Maria Hudgins, Travel Mysteries


 

 

Mystery Trivia:
(Answers at the end)


1. What was Sherlock Holmes's landlady's name?
     a. Mary Eddoes
     b. Irene Adler
     c. Charlotte Watson
     d. Mrs. Hudson

2. Agatha Christie's dear old sleuth, Miss Marple, lived in what small English village?
     a. St. Mary Mead
     b. Chipping Cleghorn
     c. Long Norton
     d. Bury St. Edmonds

3. Colin Dexter's Inspector Morse refused to tell people his first name. What was it?
     a. Blenheim
     b. Shirley
     c. Endeavour
     d. Capability

4. Margaret Maron's protagonist, Judge Deborah Knott, had a father with an unusual source of income. What was it?
     a. Quilting
     b. Bounty hunting
     c. Bootlegging
     d. Carnival barker

5. Peter Lovesey's sleuth, Peter Diamond, is a widower. What caused his wife's death?
     a. Drug abuse
     b. Murder
     c. Suicide
     d. Lightning

6. Death of an Obnoxious Tourist is set in Italy, primarily Florence. In what Florentine building can you see Michelangelo's David?
     a. The Accademia
     b. The Uffizi
     c. The Museo Nazionale del Bargello
     d. The Museo Dell'Opera

7. Which of these authors was never a member of the Detection Club?
     a. Dorothy L. Sayers
     b. G. K. Chesterton
     c. H. R. F. Keating
     d. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

8. As of early 2006, Sue Grafton's Kinsey Millhone series is down to the letter:
     a. M
     b. P
     c. S
     d. U

9. He writes under several names and pseudonyms, but which one is his real name?
     a. Edward Marston
     b. Conrad Allen
     c. Martin Inigo
     d. Keith Miles

10. Which writer of mysteries set in Italy, uses Florence as his/her setting?
     a. Magdalen Nabb
     b. Donna Leon
     c. Andrea Camilleri
     d. Iain Pears



Answers: 1. Mrs. Hudson; 2. St. Mary Mead; 3. Endeavour; 4. Bootlegging; 5. Murder; 6. The Accademia; 7. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; 8. S; 9. Keith Miles; 10. Magdalen Nabb


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