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Titled 'Funerals are Fatal" for US release, this Hercule Poirot novel was adapted to film as "Murder at the Gallop", but featuring Miss Marple! Was Richard Abernethie murdered? His sister, who suggested it at his funeral, certainly was.
4 quizzes and 40 trivia questions.
1.
  After the Funeral (1953)   great trivia quiz  
Match Quiz
 10 Qns
Match the major characters in this novel with their description. (NO SPOILERS)
Easier, 10 Qns, MotherGoose, Nov 04 21
Easier
MotherGoose editor
Nov 04 21
180 plays
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  What do you know about Funerals Are Fatal?    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
When Cora Lansquenet is murdered the day after her brother's funeral, everyone suspects that it is because of a comment she had made at the funeral. Hercule Poirot steps in to solve the mystery behind her death. Caution: spoilers
Average, 10 Qns, zorba_scank, Mar 14 22
Average
zorba_scank
Mar 14 22
376 plays
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  The Ultimate Funerals Are Fatal Quiz    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
'Funerals Are Fatal' is also published under the title 'After the Funeral'.
Average, 10 Qns, helena411, Mar 14 22
Average
helena411
Mar 14 22
766 plays
4.
  Agatha Christie's "After the Funeral"    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
This is about one of Christie's lesser known novels. This quiz contains spoilers.
Average, 10 Qns, Joepetz, May 18 09
Average
Joepetz gold member
564 plays

After the Funeral Trivia Questions
1. Why did Richard Abernathie split his estate six ways instead of leaving it all to one person?

From Quiz Agatha Christie's "After the Funeral"

Answer: He wasn't satisfied with any of the possibilites

He didn't leave Helen everything because she was an Abernathie by blood. Tim was an invalid. Cora had not been heard from in years. George was thought to be unstraight. Susan's and Rosamund's husbands were frowned upon. Since he didn't like any of the choices, he split it between everyone.

2. What kind of poison was found in the wedding cake sent to Miss Gilchrist?

From Quiz Funerals Are Fatal

Answer: Arsenic

Miss Gilchrist had followed the tradition of unmarried women keeping a piece of wedding cake under their pillows in order to dream of their future husbands, and this helped Inspector Morton to have the cake analyzed for traces of the poison.

3. Who hired Hercule Poirot to investigate the murders of Richard Abernethie and Cora Lansquenet?

From Quiz Funerals Are Fatal

Answer: Mr. Entwhistle

Mr. Entwhistle was Richard Abernethie's lawyer and was left in charge of carrying out his will.

4. Who sent Miss Gilchrist the wedding cake?

From Quiz Agatha Christie's "After the Funeral"

Answer: John and Mary

She ate the cake despite not knowing who these people were?

5. Who was Cora Lansquenet's companion?

From Quiz Funerals Are Fatal

Answer: Ms. Gilchrist

Mrs. Gilchrist was obsessed with her tea shop that went out of business.

6. Cora left her money to whom?

From Quiz Agatha Christie's "After the Funeral"

Answer: Susan

She left her money to Susan because no one had approved of her husband, much as no one approved of Cora's husband.

7. What organization did Hercule Poirot claim to represent while staying at Enderby Hall?

From Quiz Funerals Are Fatal

Answer: U.N.A.R.C.O.

Hercule Poirot arrived to spend the weekend at Enderby Hall to further study the people who might have been involved in Cora Lansquenet's murder. He assumed the name of M. Pontarlier and claimed to be interested in the purchase of Enderby Hall. He stated that he represented the U.N.A.R.C.O. - United Nations Aid for Refugee Centers Old Age.

8. After the deaths of Richard Abernethie and Cora Lansquenet, who was the only Abernethie left?

From Quiz Funerals Are Fatal

Answer: Timothy Abernethie

Gordon, Mortimer and Leo Abernethie had all died earlier on. Timothy Abernethie was the only Abernethie still alive and was an invalid.

9. Whose alibi for murder was adultery?

From Quiz Agatha Christie's "After the Funeral"

Answer: Michael

Michael was having an affair with an actress.

10. What piece of furniture did Rosamund and Susan fight over?

From Quiz Funerals Are Fatal

Answer: The green malachite table

Rosamund wanted the table as a prop for her forthcoming play while Susan thought it would suit the décor she had planned for her beauty shop. Timothy Abernethie wanted the Boule cabinet and Spode dessert service.

11. Who first suggested the idea that Richard Abernethie was murdered (the actual person, not whom everyone believed it to be)?

From Quiz Funerals Are Fatal

Answer: Miss Gilchrist

Everyone thougnt that it was Cora Lansquenet who told them that Richard Abernethie was murdered, but it was actually Miss Gilchrist in disguise...

12. Which two people didn't fight over any item during the novel?

From Quiz Agatha Christie's "After the Funeral"

Answer: Helen and Tim

Susan and Rosamund fought over the green malachite table, which wound up going to Susan. Miss Gilchrist and Susan fought over the a painting Cora had made. George and Tim fought over dessert trays. Ironically, Tim said that George shouldn't have the trays because he wasn't married and would never have had any use for them, but neither did he.

13. Who arranged for Miss Gilchrist to work for Timothy and Maude Abernethie after Cora Lansquenet's death?

From Quiz Funerals Are Fatal

Answer: Susan

Miss Gilchrist requested to Susan to look for employment for her as she would find it difficult to get work after Cora Lansquenet's death. She knew people would be apprehensive about hiring her because her former employer was murdered.

14. Who had a history of being mentally unstable?

From Quiz Funerals Are Fatal

Answer: Gregory Banks

Gregory Banks actually confessed to murdering Richard Abernethie, just so that he will be put into a mental hospital again. He didn't murder Richard Abernethie though...

15. Where did Helen Abernethie plan to migrate to with her share of the money?

From Quiz Funerals Are Fatal

Answer: Cyprus

Helen Abernethie had an illegitimate son living in Cyprus. She planned to educate him with her share of the money.

16. What did Susan and Gregory Banks want to do with the money that Richard Abernethie left them?

From Quiz Funerals Are Fatal

Answer: Start a beauty shop

They wanted to have a beauty shop in the front of the flat, and have a chemist shop in the back, where they would create their own cosmetics.

17. How did Susan and Poirot know that Cora's painting was fake?

From Quiz Agatha Christie's "After the Funeral"

Answer: The bridge had been blown up during the war

Miss Gilchrist wanted the painting. It was actually a Vermeer that Cora didn't think was valuable. Since Cora always painted by nature, she couldn't have painted that painting because the bridge had been blown up.

18. What kind of motif did Hercule Poirot find running through the case?

From Quiz Funerals Are Fatal

Answer: A nun

A nun had come to Enderby Hall the day before Richard Abernethie died and one had also visited Lytchett St. Mary the day of Cora Lansquenet's inquest. Another nun had come to Timothy Abernethie's house while Miss Gilchrist was staying there.

19. Who told Hercule Poirot that she was pregnant?

From Quiz Funerals Are Fatal

Answer: Rosamund Shane

Rosamund also told him that she was surprised that her husband was actually happy about the news.

20. Who was the only one apart from Helen Abernethie to recognize Hercule Poirot?

From Quiz Funerals Are Fatal

Answer: Rosamund

Rosamund recognized Hercule Poirot and knew he was a detective. She realized that he had come to look into the deaths of Richard Abernethie and Cora Lansquenet.

21. What did the murderer say that made Hercule Poirot realize that he or she was the killer?

From Quiz Funerals Are Fatal

Answer: 'They (the wax flowers) look so right on the table.'

Hercule Poirot knew that Miss Gilchrist was the killer, because there was no way Miss Gilchrist could have seen the wax flowers on the table, unless she had been to Enderby Hall earlier on. She *had* been to Enderby Hall earlier, pretending to be Cora Lansquenent.

22. What was Michael's reaction when he found out about Rosamund's pregnancy?

From Quiz Agatha Christie's "After the Funeral"

Answer: He was thrilled

This was mentioned only briefly at the end.

23. What had Helen found odd about Cora Lansquenet on the day of Richard Abernethie's funeral?

From Quiz Funerals Are Fatal

Answer: She had begun to tilt her head in the opposite direction while speaking.

Miss Gilchrist practiced Cora's mannerisms in front of the mirror to perfect her impersonation of Cora. But she didn't realize that what she was seeing in the mirror was a reversed image and thus ended up tilting her head in the wrong direction.

24. Was Richard Abernethie actually murdered?

From Quiz Funerals Are Fatal

Answer: No & no

Richard Abernethie died of natural causes; Miss Gilchrist (pretending to be Cora Lansquenet) only said that he was murdered, so that they'd think that Cora's murder was linked to his death.

25. Who admitted to the murder of Richard?

From Quiz Agatha Christie's "After the Funeral"

Answer: Greg

Greg confessed because he wanted to go back to rehab to get away from Susan. Richard died a natural death.

26. Why did Miss Gilchrist want Cora Lansquenet dead?

From Quiz Funerals Are Fatal

Answer: She wanted an expensive painting that Cora had.

Cora Lansquenet had picked up a painting at one of the garage sales she frequented which turned out to be a genuine Vermeer. Cora hadn't realized the true worth of the painting but Miss Gilchrist had. She wanted the money she would get by selling it to set up a tea shop similar to the one she had had before the war.

27. Who killed Cora Lansquenet?

From Quiz Funerals Are Fatal

Answer: Miss Gilchrist

Miss Gilchrist killed Cora Lansquenet for one sole purpose, and that was to sell the one valuable painting that Cora owned and use the money to open up her own tea shop.

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