Three Blind Mice Trivia Quiz

Answer: Mrs. Lyons

When Mrs. Casey answers the door, she sees a man silhouetted in the the doorway. In a whispery voice, he asks for Mrs. Lyons. She sends him to the second floor, and as he disappears around the staircase, she hears him softly whistling "Three Blind Mice".

Answer: She had been stabbed several times in the chest.

We find out from Inspector Parminter and Detective Sergeant Kane of Scotland Yard that the woman found strangled at Culver Street was actually Maureen Gregg. She had just been released a couple of months earlier from Holloway. Pinned to her body was a piece of paper with the words "This is the first", a drawing of three mice, and a bar of music from the tune "Three Blind Mice".

Answer: A small notebook

Two workmen stopped a heavily bundled-up man and asked him for a match near Culver Street. When he gave them the match, he accidentally dropped a small notebook. The man hurried away before they could give it back to him. Written inside were the words "Three Blind Mice" and "74 Culver Street; Monkswell Manor".

After the murder at 74 Culver Street, the workmen took the notebook to Scotand Yard.

Answer: Monkswell Manor

Housing was scarce after the WW! Molly had inheirted the rambling country house from her Aunt Katherine. The house was in good repair and furnished with good, solid Victorian furniture. Molly and her husband, Giles, decided to open a guest house.

Answer: True

They never thought to ask any of their guests for references before renting them a room. As Mr. Paravicini told Molly, "It is advisable always to know a little about the people who sleep under your roof."

Answer: Christopher Wren

A young man calling himself Christopher Wren was the first to arrive at Monkswell Manor. He tells Giles and Molly that he was named after the famous architect. The beauty of the story is that very few of the guests actually are who they say they are.

Answer: Mr. Paravicini

Mr. Paravicini shows up in the middle of the night without any luggage. He tells Giles that his car overturned in a snowbank.

Answer: Three foster children abused by a farmer and his wife during WWII

"Three Blind Mice. See how they run. See how they run. They all ran after the farmer's wife. She cut off their tails with a carving knife. Did you ever see such a sight in your life As Three Blind Mice."
Sgt. Trotter tells them, that to the killer, the three blind mice in the nursery rhyme represents three neglected, abused children that were placed with a farmer and his wife, the Greggs, during the War. One of the children, a little boy, died. Now the killer is out to revenge the "three blind mice".

Answer: They were snowbound and the telephone lines were cut.

It was bad enough that a blizzard had all the guests stranded at Monkswell Manor, but the telephone lines had been cut, too! As for the other choices, even I do not have such an avid imagination! Each of these plots were used with delightful results by Dame Agatha Christie herself in the following mysteries: "Then There Were None" (also published as "Ten Little Niggers" and "Ten Little Indians"), and the Hercule Poirot and Mrs. Oliver mysteries "Cards On The Table and "Halloween Party".

Answer: She was strangled with a tie from a raincoat.

Mrs. Boyles was a very bossy, fault-finding kind of lady--not nice at all. She had also been the billeting officer that had sent the three children to live at Longridge Farm in 1940.

Answer: True

Giles finds a bus ticket in Molly's glove, and the Sergeant shows Molly a copy of a London newspaper dated Feb. 19th, the day of the Culver Street Murder. Each begins to suspect the other. How are you coming on solving the mystery? Stepped in any mousetraps, yet?

Answer: Fortnight (two weeks)

Molly and Giles meet during the War. Life seemed different then--more urgent. They married two weeks after they meet. Each starts to find out just how little they actually know about the other.

Answer: Skis

Trotter's skis were missing from the closet under the staircase where Giles put them.

Answer: Asks her to play the "Three Blind Mice" on the piano.

The killer asks Molly to count to fifty and then play the tune "The Blind Mice" on the piano. This was to get her alone. The killer thinks that Molly was the teacher that one of Longridge Farm children wrote to, begging for help. I have given you all the clues, so do you know who the killer is? If not, then rest assured that Dame Agatha left me guessing to the very last, too! I am not going to reveal the killer here. If you have read "Three Blind Mice" then you already know. If you haven't read it, revealing the ending would be a crime. Please read it and see if you can solve Christie's masterpiece of suspense. Just watch out for her carefully laid mousetrap.

Answer: True

Yes, the play "The Mousetrap" holds the record as being the longest-running play in the history of modern theatre, running since its opening on Nov. 25, 1952! The book I read that contained the novella "Three Blind Mice" is entitled "Three Blind Mice and Other Stories" (1950). It was also published as "The Mousetrap".