Death Du Jour Trivia Quiz

Answer: Nun

Sister Elisabeth Nicolet was being submitted for sainthood, so Tempe had been asked by the church to unearth her remains. The nun was not in her first resting place, so the process took longer than expected in the frigid Canadian weather. Where she was buried was inside a church that had been closed in 1914.

They did eventually locate the sister, and Tempe was able to examine the bones. Unfortunately, the bones held a secret that led Tempe into further researching the sister's birth back in 1846.

Answer: Mathias and Malachy

The house fire had been intense, and initially the babies and their parents went undiscovered. Tempe did a cursory examine on two unknown bodies upstairs, and then went on to examine and exhume the body found in the basement. That body belonged to the person renting the home.

She was an older woman, thought to be close to her seventies, named Patrice Simonnet. The babies and their parents, Brian and Heidi, were found in an outbuilding the next day. Detective Ryan found out more information on the mother, Heidi Schneider.

She was from Sugar Land, Texas (my home town actually), but she and Brian had been in South Caroline until they moved to Montreal. The bodies upstairs were later determined to have been the killers, who then killed themselves.

Answer: Her sister, Harry

Harry had recently left her current husband and was into some new gimmick. Apparently, Harry was usually into one whim or another and had spent most of her life in Texas. When she "aced" a class on some new kind of life therapy (which she wanted to go on and teach herself), it led her to Montreal. So, she spent some time with her sister before Tempe had to return to Charlotte. The course she was taking was actually a cult preying on people in turmoil.

Russ is the brother of the Temperance Brennan on the series "Bones".

Answer: True

Tempe had known Sam for twenty years, and had come to Beaufort to help Detective Ryan run down information about Heidi Schneider's stay on Saint Helena Island, in South Carolina. Sam loaned/rented (it was unclear) the Melanie Tess to Tempe and Katy. Tempe was impressed with the upgrades he'd done to the boat. He also owned Murtry Island, a monkey sanctuary. The monkeys were owned by the FDA, but Sam maintained the island and cared for the animals. Katy had a college project she was working on during her spring break, and the island offered a great place to do research. Unfortunately, it also turned out to be a great place to hide a body (make that two bodies), and Tempe was drawn into an excavation she did not want to do.

As far as I could discover, there is no real Murtry Island off the coast of South Carolina.

Answer: They spotted a monkey with a human jawbone

Sam was furious when they realized a person was dead on the island. The island was not known to the media, and he wanted to keep it that way. The monkeys were vulnerable to human viruses, like tuberculosis, and he did not want to endanger them. He demanded that Tempe do the excavation, but she flatly refused. It turned out that Sam got his way, as the local forensic anthropologist was in Bosnia. She found another body under the first one as she slowly cleared out the earth deeper and deeper.

Booth is not Sam's dog at all, but the name of the FBI Agent Brennan works with on "Bones".

Answer: Birdie

When she returned from her quick trip to Canada, she called out for the cat, but Pete had not brought him home. When she did pick him up from Pete's house (once her house as well), Pete offered her a meal and then some. She turned down the "then some" part of his offer, and ended up having an intense moment with Ryan on Sam's boat.

There was a moment later on when a burning cat was thrown through her window (at home in Charlotte), and Tempe believed it was Birdie. Thankfully, Birdie returned home a day later, safe and sound.

Answer: Jaques Guillion

Tempe was amazed at how the cult tied back to her in so many ways. Her sister Harry was from Texas, Harris County mostly, which is touching Fort Bend County. The Saint Helena property was in Beaufort, South Carolina, so near to her friend Sam Rayburn, and also the state which Tempe called home. Then, back to Canada where Tempe worked most summers. The man owned all the property in name, but Andrew Ryan told Tempe he was most likely buried somewhere on that property in Fort Bend County. Jennifer Cannon was one of the women found on Sam's monkey island, a victim of a brutal retaliation by the leader of the cult.

I've lived in Fort Bend County most of my life. I enjoyed this commonality between myself and the story.

Answer: They revealed she was of mixed race

Her mother, Eugenia, had left for Paris in March 1845 and traveled aboard ship with a man named Abo Gabassa. He was an African man, well educated in Germany, and was a professor at the University of Halle. He was trying to persuade Europe to trade legally with Africa, but not engage in the slave trade at all. Eugenia's husband Alain had never met up with her while she was in Europe, but she'd come home with a baby girl a year later. Elisabeth's father was a black man, and in 1846 (and years to follow) that was looked down upon in America, especially in upper-crust circles of society.

It was assumed that giving Elisabeth to the convent at such an early age (I believe she was 11) was all Eugenia could think to do to protect her daughter.

Answer: Elaborate multidelusional psychosis

Elle believed that earth was on the cusp of an ecological apocalypse and that she was destined to lead 56 people away from it, and then they would repopulate the world. Sylvia herself had been a severely abused young girl, who had basically done a delusional re-branding of herself.

D.I.D., or dissociative identity disorder, was previously known as split personality disorder and multiple personality disorder, and has also been believed to be caused by horrific trauma. Capgras syndrome presents when a person believes someone important in their life has been replaced by one or more identical substitutes. Reduplicative paramnesia happens when a person thinks a place exists in more than one space/time simultaneously. This last condition was first diagnosed in 1903.

Answer: True

They'd shared an intense, yet brief, moment of intimacy on the boat earlier in the book. A few days later, he told her that he cared about her and would probably try again. When they arrived at the final destination of Elle's cult, Detective Andrew Ryan was shot, and Tempe knocked unconscious. Fortunately, he'd radioed their location, and they were saved before Elle could execute Tempe by means of a vicious dog attack. Ryan spent four hours in surgery to repair a perforated lung, three broken ribs, and a gunshot into one of his muscles (he wasn't specific about which one). So, after he was released from the hospital, he flew to Charlotte to spend time with Tempe.