The Mousetrap" Act I

Answer: Monkswell Manor

The sign on the front of the house said Monkwell Manor, due to the carelessness of the maker, but the actual name of the house is Monkswell Manor.

From Quiz Ten Little Indians

Answer: Overslept

Mrs Rogers had fainted after hearing the voice so she was taken to her bedroom. The next day everyone found that she was dead.

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