Inquizition's Common Bond4

Answer: Nemesis

'Nemesis' was the avenging goddess of justice. 'Nike' was the Greek goddess of victory, 'Apollo' was the Greek and Roman god of poetry and 'Athena', the Greek goddess of war.

Answer: Jane

Jane Austen (British novelist), Jane Seymour (The third wife of Henry VIII of England) or (the British actress whose real name is Joyce Frankenberg), Jane Fonda (American actress), "Jane Eyre" (a novel by Charlotte Bronte) and Jane Goodall (A great conservationist and the world's foremost authority on chimpanzees)

Answer: Curtain

'Torn Curtain' was an Alfred Hitchcock 1966 Cold War thriller about an American scientist, played by Paul Newman, pretending to be a defector. Julie Andrews starred in the movie.

Answer: Clarissa

This British novelist (1689-1761) also wrote 'Pamela' (1740) and 'Sir Charles Grandison' (1753).

Answer: Dame

Dame Edith Evans (British actress '1888-1976'), Dame Margot Fonteyn (British ballet dancer whose real name was Margaret Hookham), Dame Myra Hess (British pianist '1890-1965'), Dame Alicia Markova (British ballet dancer whose real name was Lilian Alicia Marks) and Dame Nellie Melba (Australian soprano '1861-1931' whose name at birth was Helen Porter Armstrong).

Answer: Margaret Rutherford

Margaret Rutherford seemed to play the role of somebody's slightly dotty spinster aunt but was an endearing British comedy actress. She married actor Stringer Davis who played small roles in movies of his wife such as 'Murder Most Foul' and 'Murder Ahoy'.

Answer: The Orient Express

The sumptuously furnished express ran for more than 80 years (1883-1977) travelling from west to east and then back. Its name 'Orient', was derived from another word for 'east'. Belgian engineer, Georges Nagelmackers introduced sleeping-car trains with private cabins with a door leading to a side corridor.

He required the same style of 'George Mortimer Pullman' carriages he had seen in the United States.

Answer: Vanessa Redgrave

Sir Michael Redgrave was a tall British actor and former schoolmaster. His actress daughters were Vanessa and Lynn. Corin was his son who starred in 'Excalibur' (1981) and 'Four Weddings and a Funeral'(1994).

Answer: Hercule

He was made cardinal in 1726 and remained the guiding spirit in French politics until his death in 1743. He was tutor to the young Louis XV and aged 73 he was the chief advisor to the king and virtual ruler of France (1726-43)

Answer: Agatha Christie

Lets hope your great powers of detection lead you to Dame Agatha Christie. Her work has been screened on television and at the movies. She is the world's best known mystery writer outsold only by Shakespeare and the bible. Let us consider the evidence. Q1 'Nemesis' was the title of one of her novels. Q2 Miss (Jane) Marple was the shrewdly inquisitive lady of St Mary Mead who first appeared in 'Murder at the Vicarage (1930). Q3 Torn (Curtain) was the novel in which Hercule Poirot was killed in 1975. I suppose we can say it was 'curtains' for him (the end). Q4 Dame Agatha Mary (Clarissa) Christie was her full name (1890-1976) Agatha Miller was born in Torquay, England and married Colonel Archibald Christie and had a daughter, Rosalind, before her divorce in 1928. Q5 She was made a (Dame) Commander, Order of the British Empire in 1971. Q6 (Margaret Rutherford) played Miss Marple in all the mentioned movies. Q7 'Murder on (The Orient Express)' was an Agatha Christie whodunit set in the 1930's. Q8 (Vanessa Redgrave) played the part of Agatha Christie in the 1979 movie 'Agatha' about the fictional speculation on Christie's famous 11 day disappearance in 1926 after she was jilted by her cadish husband. Q9 Andre (Hercule) de Fleury.

Hercule Poirot was the eccentric detective who first appeared in Agatha Christie's first novel 'The Mysterious Affair at Styles' (1920). She married her second husband, archaeologist Sir Max Mallowan. On trips around the world with him she was inspired to write 'Death on the Nile'.