Crime & Drama-O-Rama Trivia Quiz

Answer: Red John

"The Mentalist" first premiered in 2008, and introduced viewers to Patrick Jane, a man who had dedicated his life to hunting down Red John, the killer who murdered his wife and child. Played by Simon Baker, Jane proved to have somewhat of a dual personality, fluctuating between light-hearted comedy and dangerously self-destructive darkness. Throughout the series, Red John toyed with Jane mercilessly, even making him believe that he had killed him on one occasion, before Jane finally worked out the cruel truth.

Answer: "Thank you, thank you so much"

"The Closer" premiered in 2005, with Kyra Sedgwick taking on the lead role of Detective Brenda Leigh Johnson, a top-notch interrogator known for her high conviction rate. Brought in to lead Los Angeles' Major Crimes Division, Johnson initially rubbed her co-workers up the wrong way, but soon earned their respect, and in time, their friendship.

She also had plenty of quirky habits, which included stockpiling foil-wrapped Ding Dongs in her desk.

Answer: The Bill

While each of the possible answers listed above have at one time been popular slang terms for members of the police force, "The Bill" took its name from the slang term, 'the old-bill'. The pilot episode of "The Bill", entitled "Woodentop", premiered in October 1984, and the series proved to be so popular that it lasted for almost twenty-six years. Set in the fictional Sun Hill police station, the series courted plenty of controversy, so much so that in 2008 its makers were sued by MP George Galloway, who insisted that they had based a corrupt politician on him.

Answer: Midsomer Murders

DCI Tom Barnaby, played by John Nettles, was a very busy man as week in and week out, individuals were being "bumped off" in great numbers in the quaint settlement of Midsomer. Despite sounding rather grim, 'Midsomer Murders' was a rather upbeat production; in fact, the show was so family friendly that repeats of many episodes were shown on ITV, a popular British TV station, in early afternoon. Tom Nettles played Midsomer's detective chief inspector for nearly fifteen years. When he left the show in 2011, it really was the end of an era for a great programme that had fanbases all over the globe.

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Answer: Dexter

"Dexter" premiered in 2006, and revolved around blood spatter pattern analyst, Dexter Morgan, (played by Michael C. Hall), who secretly moonlighted as a serial killer. Based on the novel, "Darkly Dreaming Dexter" by Jeff Lindsay, the series' unusual main character attracted a great deal of attention, which eventually garnered it plenty of fans.

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Answer: Medical drama

"Diagnosis Murder" first hit television screens in 1993, and revolved around father and son crime-fighting team, Mark and Steve Sloan, who were played by Dick Van Dyke and his son, Barry. The series was notable in that it brought together two different genres, the crime drama and the medical drama.

Indeed while Mark was Community General Hospital's Chief of Internal Medicine, his son, Steve, was a homicide detective with the LAPD. Throughout the series their working worlds were forever colliding, so much so that many of Mark's hospital staff often had a hand in helping to solve crimes as well.

Answer: Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Created by Dick Wolf, the "Law & Order" franchise began in 1990, with its first series, "Law & Order". This wonderful police procedural drama went on to delight crime fans across the world for an incredible twenty years, spawning numerous other "Law & Order" television shows in the process, including those mentioned in the question. One of these was "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit", which first premiered in 1999, with Mariska Hargitay and Christopher Meloni taking on the roles of detectives Olivia Benson and Elliot Stabler. For twelve seasons, the pair worked together, investigating often horrific sex crimes, and catching the most heinous of criminals.

However the partnership was severed at the end of the twelfth season, when Stabler abruptly left the police force, forcing Benson to work with a new partner, Detective Nick Amaro, who was played by Danny Pino.

Answer: The BAU

"Criminal Minds" premiered in September 2005, and revolved around a group of profilers at the FBI's Behavioural Analysis Unit, otherwise known as the BAU. Their attention was, more often than not, focused on catching sadistic serial killers, but they always had to be called in by other police forces in order to investigate.

Indeed the team spent most episodes delving into the mind of the criminal, in order to predict their behaviour or discern certain details about them that would eventually lead to their capture. Veteran actor, Mandy Patinkin, played Senior Special Supervisory Agent Jason Gideon during the show's first two seasons, but reportedly sickened of its constant violence, which resulted in him leaving the series at the beginning of its third season.

Answer: Ziva David

A spin-off of "JAG", the first season of "NCIS" hit television screens in 2003, and introduced viewers to an endearing cast of characters, who all worked for the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, (otherwise known as NCIS). Led by Supervisory Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs, (played by Mark Harmon), the team did not initially include Ziva David, who did not appear until the third season, following the death of another member of Gibbs' team, Special Agent Caitlin Todd. Ziva, (who was played by Cote de Pablo), was renowned for her malapropisms, which caused many "NCIS" fans to nickname her blunders 'Ziva-isms'.

These included telling another agent that he looked like he had seen a goat, and asking whether the team minded if she took a 'bat-nap'.

Answer: Patricia Arquette

"Medium" premiered in 2005, with Patricia Arquette taking on the title role of Allison DuBois, a woman who used her supernatural powers to help solve crime. Throughout the course of the series, while also juggling a hectic home life that included a husband and three children, Allison DuBois worked as a consultant with the Phoenix district attorney's office. During the course of the series, it was revealed that Allison was not the only member of her family to be blessed with supernatural abilities, and several of the show's episodes included storylines involving her daughters, and their own burgeoning psychic powers.