Dial "M" for Murder Trivia Quiz

Answer: Tennis

Tony was a tennis professional when he married Margot but quit after she complained he was away too much and had started an affair with American Mark Halliday (Robert Cummings); something she didn't realize he had discovered!

Answer: He wanted to inherit her money.

Tony wants to have Margot murdered because he wants to inherit her wealth. He has very little means himself since retiring from tennis. Margot is independently wealthy and he has found out she had an affair.

Answer: London, England

Tony and Margot live at 61A Charrington Gardens, London, England. Fans of the movie have tried to pin point the actual street where the movie was filmed but have not been able to find it. One researcher claims it is either near the Warwick Avenue Station or Maida Vale Station based on the directions Tony gives Swann over the phone.

Answer: writer

Mark Halliday is an American fiction crime writer. Tony asks Mark if he believes in the "perfect murder" and Mark answers that he thinks he could plan one better than most but also thinks he would likely make a stupid mistake and be found out.

Answer: an old college classmate

Tony blackmails his old college classmate, Charles Swann into murdering his wife by using his criminal past to blackmail him.

Answer: a pair of scissors

Margot grabbed a pair of scissors from the desk and used them to stab Swann in the back. Tony had given Swann a key to get into the apartment. The arrangement was for him to hide behind the curtains by the desk in the living room and Tony was to call home in an effort to make Margo answer the phone, thereby placing her conveniently by the curtains. Swann was to step out and strangle her but Margot was stronger and more determined than he thought.

She was able to grab the scissors which had been sitting on the desk and use them to stab Swann.

Answer: Tony called home and spoke to Margot.

Tony called home which was supposed to force Margo from bed to answer the phone at which point Swann was supposed to step out from behind the curtains and kill her. Tony was late calling because his watch had stopped, and Margot told him that she had killed an intruder.

Answer: The inspector in charge of the case

Mark believes Margot is innocent and asks Tony to tell the police that he killed Swann in order to stop her execution. Of course, Tony refuses but when Inspector Hubbard makes a surprise visit and Mark hides in the bedroom he finds a brief case that is full of money.

At the same time the inspector is asking Tony about the brief case and Tony tries to tell him he has lost it. Mark comes out of the bedroom and shows the inspector the brief case and the money inside it.

Answer: Chief Inspector Hubbard

Chief Inspector Hubbard asks one of his officers to take Margot's purse back to her at the station and when he hooks it over his arm, Hubbard makes the above remark.

Answer: at a bachelor party for one of Tony's friends

Tony and Mark were at a bachelor party for a friend of Tony's at his club. Tony asked Mark to attend the party with him so that he could provide an alibi for him at the time when Margot was supposed to have been killed.