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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