Poirot Trivia

1. In the opening scene of the episode, we witness Simeon Lee murdering his partner and stealing his diamonds. Where and when does the murder take place?

From Quiz Hercule Poirot's Christmas

Answer: South Africa, 1896

In South Africa, Simeon Lee and his partner Gerrit put all of their diamonds together in order to start a mining business. Simeon, in a fit of greed, attacks his partner with a knife and kills him, not before Gerrit shoots him. A half dead Simeon is found and nursed by an Afrikaans woman named Stella de Zuigder. She falls in love with him but he abandons her in pursue of his fortune.

From Quiz "Poirot: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd"

Answer: Nobody answered the door at Poirot's house

They both go to Poirot's house and enter. They get a shock when all of the clocks go off at the same time. Later, they notice all of the utensils in the kitchen are lined up in order.

From Quiz "Poirot": The TV Series

Answer: The Adventure of the Italian Nobleman

Miss Lemon falls in love with the murder victim's valet (Graves) in "The Adventure of the Italian Nobleman". He turns out to be the murderer, but in the end, after a long car chase, he gives up. Hastings punches him into the water, and remarks, "That's for Miss Lemon". Graves used her to gain admittance to Poirot to establish false facts about his master's death. In the end, though, she is happy he has been arrested because he was going to have his master's cat killed.

From Quiz Hercule Poirot's Christmas

Answer: The Zwartland River Mining Company

The car belongs to Simeon Lee's company and carries a locked suitcase to Simeon's house. Simeon Lee has become extremely rich and successful in the mining business he had set his mind to start, 40 years ago. The holiday season finds him an old, tyrannical patriarch in a wheelchair, living with his son Alfred and Alfred's wife Lydia. They are all expecting the rest of Simeon's family for the holidays.

From Quiz "Poirot: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd"

Answer: A pumpkin

Poirot stands up and sees Dr. Sheppard and Parker. The look on his face is hilarious. He explains how he worked and worked with the pumpkin, but "she" wouldn't grow, so he "killed" it.

From Quiz "Poirot": The TV Series

Answer: Philip Jackson

Philip Jackson stars as Chef Inspector James Japp, one of Poirot's great friends.

From Quiz Hercule Poirot's Christmas

Answer: Pilar Estravados

Pilar Estravados is a Spanish woman who is the daughter of Simeon's deceased daughter Jennifer. Pilar, who has never met her mother's family, has been invited by Simeon, to spend Christmas with the family. On the train, she meets Poirot and Simeon's estranged son, Harry, who has also been invited by his father.

From Quiz Hercule Poirot's Christmas

Answer: Tressilian

Tressilian is the only one who extends a somewhat polite welcome to the guests. Neither Poirot, nor Pilar or Harry are warmly welcomed by the other members of the Lee family, Alfred and wife Lydia and George and wife Magdalene. Resentment and suspicion are palpable as they all think the estranged members of the family, Pilar and Harry, came to take part in the sharing of Simeon's fortune.

From Quiz "Poirot": The TV Series

Answer: "Murder in Mesopotamia" and "The Lost Mine"

In "The Lost Mine", she played Mrs. Lester. In "Murder in Mesopotamia", she played Mrs. Leidner.

From Quiz Hercule Poirot's Christmas

Answer: Eight uncut diamonds in a leather case

The very first diamonds that Simeon and his partner had found in South Africa, the ones he became a murderer for, were brought to Simeon from his company's museum in Pretoria. He had left them uncut all these years. After he shows them to Pilar, hinting that they could be hers, he summons the whole family and announces he will change his will all the while insulting everybody and turning them against each other.

From Quiz "Poirot": The TV Series

Answer: Bill Wallis

Bill Wallis plays Horace Trefussis, who is the killer of Ruben Astwell.

From Quiz Hercule Poirot's Christmas

Answer: Slashed throat

When they break the door down they find Simeon Lee with his throat slashed, in a pool of blood. No one knows how the murderer could have escaped from a locked room with the windows bolted and since local Superintendent Sugden is present, he immediately starts the inquiries, assisted by Poirot.

From Quiz "Poirot": The TV Series

Answer: Peril at End House

"Peril at End House" was the first feature length episode in the series. Do not get it confused with "The Mysterious Affair at Styles". That takes place first chronologically, but it was not the first feature length "Poirot" episode to be made.

From Quiz Hercule Poirot's Christmas

Answer: A pink rubber band and a small wooden peg

Initially, the pink piece of plastic and the wooden peg don't mean much to Poirot but as his "little grey cells" begin their work, a comment from Harry Lee, that the scream from his father's room sounded like killing a pig, remind him of a pink balloon with the painted face of a pig he saw in the village novelty store where he went in search for a Christmas present for Chief Inspector Japp. These balloons were sold at fairs and were named "Dying Pigs" because as the air was rushed out of them it made a wailing noise. That discovery lead Poirot to the conclusion that the murder scene was staged and the murder had indeed occurred at an earlier time.

From Quiz "Poirot: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd"

Answer: Dr. Sheppard

He had fatally stabbed Ackroyd in the neck after Ackroyd found out, through a letter that Dorothy Ferrars had written, that Sheppard was the blackmailer.

From Quiz "Poirot": The TV Series

Answer: Christopher Gunning

Christopher Gunning is the composer for the entire "Poirot" series. Howard Shore, John Williams, and Danny Elfman are all composers, but they usually do much bigger projects than this series and are not involved with it in any way.

From Quiz "Poirot: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd"

Answer: His sister

Caroline found a gun and his journal. She read through it and took went up to Ackroyd's old office, where Sheppard was being questioned by Poirot and Japp.

From Quiz "Poirot": The TV Series

Answer: Pauline Moran

Primarily a stage actress, Pauline Moran stars as Poirot's secretary, Miss Lemon.

From Quiz Hercule Poirot's Christmas

Answer: Stella de Zuigder

Superintendent Sugden is one of Simeon Lee's illegitimate children, the son of Stella de Zuigder, the South African woman who saved Simeon's life when his partner had shot him. Mother and son waited and planned their revenge all these years and chose that particular time because all the Lee family would be at the mansion and all would have good reason to murder Simeon Lee.

From Quiz Hercule Poirot's Christmas

Answer: A pair of wool gloves

Poirot had opened the present earlier and wasn't exactly thrilled with it. A pair of hand made wool gloves would hardly match Poirot's polished appearance with his waxed moustache and white spats over his patent leather shoes. However, being a gentleman, he told Chief Inspector Japp that he liked his present so much he saved it only for going to church! Poirot's present to Chief Inspector Japp was a box of Jamaican cigars.

From Quiz All Will Be Revealed

Answer: Murder on the Orient Express

In the fourth episode of series twelve, originally aired in 2010, Poirot found himself on board the Orient Express when it became stuck in a snowstorm, and the unsavoury American was discovered dead, stabbed to death in his sleeping compartment. Poirot needed to discover the murderer before the train was free to move, and escape would be possible. In one of Agatha Christie's most well-known surprise endings, Poirot revealed that Ratchett was actually a fugitive named Cassetti, who had kidnapped and killed young Daisy Armstrong despite the payment of a large ransom. All the other passengers had been deeply wounded by the event and/or its aftermath, and had come together to act as a twelve-person jury to execute judgment on the man who had been the cause of their suffering. As Poirot explained, only this could explain the maze of conflicting clues that he had found. Or it might have been some unknown enemy who had secretly boarded the train, committed the murder, then escaped through the snow.

From Quiz "Poirot: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd"

Answer: He shot himself

He ended up committing suicide when he saw that he couldn't escape. Poirot took Sheppard's journal and put it in a safe deposit box.

From Quiz "Poirot": The TV Series

Answer: The Cornish Mystery

In this episode, Mrs. Pengelly comes to Poirot on the belief that her husband is slowly poisoning her. She eventually dies, and Poirot unmasks her murderer.

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