"And Then There Were None": How Did They Die? Quiz

Answer: Poison

Anthony Marston choked on cyanide that was dropped into his glass. No one noticed, because it was just after a recording was played accusing everyone there of causing the death of one or more people. He'd been the driver in a hit and run accident, and had shown no remorse for his actions.

It wasn't until later that Rogers noticed the missing Indian boy from the display on the dining room table.

Answer: Poison

After hearing the accusations, Ethel Rogers collapsed and was helped to bed. The murderer put a lethal dose of a sleeping draught in a glass of brandy that was being taken up to her. Under the influence of her husband, she'd been involved in a plot to allow their ailing employer to die when he didn't go for help in a timely fashion.

Answer: Blow to the head

While General Macarthur was sitting alone outside, the murderer hit him in the head from behind. He'd sent his wife's lover on what amounted to a suicide mission during WWI, causing his death.

Answer: Blow to the head

Thomas Rogers was killed by an axe blow to his head while chopping wood for the fire before breakfast. Because the murderer considered him to be the main person responsible in the death of his former employer, his wife suffered less in her death than he did. That was part of the plan, to make the people who'd committed the more severe crimes to live long enough to become paranoid toward each other and everything around them.

Answer: Poison

Emily Brent had a small amount of sleeping draught put in her morning coffee, and with her almost unconscious, the murderer injected a dose of cyanide in her. In order to stay with the nursery rhyme theme, a bumblebee was left at the scene. She'd self-righteously sent a girl working for her away because she'd become pregnant, and in despair, the girl killed herself.

Answer: Suicide

The trick question of the bunch, of course. As the 5 nervous survivors kept watch on each other with only candles available to light the house, Vera had run into some seaweed hanging from the ceiling in her room when she went upstairs, and as everyone was going upstairs, Justice Wargrave, who was the murderer all along, was decked out with a scarlett bath curtain, some wool, and red plaster on his forehead with the help of the Doctor. Everyone assumed he was dead, and left the presumably dead body in his room.

His only crimes were the ones listed in the novel, but a trial in which many people thought he'd improperly turned the jury against the defendant was referenced. He would commit suicide eventually, but we'll save that for a bit later in the quiz.

Answer: Other

Doctor Armstrong didn't think the Judge was the murderer, which was a big mistake. Wargrave, who certainly qualified as a red herring, pushed Armstrong off a cliff and into the sea, where he drowned. The doctor had operated on a patient early in his career while drunk, and accidentally killed her.

Answer: Blow to the head

The survivors spent the day trying to signal the mainland with a mirror. William Blore was killed by a bear-shaped clock that was dropped on his head by the Judge who saw him walking up to the house while Vera and Lombard were still at the beach. While a policeman, he'd set up an innocent man for a crime, and the man later died in prison.

Answer: Other

Vera Claythorne and Lombard were staying in the open, on the assumption that Doctor Armstrong was in the house, when they found his body. She stole Lombard's revolver while they were moving the Doctor's body out of the water, and when he lunged at her, she shot him dead. Lombard had been stuck out in the wild with a group of native soldiers under his command, and took the supplies and left them to die in order to save himself. If you've seen the movie versions of the story, this is normally the key point where the story is changed, with the person everyone assumed was Lombard turning out to be an innocent aquaintance; so Vera pretends to shoot him, and they find the Judge and survive.

Answer: Suicide

Vera, in a guilt-ridden state of shock by now, goes back to her room, finds a noose set up and waiting for her, and commits suicide. She had let her fiancee's younger brother go too far out to sea and drown because her love would benefit from it. The Judge then makes what may be his most brilliant move of the whole operation.

He sets the chair she stood on in the corner with her footprints on it, then lays on his bed with the gun and shoots himself in the forehead while protecting Vera's fingerprints.

A set up involving an elastic cord, his glasses, the door, and the gun, leaves 10 people dead and the gun with Vera's fingerprints on it in the hall. Based on the known sequence of murders that was noted by several of the people on the island, there was no apparent way that anyone could have been alive to tidy things up after Vera died.

The only way that the police figure out what happened is because he put a signed confession in a sealed bottle and threw it out to sea, where a ship captain found it.