The Dresden Files Trivia

1. Whose father came to visit?

From Quiz "The Dresden Files" - "Second City"

Answer: Lt. Murphy

Murphy's dad came to Chicago in part to complain about her relationship with Dresden. Jim Murphy was a retired police officer in his own right.

From Quiz "The Dresden Files" - "Things That Go Bump"

Answer: Bob

Bob was a ghost, and therefore didn't have to use a door or other opening to pass through to other rooms. That also meant he wasn't able to touch any physical items. Bob's spirit lived inside his skull from when he was alive. The skull was normally kept in Dresden's lab.

From Quiz "The Dresden Files" - "What About Bob?"

Answer: It was stolen

A woman who stayed over at Harry's place stole the skull and took it to Dresden's long-dead uncle Justin Morningstar. That was the same uncle Harry had killed 5-years earlier. The woman's name was Tara.

From Quiz "The Dresden Files" - "The Other Dick"

Answer: Taking a class to get his P.I. license

Harry had to take the class, and earn his P.I. License in order to stay on as a consultant with the Chicago Police. He did poorly on the test, but the instructor liked him and passed him anyway.

From Quiz "The Dresden Files" - "Stormfront"

Answer: Houdini

His father named him for the famous magician. One of the Chicago detectives accused him of naming himself after Harry Potter, and later called him "Gandalf".

From Quiz "The Dresden Files" - "Soul Beneficiary"

Answer: A woman was cooking him breakfast in bed.

He woke up to her bringing in a tray of eggs and bacon to him in the bed. She called him "honey" and he said he was sorry that he couldn't remember her name. Then the scene flipped to Harry's office where he was meeting with a potential client.

From Quiz "The Dresden Files" - "Bad Blood"

Answer: Vampire

She hired Dresden to find out who was trying to kill her. She was touted as the most beautiful vampire in all of Chicago. She was played by Joanne Kelly.

From Quiz "The Dresden Files" - "Rules of Engagement"

Answer: Niece

Nikki hired Dresden to chase down her aunt's deadbeat boyfriend who had run off with her money.

From Quiz "The Dresden Files" - "Boone Identity"

Answer: Stone tablet

The thief dropped the tablet as he was leaving the store and broke it. He was later killed the same night when his shotgun went off during a struggle.

From Quiz "The Dresden Files" - "Birds of a Feather"

Answer: A bracelet

It was a "shield bracelet" that had belonged to his mother. The scene was in a flashback to 1981 when Harry was a child. In the flashback he vowed to find whatever killed his mother and kill it.

From Quiz "Dresden Files" Basics

Answer: Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden

Harry was named for three great stage magicians: Harry Houdini, Harry Blackstone, Sr., and David Copperfield.

From Quiz "The Dresden Files" - "Second City"

Answer: Drinking shots

She was complaining about a muckraking journalist. After the complaining, she mentioned that people were starting to talk about the reports she filed in cases they worked together.

From Quiz "The Dresden Files" - "Things That Go Bump"

Answer: Yoga

She stopped on her way to work to see if he knew anything about an explosion with green flames that happened a few blocks from his office. He didn't admit to knowing anything about it. Throughout the series the two of them had a love/hate relationship.

From Quiz "The Dresden Files" - "What About Bob?"

Answer: Magician on a cruise ship

Dresden got his magical abilities from his mother, his dad had none. His dad was a third rate magician who barely made enough money to keep Harry and himself with a roof over their heads. He was selected to work on a cruise ship, moments before he became ill and died in the flashback.

From Quiz "The Dresden Files" - "The Other Dick"

Answer: Mr. Brennan

Mr. Brennan was his P.I. teacher. He was trying to find out if $250 would be enough to keep him in the class. When he walked into Brennan's office he found the man dead in his chair.

From Quiz "The Dresden Files" - "Stormfront"

Answer: Gangster

Harry was called in to investigate because their hearts had exploded in their chests. There was no other signs of forced entry or foul play in the hotel room where Tommy and a young college student were found dead.

From Quiz "The Dresden Files" - "Walls"

Answer: Hit by a car

She had been in Harry's shop moments before, but Harry wasn't in. They passed each other as they she was leaving. Harry started to chat with her and she was struck by a car in front of the shop.

From Quiz "The Dresden Files" - "Soul Beneficiary"

Answer: Kelton

He was from the Highland Park neighborhood and was having premonitions that he would die. Shortly after Harry told him that he wouldn't take the case, he stood up and died before leaving the office. The only other thing Harry told the police was that the man had been married for 10 years and enjoyed running.

From Quiz "The Dresden Files" - "Rules of Engagement"

Answer: Enforcers of law for the supernatural

The head of the Chicago branch of the High Council was Morgan. Morgan was played by Conrad Coates. He showed up to investigate when a man Dresden was searching for was found dead.

From Quiz "The Dresden Files" - "Hair of the Dog"

Answer: Werewolf

Her body was found with all of the teeth pulled and hair missing. It was the 8th such case across the country, spawning a federal investigation.

From Quiz "The Dresden Files" - "Boone Identity"

Answer: Gus Boone

While interviewing the shop owner Dresden had a flashback and saw Boone kill the shop owner's daughter. The ghost knocked Dresden over during his vision.

From Quiz "The Dresden Files" - "Birds of a Feather"

Answer: Ghost

Bob's spirit inhabits a skull in Harry's secret lab. rather than refer to himself as a ghost he preferred the term Spirit of Intellect.

From Quiz "Dresden Files" Basics

Answer: Bob

While Bert, Dobby, and Hob are also variations on the current name we know of as Robert, Harry decided to go with Bob.

From Quiz "The Dresden Files" - "Second City"

Answer: Drowned

It was the middle of winter in Chicago, and miles from the river when the man was murdered. Police were stumped at how he could be drowned in the middle of the street with no witnesses. He had been a Russian gang-banger but had gotten out about a decade earlier.

From Quiz "The Dresden Files" - "Things That Go Bump"

Answer: Ancient Mai

The Ancient Mai was the head of the Chicago High Council of Wizards, and didn't like Dresden. She was injured and carried into his office. She, the Morgan and others were being chased by someone or something unknown.

From Quiz "The Dresden Files" - "What About Bob?"

Answer: Handcuffs

Justin Morningway killed her after finding out. He said that Dresden could chase her around the world with an item left in the apartment.

From Quiz "The Dresden Files" - "The Other Dick"

Answer: Cubs

That is the address for Wrigley Field. The show is set in Chicago, and was written into the script as an in-joke. The investigation also led him to eat stadium style hot dogs outside of the house. Among the options, only the Cubs are a baseball team.

From Quiz "The Dresden Files" - "Walls"

Answer: Tallow

Tallow is rendered animal fat used in making candles. Dresden saw the substance all over the cup holder inside the crashed car.

From Quiz "The Dresden Files" - "Bad Blood"

Answer: Nightclub owner

When Harry was still deciding to take her case or not, she promised that she had a witness. She invited him back to her club to see for himself. When he got there, she gave him the eyeball of her witness. Harry used magic to look through the eye and see the scene as it had played when when Bianca was attacked.

From Quiz "The Dresden Files" - "Rules of Engagement"

Answer: Burnt

The man had stolen $22,000 from his client's aunt. While Dresden knew her as Nikki, her real name was Caryn Harris.

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