The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie Quiz

Answer: Buckshaw

Bishop's Lacey is the nearby village, while Dodderington is the closest town with a railway stop. Buckshaw is a large, decaying estate, which the family might lose if nothing is done to restore their finances.

Answer: Ophelia

Ophelia, age 17, is an accomplished pianist, while Daphne, 13, is an avid reader. Both delight in harassing their little sister, but Flavia can definitely hold her own with them. They taunt her by saying she was adopted. Flavia retaliates by dissolving Feely's pearls in acid and infusing a box of chocolates with noxious gas.

Answer: She doctors her lipstick with a poison ivy concoction

Flavia believes in long-range planning. She distills the juice of the poison ivy plant, melts down Feely's lipstick, mixes the two together, and then reshapes the lipstick in a bullet mold. She then observes her sister's mouth every day and makes notes in her journal as to the results of her experiment.

Answer: nervous spells, caused by his time as a Japanese POW

Arthur Wellesley Dogger served with Flavia's father, Col. de Luce, during WWII. He was taken prisoner in the Pacific and spent most of the war in a Japanese concentration camp. The experience left him emotionally fragile, suffering from what is nowadays classified as post-traumatic stress syndrome.

Answer: her bicycle

The old BSA bicycle first belonged to Harriet, Flavia's dead mother. Her original name was "L'Hirondelle", French for "the swallow", but Flavia renamed her Gladys.

Answer: a very rare stamp

Despite the dramatic name, the Ulster Avenger was one of two rare stamps from the time of Queen Victoria. They were printed in orange ink and were meant as a signal to Northern Irish forces to rise in rebellion again the Empire.

Answer: Vale

The word - pronounced "vah-lay" - means farewell in Latin. It was also the last word supposedly spoken by Grenville Twining before he committed suicide. This, plus the stamp in the jack snipe's beak, connects the two deaths.

Answer: Philatelic Society & the Conjuring Circle

Horace Bonepenny used his conjuring skills to perform a very un-PC trick called "The Resurrection of TChang-Fu". During the act, he snatched up the Headmaster's valuable stamp and appeared to burn it up. Bonepenny used slight-of-hand to hide the stamp. Years later, he also stole the other Ulster Avenger from the Royal Philatelic Society, where it was on loan from the personal collection of King George VI.

Answer: the chemical processes needed to make each color of glass

The white of the whale was made by adding tin to the molten glass, Jonah's skin had a brown tinge due to ferric iron, and a loaf of yellow bread got its color from silver chloride. To Flavia, chemical formulae are the recipes for the whole world, and she is never happier than when she is concocting some new experiment in her lab. She is especially interested in poisons.

Answer: threw himself off the school bell tower

The story was that Twining was so distraught by the destruction of the Headmaster's priceless stamp, he committed suicide by throwing himself off the tower roof, in full view of the schoolboys below. In reality, it was Horace Bonepenny wearing Twining's robe, while his accomplice, Bob Stanley, threw the teacher's body off the roof.