Nancy Drew: Alibi In Ashes Trivia Quiz

Answer: River Heights

Nancy lives with her father Carson Drew in the city of River Heights. Her mother died at an early age. The family is assisted by housekeeper Hannah Gruen. The last inhabitant of the house is dog Toto. The location of River Heights was never specified in the Nancy Drew books. It is generally considered to be somewhere in the midwestern part of the United States. The city is near Bayport, where Frank and Joe Hardy live. Frank and Joe are also detectives. Nancy has traveled to New York in game two of the series "Stay Tuned For Danger", where she tries to solve the mystery of someone threatening a soap star. In game three of the series she visited San Francisco. In this game called "Message In A Haunted Mansion", she tries to find out who is sabotaging the renovation of a mansion.

In this game "Alibi In Ashes" Nancy enters the annual Clue Challenge in her home town. Teams have to follow cryptic clues in order to find a specific location. At that location they will find a medal. The winners will be able to put something of their choice in the time capsule to be buried at the end of the challenge. The unique premise of this game is that you will not only play as Nancy (like in the other games), but can also switch to her friends Bess, George and Ned to perform specific tasks within the game.

Answer: The building is set on fire

Nancy follows a clue found on her porch to the old Town Hall. When she is inside the building, she finds herself locked in one of the rooms. She sees an ice cube near the thermostat. Suddenly the building is on fire. She needs to climb on some furniture to be able to leave the room and find her way out of the burning building.

When she finds her way out through a side door, she is surprised to find several people already gathered there on the lawn looking at the fire. A pesky reporter starts interviewing her, but the police stop her from continuing the interview. It pretty soon gets clear that arson is suspected. Considering the fact that Nancy suddenly exited the burning building at the height of the fire, Nancy quickly finds herself being labeled the prime suspect.

Answer: Mabel Rose

When Nancy leaves the burning building, she finds several people there. All of the people that were early on the scene are later identified as possible suspects for arson.

Brenda Carlton is the reporter for local news channel Heights Nine News. She would like to make it to one of the national news channels, as she is very ambitious. Often Nancy as an ace detective cracks a case before Brenda can get the scoop. This makes Brenda very jealous of Nancy. Deirdre Shannon is a spoilt rich girl, who dislikes Nancy a lot. She does like Nancy's boyfriend Ned though, constantly trying to impress him. Alexei Markovic is the owner of the local antique store. He was once a teen detective like Nancy. He was framed by a local politician and ended up disgraced. The fourth suspect is Toni Scallari, a local councilwoman, who also owns an ice cream shop called "Scoop". Toni thinks Nancy makes the council look bad by always solving crimes.

Mabel Rose is a place that one of Nancy's friends needs to visit during the game to follow the trail of Detective Ryan. He lost his key and this is one of the places he may have lost it. The key opens the evidence locker at the police station.

Answer: She knocks over a vase

Nancy is allowed by Chief McGinnis to leave the holding cell. She can call her friends to direct them to look for clues. All the clues can be collected on an evidence board. Once Nancy finds enough clues to incriminate other suspects, the Chief will let her out of jail.

For most tasks any of her friends can perform them. There are certain tasks that one of her friends will not be able to do. One of such cases happens when Bess enters the antique store. She knocks over one of the priceless vases and gets banned from the store and yelled at by owner Alexei Markovic. There are several clues to be found at the store, so Nancy will have to get either George or Ned to do the research there.

Answer: Isopropyl alcohol

At the time of her arrest it is found Nancy had gasoline on her clothes. This is a possible fire accelerant. Nancy wants to determine what accelerant was used so she can determine which suspect may have set off the fire. All the other accelerants in the answer options are somehow found in the game.

The acetone is found in Brenda's Heights Nine News van, which is parked outside the antique store. Ether is found in a locked trunk in the antique store and toluene is located in a supply closet at the ice cream shop. After one of Nancy's friends takes a sample at the point of origin of the fire, Nancy can test it using a gas chromatograph machine. The result of the test shows the fire accelerant used is Isopropyl alcohol.

Answer: Eating ice cream

Bess gets the task of observing Deirdre Shannon, who often hangs out at the local ice cream shop. Bess is friendly with the owner Toni Scallari and therefore pretends to eat ice cream there, so she can see what Deirdre does. Deirdre however does not move and Bess is left eating lots of bowls of ice cream. In a dramatic monologue Bess complains she may freeze to death because of her task. She will have to gradually get back to eating food at room temperature.

At one point Ned manages to convince Deirdre to go out on a date with him. This leaves Bess to look at her notebook and find a speeding ticket, eventually placing Deirdre near the crime scene when the alarm at the old Town Hall was switched off. Ned is a little reluctant to ask Deirdre out as he is naturally very much in love with Nancy. Nancy herself convinces him to do so, as it is needed to solve the case.

Answer: Someone throws a rock through the window

When Nancy and George talk, someone throws a rock through the window. Nancy was always very popular in her home town, solving many local crimes as a detective. In this case the people soon turn on her, as they think that Nancy burned down their beloved old Town Hall. Nancy realizes she needs to solve the case quickly in order to find the real criminal, before the town really turns on her.

Most of the other suspects stay hostile towards her, as they are either jealous of Nancy or carrying a grudge against her. Nancy is surprised to find an ally in Alexei Markovic. As a former teen detective who was disgraced, he knows how it feels when people suddenly turn their backs on you. He was framed by a politician called J.P. Bennington, supposedly having stolen a priceless artifact. Bennington hid it in the time capsule. Nancy eventually finds that time capsule, that fortunately was not lost in the fire of the old Town Hall. The artifact is found inside, clearing Alexei of the crime after all those years.

Answer: Hidden tunnels under the city

Nancy finds out that Brenda's van is parked outside the antique store. It is parked there, just over the entrance to the hidden tunnels under the city. This allows Brenda to quickly go around town, even in very dense traffic.

Nancy finds out that the culprit may have used the tunnels to store the fire accelerant and quickly get to the old Town Hall to frame Nancy. In order to get through the tunnels, she needs to find the key to one of the storage rooms in the tunnels. In that room she finds incriminating evidence to get the real culprit arrested.

Answer: Pancake City

Nancy overhears a conversation between Detective Ryan and Chief McGinnis. The detective thinks he lost the key to the evidence locker at Pancake City, the local pancake restaurant. The Chief is furious, suggesting he will need to flip over Pancake City to find the key. When Detective Ryan asks whether this is meant to be sarcastic, the Chief threatens to fire the rookie cop.

Eventually the keys turns out to be at the antique store, trapped in a weird contraption. One of Nancy's friends needs to open it, in order to find the key and drop it off a the police station for Nancy to use. In the evidence locker Nancy finds all the evidence found at the crime scene. This includes the evidence that the alarm was switched off there in the afternoon. Nancy's friends then go out to look whether all the suspects have an alibi for that time.

Answer: Brenda Carlton

Brenda Carlton turns out to be the culprit. She is insanely jealous of Nancy for preventing her from getting the scoop on a big story about antiquities fraud. If Brenda had covered the story, she may have had a chance at a national news channel. Nancy however solved the case, before Brenda could report on it.

Brenda eventually traps Nancy in the hidden tunnels. Nancy manages to find a way out through a series of mazes. Incidentally she finds the medal for the Clues Challenge. Her team gets to put something in the time capsule, although Nancy does not reveal what they put in. Alexei is asked to become a curator for a new history museum in town. Toni is found to have forced the police to arrest Nancy. She then removes her name from the ballot for the upcoming elections. Deirdre throws a party for the Clues Challenge. Naturally Nancy is not invited, but Ned is.