Police Quest 1 Trivia Quiz

Answer: Lytton

The first three "Police Quest" games take place in the fictional city of Lytton, California, a growing town that has a very high crime rate. The fourth "Police Quest" takes place in Los Angeles.

Answer: Taser

Sonny Bonds will need to use a gun, handcuffs, and a whip at least once in the game. He never gets a taser.

Answer: Quest For Glory

If you click the hand icon on the carpet, the game says "This isn't 'Quest For Glory' so it's never going to fly." This is a reference to Abdullah's magic carpet, which he uses to fly you to Shapeir at the end of the first game and BACK to Shapeir at the end of the second game in that series.

Answer: Lonny West

There is a big drug cartel in Lytton. This is considered to be the source of most of the crime in Lytton. Young kids used to play in the park all the time, but now they just go there to buy drugs. It turns out the drug cartel is worse than people think, as it's lead by murderers who will murder even their own kind.

Answer: Carol's Caffeine Castle

Sonny Bonds goes to Carol's twice during the game. First, he goes there to take a break from his shift, have some coffee and talk with another cop there. Later, ho goes there to deal with some rowdy bikers who parked their cars in front of Carol's but are actually in a building behind Carol's playing pool.

Answer: Marie

Marie tells Sonny about the death angel, who she believes is Marvin Hoffman. Sonny then warns Marie that that there will be an operation "Trick Trap" designed to catch the prostitutes around town. Marie will turn out to be a very important character in the "Police Quest" series: the second most important character in the series after Sonny.

Answer: Chicken

Sonny Bonds is asked to come back to the Police Station to see the chicken on John Dooley's desk. This scene is accompanied by the song "Chicken Reel," a song that Sierra has used many times that there has been a chicken. It was also used in "King Quest 4" in the room where Lolotte kept the magic chicken and Pandora's Box.

It is most commonly known among fans of Sierra games as the AstroChicken theme, a reference to a mini-game in "Space Quest 3" and a less-important mini-game in "Space Quest 4." The VGA version of "Police Quest" uses the exact same instruments and sounds as in "Space Quest 4," making it sound exactly the same in both games. Unlike most of the other games, though, the chicken has no significance in "Police Quest." It's just a rare moment of comic relief in Sierra's least funny series of "Quest" adventure games (even "King's Quest" had more humor).

Answer: The Blue Room

Sonny has to go there to try and cheer up his friend Jack, whose daughter overdosed on drugs and is now in a coma. Sonny does his best to cheer him up. He and the other cops even throw a birthday party for him, complete with a stripper dancing for him. He appreciates it, but it doesn't cheer him up much.

Answer: Give her a ticket

The pretty woman will be a different woman depending on which version of "Police Quest" you are playing, but in both versions she is a speeder. She will try to flirt her way out of the ticket. If you let her do that in the VGA version, you forfeit points. If you let her do that in the EGA version, she'll give you a phone number. If you dial that number, it will turn out to be the commissioner's wife. You will be fired, and the game will end. Just give her a ticket.

It's moments like this that make me wish more cops in the real world were like Jim Walls.

Answer: He punches you with two fists and kills you

The drunk will beg you to cuff him in front and the game will give you an option whether or not to do that. This is where police procedure becomes very important. The manual says that all men must be handcuffed in back, only women can be handcuffed in front. It may be hard to imagine what can go wrong if you cuff a man in front, so Jim Walls lets you know. Well, he doesn't animate it, but the game has a message telling you the drunk guy punched you with two fists and killed you.

It's puzzles like this that made me wonder why the "Police Quest" games needed copy protection. The police procedure in the manuals and the map of Lytton should have served as ample copy protection. But for some reason, the locker combinations in the first and third games are copy-protected and in the second game, you have to get past the copy protection before you can even begin.

Answer: Jason Taselli

If you answered "Marvin Hoffman," you are wrong because that's not his real name. He uses that name because his real name is on the FBI Most Wanted list and he doesn't want people to know that he's on it. His real name, as Sonny later finds out, is Jason Taselli.

He is the one who murdered Lonny West. He tries to escape on parole. Sonny prevents this from happening by proving to the judge that he is Jason Taselli from the FBI Most Wanted list. Taselli escapes anyway.

Answer: Laura Watt

In this game, Sonny's partner is Laura Watt. The other three are or were the partners in the other three games. Not unlike the other three guys, even though Sonny and Laura are supposed to be partners, Sonny does 90% of the work. All Laura does is capture one drug dealer and escorts him and the dealee into the jail while Sonny puts his gun in the locker.

Although Laura looks pretty and nice, she is very tough. She is not someone you want to mess around with.

Answer: Jack Cobb

These are tough times for Jack Cobb. Lytton, a formerly very pleasant city to live in, has become a town of drug dealers which has made people become drug addicts and Jack's daughter gets caught up in that mess. Sonny cheers up him just enough that he is capable of backing up Sonny when he arrests Taselli, but things later take a turn for the worse.

Answer: Kathy

Kathy was a student at Jefferson High School. Then she became a drug addict. She overdosed on drugs and fell into a coma, which turned Jack into a depressed alcoholic.

Answer: Donald Colby

At Cotton Cove, Sonny and Laura catch Colby selling drugs to a teenager. If you answered "Victor Simms," he was the teenager who bought the drugs not the guy who sold them. Sonny arrest Victor, reads him his rights and confiscates his drugs. Laura arrests Colby, who tries making sexist comments to Laura but accomplishes nothing with that. Both Sonny and Laura realize that Colby is the one who sold drugs to Kathy.