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Who Dunnit - A Quiz Murder Mystery

The answers to the questions are the titles of Agatha Christie novels. The questions and answers form a consecutive narrative. It's like playing consequences!

A multiple-choice quiz by balaton. Estimated time: 4 mins.

Author
balaton

Time
4 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
364,910

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Average

Avg Score
7 / 10

Plays
629

Awards
Top 20% Quiz

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Question 1 of 10

1. Who is the Agatha Christie hero who begins our story today? He sits back in his corner and stares moodily at nothing.

____________ looked like any ordinary traveler as he huddled in his corner and stared sullenly at his fellow passenger, a rather smart young lady.

Hint

TheThird Man

The Man in the Brown Suit

The Mayor of Casterbridge

Oliver Twist

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Question 2 of 10

2. What Agatha Christie title tells us how is he traveling?

The _____________ sped through the English countryside as dusk fell. A missing light bulb meant that the carriage was dark and depressing. Hint

Stagecoach

Last Bus to Woodstock

4.50 from Paddington

Stamboul Train

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Question 3 of 10

3. Suddenly he addressed his companion. They had been discussing the case of a murdered baby and whether he had been killed by his nanny or by his mother.
What question, an Agatha Christie title, did he ask? Hint

Who Killed Cock Robin?

Can You Forgive Her ?

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

N or M?

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Question 4 of 10

4. The young lady's reply was laconic and decided. What did she say?
(Remember - it must be an Agatha Christie title!)

Hint

You Never Can Tell

Partners in Crime

Time Will Tell

Lord Lucan Did It

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Question 5 of 10

5. Suddenly the carriage door opened and a wild looking young man burst in. His first exclamation echoed through the carriage. After a moment he continued more collectedly, "I am the boyfriend of the baby's nurse - the minor character whom you never suspect! I killed the baby because he reminded me of my cruel stepfather!" What was his first, Christie inspired, exclamation? Hint

You Can Tell the World !

Never, Never - Never, Never!

Surprise, Surprise!

I Confess!

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Question 6 of 10

6. "It's no good", he continued. "My conscience is torturing me. I want to put my _____________________."

What, in the words of the immortal Agatha Christie, completes his sentence? Hint

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Cards on the Table

Room at the Top

Little House on the Prairie

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Question 7 of 10

7. "I put the foreign substance in the baby's feeding bottle!"

What was it? The answer is an Agatha Christie title. Hint

Whisky Galore

A handful of Dust

Strong Poison

Sparkling Cyanide

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Question 8 of 10

8. The girl was horrified. "That poor baby!" she cried. "Everyone knows that
_________________."

Finish her sentence with a Christie title.

Hint

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

Tender is the Night

Death Comes as the End

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

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Question 9 of 10

9. "I have a final question," said the man. What title from Agatha Christie do you think the question could have been?

Hint

Who Was Oswald Fish?

Where's Spot?

Quo Vadis?

Why Didn't They Ask Evans?

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Question 10 of 10

10. "I'm glad that's settled," cried the girl, "Now let's pop along to the buffet car."
What did they - consuming a title from Agatha Christie - have there? Hint

Cider with Rosie

Black Coffee

Cakes and Ale

Mr Weston's Good Wine

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. Who is the Agatha Christie hero who begins our story today? He sits back in his corner and stares moodily at nothing. ____________ looked like any ordinary traveler as he huddled in his corner and stared sullenly at his fellow passenger, a rather smart young lady.

Answer: The Man in the Brown Suit

"The Third Man" is by Graham Greene. Thomas Hardy wrote "The Mayor of Casterbridge". "Oliver Twist" is by Charles Dickens.

"The Man in the Brown Suit" is more a thriller than a detective story. Hercule Poirot does not appear in it, though we do meet Colonel Race for the first time. It portrays a world of diamond thieves and political intrigue.

2. What Agatha Christie title tells us how is he traveling? The _____________ sped through the English countryside as dusk fell. A missing light bulb meant that the carriage was dark and depressing.

Answer: 4.50 from Paddington

"Last Bus to Woodstock" is an Inspector Morse mystery by Colin Dexter. Graham Greene wrote "Stamboul Train". "Stagecoach" is a 1939 John Wayne Western film.

"4.50 from Paddington" features Mrs McGillicuddy, who sees a murder from a train window and is unable to convince the authorities of her story until of course Miss Marple appears on the scene!

3. Suddenly he addressed his companion. They had been discussing the case of a murdered baby and whether he had been killed by his nanny or by his mother. What question, an Agatha Christie title, did he ask?

Answer: N or M?

"Who killed Cock Robin?" is an English nursery rhyme. "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" is a play by Edward Albee. Anthony Trollope wrote "Can You Forgive Her?" in 1864 as the first in his Palliser series.

"N or M?" features Tommy and Tuppence Beresford. It is an espionage thriller in which the couple are middle aged and written off as being too old to be of use in the war effort. Not true, of course!

4. The young lady's reply was laconic and decided. What did she say? (Remember - it must be an Agatha Christie title!)

Answer: Partners in Crime

"Partners in crime" involves Tommy and Tuppence again. It is a collection of short stories about the adventures and criminal investigations of the newly wed Tommy and Tuppence Beresford who have taken over a London detective agency.

"You Never Can Tell" is a play by George Bernard Shaw (as well as a Chuck Berry song). "Time Will Tell" is a first historical novel, published in 2012, by Donald Greig. Just kidding about Lord Lucan!

Answer: Surprise, Surprise!

"Never, Never - Never, Never!" is an Anthony Trollope short story of 1875.
"I Confess!" is a 1953 Hitchcock film starring Montgomery Clift and Anne Baxter. "You Can Tell the World" is, of course, a Simon and Garfunkel song.

"Surprise Surprise!" is a collection of short stories all of which appear in other collections. Both Hercule Poirot and Jane Marple appear in them. It has nothing to do with a Cilla Black Television game show of the same name!

6. "It's no good", he continued. "My conscience is torturing me. I want to put my _____________________." What, in the words of the immortal Agatha Christie, completes his sentence?

Answer: Cards on the Table

In "Cards on the Table" the villainous Mr Shaitana invites eight people to a dinner and bridge party. Four are detectives and four are people suspected but not convicted of earlier murders. During the evening he is himself murdered.

Tennessee Williams wrote the play "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof". "Room at the Top" was written by John Braine. "Little House on the Prairie" is the brainchild of Laura Ingalls Wilder.

7. "I put the foreign substance in the baby's feeding bottle!" What was it? The answer is an Agatha Christie title.

Answer: Sparkling Cyanide

"Whisky Galore" is a 1947 novel by Compton Mackenzie, later made into comedy film. Dorothy Sayers wrote the Lord Peter Wimsey mystery "Strong Poison". "A Handful of Dust" is a book by Evelyn Waugh.

"Sparkling Cyanide" is an expansion of an earlier short story entitled "Yellow Iris". Colonel Race appears in the story but Hercule Poirot does not. The story has been adapted for TV and film several times under various titles and with some alterations.

8. The girl was horrified. "That poor baby!" she cried. "Everyone knows that _________________." Finish her sentence with a Christie title.

Answer: Death Comes as the End

"Tender is the Night" was written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" is by Ken Kesey. Anita Loos wrote "Gentlemen prefer Blondes".

"Death Comes as the End" is set in Thebes in 2000 BC, and is the first novel to combine historical fiction with the detective story. The story is told from the viewpoint of Renisenb, a young widow.

9. "I have a final question," said the man. What title from Agatha Christie do you think the question could have been?

Answer: Why Didn't They Ask Evans?

"Who was Oswald Fish?" is a book by A.N. Wilson. "Quo Vadis?" is a book originally written in Polish by Henry Sienkiewicz. "Where's Spot?" is a delightful children's book by Eric Hill.

In "Why Didn't They Ask Evans?" a young man finds the body of a dying man on a golf course and as he dies the man asks this question. Evans eventually turns out to be a parlour maid at the vicarage but what they had to ask you must find for yourself! It's a good story!

10. "I'm glad that's settled," cried the girl, "Now let's pop along to the buffet car." What did they - consuming a title from Agatha Christie - have there?

Answer: Black Coffee

"Cider with Rosie" is a book by Laurie Lee. "Cakes and Ale" is by Somerset Maugham. "Mr Weston's Good Wine" was written by T.F.Powys.

"Black Coffee" is a Christie play produced initially in 1930. Hercule Poirot and Arthur Hastings are called in by a famous physicist but find that he has been murdered, an important formula having been stolen.

Source: Author balaton

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