Miss Marple Trivia

1. "A Caribbean Mystery" begins with Miss Marple in St. Honore and recovering from a recent illness. Who paid for Miss Marple's trip?

From Quiz A Caribbean Mystery

Answer: Her nephew, Raymond

Miss Marple frequently talks about her nephew Raymond West, an author, and how he treats her to things. Raymond paid for her vacation to St. Honore in the Caribbean. However, Miss Marple finds the beaches and the sun to be boring as there is no adventure around - at first.

From Quiz Agatha Christie's "They Do It with Mirrors"

Answer: None, it it just a feeling she has.

Ruth tells Miss Marple that she really has no particular reasoning for having the feelings she does. Nonetheless, she asks Miss Marple to go visit Carrie Louise and investigate. Miss Marple agrees and goes to visit Carrie Louise at her house, Stonygates.

From Quiz A Murder is Announced

Answer: Old school friends

Miss Blacklock and her sister hadn't seen Dora in many years. But then Dora wrote to Miss Blacklock out of the blue looking for help because she had fallen on hard times. Miss Blacklock immediately invited Dora to make her home with her in Chipping Cleghorn, an offer the destitute Dora gratefully accepted.

From Quiz Agatha Christie "4:50 From Paddington"

Answer: What Mrs. McGillicuddy Saw!

Mrs. Elspeth McGillicuddy was Miss Marple's friend in the book and saw a murder on the train overtaking hers. Only Miss Marple believed her story.

From Quiz "The Thirteen Problems" - The Thirteenth Problem

Answer: 10:15

Sir Henry was staying with Colonel and Dolly Bantry. Sir Henry goes to breakfast at what is described as a guestly hour.

From Quiz "The Thirteen Problems" - The Twelfth Problem

Answer: Her friend

Even though Jane initially pretends that the story she is about to tell is about her friend, the other guests know that it is really about her. Indeed, it is only a matter of a few sentences before she gives herself away.

From Quiz "The Thirteen Problems" - The Eleventh Problem

Answer: Dolly Bantry

Dolly Bantry warns that she is not a very good storyteller before she starts. Nevertheless, the abruptness of her story shocks the guests. They take it in turns to question her to gain more information.

From Quiz "The Thirteen Problems" - The Ninth Problem

Answer: Mrs. Trent

Miss Marple quickly tells how Mrs. Trent's cleaning lady was suspected of stealing the money even though she was innocent. She uses this to highlight the fact that being under suspicion is hardest on those who are innocent.

From Quiz "The Thirteen Problems" - The Seventh Problem

Answer: Col. Arthur Bantry

It is at this point in the book that the people telling and trying to solve the mysteries change. Miss Marple is invited to the home of Colonel and Dolly Bantry after Sir Henry Clithering is also invited to dinner and asked who he would like to bring along.

From Quiz "The Thirteen Problems" - The Sixth Problem

Answer: Niece

Miss Marple tells this story about her niece Mabel who has written to her in distress following the death of her husband, Geoffrey.

From Quiz "The Thirteen Problems" - The Fifth Problem

Answer: Mr Petherick

Mr Petherick is a solicitor so has seen his fair share of legal cases. He therefore chooses to put forward a case involving a problem with a client's will.

From Quiz "The Thirteen Problems" - The Fourth Problem.

Answer: Joyce Lempriere

Joyce tells this story which happened when she was travelling and sketching one summer in a place called Rathole.

From Quiz "The Thirteen Problems" - The Third Problem

Answer: Whitsuntide

Raymond says that he was going down to spend Whitsuntide with a man whom he had met fairly recently.

From Quiz "The Thirteen Problems" - The Second Problem

Answer: Dr. Pender

Dr. Pender tells the story which happened when he was a younger man.

From Quiz "The Thirteen Problems" - The First Problem

Answer: Sir Henry Clithering

Sir Henry Clithering starts the ball rolling telling stories. He is a retired police officer so has many cases and mysteries at his disposal.

From Quiz Miss Marple Mania

Answer: Colonel Protheroe

Colonel Protheroe, the most hated man in St. Mary Mead, is the first victim in a Miss Marple novel. "Murder at the Vicarage" was first published in October 1930.

From Quiz "Murder at the Vicarage" with Miss Marple

Answer: Reverend Leonard Clement

Reverend Clement is the Vicar of St Mary Mead. Colonel Protheroe, the local magistrate, wishes to talk to him about the church funds. Colonel Protheroe lives at Old Hall with his second wife, Anne, and his daughter from his first marriage, Lettice.

From Quiz Miss Marple A to Z (almost!)

Answer: Letitia Blacklock

This was first published in 1950. Letitia, however, is not as she first appears. When an advertisement, in the local newspaper, says a murder will happen at Little Paddocks, everybody goes there. Letitia considers the advertisement a joke, but it stops being a joke when the lights go out and a gunman appears. Luckily, Miss Marple is staying nearby.

From Quiz Who is Jane Marple?

Answer: Between 1871 and 1880

It can be worked out using the information in "They Do It with Mirrors" in which Carrie Louise Serrocold, Miss Marple's friend in Florence, appears (they must have "similar" ages). Mildred was born when Carrie was 17 years old. In 1934, Mildred married at 40 years of age and Carrie Louise was between 55 and 60 years.

From Quiz At Bertram's Hotel

Answer: Father

He was nearing his retirement and appeared to be even more elderly than he was.

From Quiz A Pocket Full of Rye

Answer: Cyanide

Taxine was used to poison Rex. Cyanide acts very quickly as compared to taxine and traces of it were found in Adele's tea.

From Quiz 'Sleeping Murder' by Agatha Christie

Answer: St. Catherine's

The Elworthys who bought the house after Mrs. Findeyson died changed the name to Hillside. They felt St. Catherine's sounded too 'Popish'.

From Quiz The Body in the Library

Answer: N or M?

"N or M?" was a murder mystery involving espionage; Christie incorporated a nursery rhyme (as she so often did) as part of the plot; in this case, "Goosey, Goosey Gander". In her autobiography, Christie writes "I had decided to write two books at once...I believed that if I wrote two books, and alternated the writing of them, it would keep me fresh at the task." While she was at work on these two books, England was in the thick of the Second World War; she found that keeping busy helped her to deal with the anxieties of the war.

From Quiz "The Thirteen Problems" by Agatha Christie

Answer: £8,000

Raymond West, Miss Marple's nephew, decides to create a club. Each person in the club must tell a mystery story, to which only they know the answer, and the other members have to figure it out. The storyteller can change names. There is Raymond himself (a writer), Joyce Lempriére (an artist), Sir Henry Clithering (until lately Commissioner of Scotland Yard), Dr Pender (elderly clergyman of the parish), Mr Petherick (the solicitor) and finally Miss Marple. In "The Tuesday Night Club", Sir Henry tells the story of a Mrs Jones who dies from food poisoning, but all is not what it seems. Miss Marple solves the mystery with the mention of "Hundreds and Thousands".

From Quiz Miss Marple Mixture

Answer: Estelle

"The Murder At The Vicarage" introduces us to Miss Marple. It was first published in 1930. The local Colonel of Saint Mary Mead has been found murdered in the Vicar's study and Miss Marple investigates and solves the case before the local Inspector, Inspector Slack.

From Quiz The Mirror Crack'd From Side to Side

Answer: Alfred Lord Tennyson

The poem tells the tragic story of the mysterious Lady of Shalott, who has been told that a curse will befall her if she sets eyes on Camelot. Consequently, she spend her days before a mirror watching the daily events of Camelot reflected through her window, which she weaves into a long tapestry on her loom. Disaster befalls her when she sees Lancelot in her mirror and is compelled to turn and gaze at him out of the window. At this point, according to the poem: "Out flew the web and floated wide; The mirror crack'd from side to side; 'The curse is come upon me' cried The Lady of Shalott." This passage comes to Dolly Bantry's mind when she sees the strange "basilisk" look come over Marina Gregg's face at the reception at Gossington Hall, only she misremembers "curse" as "doom". Shortly afterward, Heather Badcock (who had been talking to Marina at the time) suddenly takes ill and dies.

From Quiz The "Tuesday Club Murders" by Agatha Christie

Answer: Joyce Lempriere

Raymond West, Miss Marple's nephew, is the first to bring up the subject of unsolved mysteries. Joyce is the one who actually comes up with the idea of forming a club.

From Quiz The Moving Finger

Answer: Jerry was recouping from injuries suffered in a plane crash.

Jerry Burton needed a nice, quiet place, away from the London bustle, to recoup from a plane crash, and Lymstock seemed perfect. It was quiet, out of the way without being remote, and he did not know anyone in town. Joanna, his very urban sister, went along with him. They leased Little Furze, the Victorian house of Miss Emily Barton and settled into village life. Then one day they receive an anonymous poison pen letter---and the mystery begins.

From Quiz The Murder at the Vicarage

Answer: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

In her biography, Christie states that Miss Marple's creation probably originated from the pleasure she got in creating the character of Caroline Sheppard in "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd". "She had been my favorite character in the book- an acidulated spinster, full of curiosity, knowing everything, hearing everything, the complete detective service in the home."

From Quiz Miss Marple

Answer: St. Mary Mead

Miss Marple does sometimes leave St. Mary Mead, however, to solve some of her mysteries!

This is category 14505
Last Updated Nov 16 2024 5:48 AM

= Top 5% Rated Quiz, Top 10% Rated Quiz, Top 20% Rated Quiz, A Well Rated Quiz
= added recently, = Editor's Pick = FunTrivia Editor = Gold Member
Teachers / educators: FunTrivia welcomes the use of our website and quizzes in the classroom as a teaching aid or for preparing and testing students. See our education section. Our quizzes are printable and may be used as question sheets by k-12 teachers, parents, and home schoolers.

 ·  All questions, answers, and quiz content on this website is copyright FunTrivia, Inc and may not be reproduced without permission. Any images from TV shows and movies are copyright their studios, and are being used under "fair use" for commentary and education.