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5 Jonathan Creek quizzes and 50 Jonathan Creek trivia questions.
1.
  Jonathan's Zoo   great trivia quiz  
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
How much do you know about the animals which appear in 'Jonathan Creek' episodes? These questions are in chronological order.
Average, 10 Qns, ArleneRimmer, Aug 31 18
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ArleneRimmer
Aug 31 18
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  Maddie's Madness   popular trivia quiz  
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
'I demand my right to an investigative journalist!' cried the suspect in the pilot episode of 'Jonathan Creek', and after that Maddie barges in with gusto!
Average, 10 Qns, ArleneRimmer, Jan 08 06
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ArleneRimmer
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  Adam's Antics   popular trivia quiz  
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
Adam Klaus - what can one say?
Average, 10 Qns, ArleneRimmer, Aug 31 18
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ArleneRimmer
Aug 31 18
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  Jonathan's Puzzles   great trivia quiz  
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
I have tried not to give away too much about the plots of these whodunits, but in some cases it may spoil your enjoyment if you have not yet seen the episodes involved.
Average, 10 Qns, ArleneRimmer, Aug 31 18
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ArleneRimmer
Aug 31 18
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  Jonathan Creek    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
Questions covering all series of "Jonathan Creek". I love the show, to the point where I can recite almost the script of each episode along with the characters! If you have hardly watched the programme I strongly recommend doing so.
Average, 10 Qns, creekaholic, Aug 31 18
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creekaholic
Aug 31 18
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Jonathan Creek Trivia Questions
1. This animal very sadly got caught in the under-stage mechanism during rehearsals and died of heart failure; Jonathan was to tell Maddie all about it, and later they were to go to the animal's funeral. What type of creature was this?

From Quiz Jonathan's Zoo

Answer: elephant

This was in the third episode ('The Reconstituted Corpse'). Adam Klaus was only seen once in the first series, and that was in the pilot episode - the rest of the time he was only talked about, and this was the first of those off-stage 'appearances' as Jonathan told Maddie what happened at the theatre.

2. In the episode, "The Seer of the Sands", between which two words does the harvest-fly land?

From Quiz Jonathan Creek

Answer: "no" and "one"

The cause of the suicide in this episode was a harvest-fly that rather unfortunately landed on a fax message, and appeared to be a comma.

3. What did Maddie do when Jonathan told her how Beryl Carney died?

From Quiz Maddie's Madness

Answer: she stopped the car and pranced around in the snow in anguish

It was hardly surprising that Maddie reacted badly to the story of Beryl Carney's death. She and her twin sister, Marella, were practicing a magic trick which went wrong and Beryl was sawn in half by a sawblade. Lengthwise. *shudder*

4. Adam's latest love interest in 'Black Canary' was, according to Adam, totally innocent and untouched. By the end of the episode, however, we learn that Elsa may have been so, but was also something else. What was she?

From Quiz Adam's Antics

Answer: a Nazi

Adam was horrified when he saw a small swastika attached to a ring which was attached to her body (we don't discover which part but it is obvious that it is a part usually hidden from view). As our favourite magician is lying in a hospital bed as he tells this tale, we can only assume that Elsa reacted violently to Adam's reaction to the discovery!

5. What was the name of the victim in 'The Wrestler's Tomb' - the very first Jonathan Creek?

From Quiz Jonathan's Puzzles

Answer: Hedley Shale

Jack Holiday was the man found dead in the nuclear bunker, while Elliot Strange was found with a Samurai sword through him in a locked and barred room, and Marella Carney was the 'Black Canary' who committed suicide twice.

6. What creature was used by the kidnappers to establish Roy Pilgrim's alibi in 'No Trace of Tracy'?

From Quiz Jonathan's Zoo

Answer: frog

Tracy entered Roy Pilgrim's house at 4pm, and at the same time a small frog was put into the duplicate room some miles down the road, where Roy was handcuffed to the false radiator. This, along with his small radio tuned to Classic FM, established the time-frame for the singer who was able to furnish Jonathan with an additional, animal-based, clue.

7. In the series 3 episode, "The Omega Man", from what substance is the skeleton made?

From Quiz Jonathan Creek

Answer: mercury

The skeleton strangely vanishes into thin air in this episode. Jonathan works out that the mercury had melted and therefore appeared to vanish.

8. When in the Mother Redcap, Maddie was very nearly killed because of something she had done. What was this?

From Quiz Maddie's Madness

Answer: she took off her shoes

There was a booby trap in the room, where a previous landlord had rigged up the electric current to tiny little spikes under the floorboards. Maddie had taken her shoes off while Jonathan discovered the apparatus, and it was live when she went to stand on them barefoot. Jonathan leapt towards her and saved her life.

9. What happened when Adam Klaus was locked in a coffin while in a straight-jacket, and buried in the local park?

From Quiz Adam's Antics

Answer: an elderly lady attacked Jonathan and the rest of the team

This was the episode 'The Scented Room', when Jonathan and Maddie discovered the whereabouts of a painting which disappeared from a tiny locked room in the space of thirty seconds. Adam was incarcerated in a coffin (but not buried) for an endurance event in 'The Chequered Box' and in that episode he has to end his challenge early as he is accused of looking up women's skirts.

10. Who murdered the judge in 'Mother Redcap', in which the victim was killed in a guarded room with his wife asleep in bed beside him?

From Quiz Jonathan's Puzzles

Answer: a policewoman

The policewoman was extracting revenge for the deaths of her two policeman brothers who were killed by a murderer who was given a lenient sentence by the judge.

11. What was the Biblical name of the gorilla who used the toilet, ate paper and died falling from the landing?

From Quiz Jonathan's Zoo

Answer: Samson

Poor Samson died a similar death to his human, Dr Elliot Strange, because he also tasted the drugged gummed flap of an SAE (self-addressed envelope) which had been sent by an animal-rights activist and tripped out. Ironic really.

12. In the first ever episode, "The Wrestler's Tomb", artist Hedley Shale specialises in what kind of paintings?

From Quiz Jonathan Creek

Answer: Nude women

These paintings are shown at the very beginning.

13. In which episode in season 3 do we see Jonathan's partner Maddie play a trick on her friend Mimi Trantor?

From Quiz Jonathan's Puzzles

Answer: 'Ghosts Forge'

Jonathan, Maddie and Mimi come across a locked room in a deserted mansion, and, curious to know what is in there, the two ladies find a ladder to climb in the window. Maddie climbs up first, and vanishes. Mimi climbs up after her to find Jonathan on the other side of the locked door but Maddie nowhere to be found in the completely empty room. Great trick!

14. Throughout the first series Maddie would do the snooping around while Jonathan kept people talking, but in 'Time Waits for Norman' she turned the tables and sent him into the house to have a look around. What happened to him when he was in there?

From Quiz Jonathan's Zoo

Answer: a small dog attacked him

The worst of it was that the house did not belong to the right person - the man Maddie was questioning was just there trimming an old lady's hedges!

15. In "Mother Redcap", Jonathan invites the police officer, Fay, to lunch. What weird habit does she have?

From Quiz Jonathan Creek

Answer: Sticking out her tongue when she eats

This police officer actually turns out to be the murderer.

16. What animal was sadly trapped when the mechanism under the stage of the theatre jammed during rehearsals in the episode 'The Reconstituted Corpse'?

From Quiz Adam's Antics

Answer: elephant

We don't actually see anything here, but hear of the tragedy as the episode goes on. At the close of the programme we see Jonathan and Maddie return to her home from the elephant's funeral. The keeper was very understanding, saying that she had lived a good long life and that she was a star, and would have preferred to go working in a theatre rather than anywhere else. No animals were hurt during the filming of this episode!

17. Why was actress Vivian Brodie killed in 'Satan's Chimney'?

From Quiz Jonathan's Puzzles

Answer: she had an abortion

The murderer arranged for someone else to kill Vivian to extract revenge for her aborting his child.

18. In "The Eyes of Tiresias", what is Tiresias?

From Quiz Jonathan Creek

Answer: A goldfish

The fish is named after a blind soothsayer from Thebes.

19. Former 'Dr Who' actor, Peter Davison, appeared in an episode as a vicar. He was related to the victim in this story - but what relationship did they have?

From Quiz Jonathan's Puzzles

Answer: she was his mother-in-law

Emma Lazarus was shot by an intruder who then vanished into thin air inside a garage with only one entrance, and that guarded.

20. What does Lady Theresa Cutler put in Sylvester Le Fley's sandwich?

From Quiz Jonathan Creek

Answer: A stinging nettle

The sandwich incident arises from Lady Theresa's jealousy when Sylvester's masseuse massages him.

21. What were Andre Masson's final words?

From Quiz Jonathan's Puzzles

Answer: 'Oh, Dieu "Oh, Dieu, Oh, Dieu.'

Andre's final minutes in 'The Eyes of Tiresias' were predicted by an elderly woman in her dreams, barely hours before he was killed in his office, behind a locked door, with half a dozen witnesses to the sounds within.

22. Why did bats have a part in the 1998 Christmas Special, 'Black Canary'?

From Quiz Jonathan's Zoo

Answer: they had been disturbed during their hibernation

A homeless vagrant had played a part in the mystery of Marella's death, but no one had much luck finding him - until Jonathan understood the reason for the bats which were flying around in January. Someone had disturbed their winter hideout. Getting the information from the local wildlife group, he and Maddie went looking for the tramp, and so got the last, vital clue.

23. In "The Reconstituted Corpse" what is Zola's boyfriend?

From Quiz Jonathan Creek

Answer: a Swedish swimming instructor

Maddy has trouble saying this to Zola!

24. Norman Stangerson is seen on both sides of the Atlantic at the same time - is he some kind of Superman? One clue could be in a cryptic message found in his wallet (which he claims never to have seen before). What does this message turn out to be?

From Quiz Jonathan's Puzzles

Answer: a telephone number

The message read: 'Oh when I know to free hate, to sever no one' and translated as 0190 2382701 when read aloud. Clever!

25. Jonathan Creek is obssessed when - in "No Trace of Tracy" - he meets the band member of which rock group?

From Quiz Jonathan Creek

Answer: Edwin Drood

It may have been that producer David Renwick based this band on Uriah Heep. They are both named after Charles Dickens' characters.

26. Maddie moved to the USA after Series 3; she sent Jonathan a picture which we see in the special 'Satan's Chimney'. What was the name of her new American boyfriend?

From Quiz Maddie's Madness

Answer: Austin

Maddy wrote saying that her book tour was going well. 'Austin is HUGE!' she wrote, and when Jonathan turned the picture over we see it is Maddy being held close to a man; there is an arrow pointing at him with 'Austin' written by it.

27. A significant clue as to how a person was able to change from a white man to a black man in just a matter of minutes was found by Jonathan in - who?

From Quiz Jonathan's Puzzles

Answer: Groucho Marx

Ironically, if it wasn't for the murderer playing this trick on journalist Donna Henry the murder of Marco Bergman would have gone unnoticed! This episode was 'The Tailor's Dummy' from series 4.

28. There was one time when Maddie's thought processes clicked into place - this was in 'The Three Gamblers' when she surprised even Jonathan by voicing what conclusion?

From Quiz Maddie's Madness

Answer: that Karen was a police officer

A chance request from Adam when at the theatre gave Maddie this clue; he had to explain what he meant by a technical term in order for her to pass something over to him. This reminded her of a time in the Inspector's office when Karen was able to pass a SOCO report to the policeman without hesitation. Karen was an undercover copper who had been working on this particular crime syndicate for many months. Please note that I have substituted some words in quotes in this quiz to make allowances for FunTrivia being a family site.

29. In the very first episode Jonathan and Maddie meet because another character, Francesca, met Jonathan at the theatre where Adam chose her from the audience to help with one of his illusions. What was that illusion?

From Quiz Adam's Antics

Answer: a parody of the shower scene from 'Psycho'

Francesca was later to be employed as Adam's assistant, and then she took part in the trick involving the sarcophagus (Egyptian tomb) and miles of bandages! When she first went on stage with Adam it was to enter a shower and end up under the stage where she met Jonathan. Adam was played by Stuart Milligan from Series 2 onwards, but by Anthony Head in the first episode (the character was not seen in any other Series 1 episodes).

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