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Quiz: Agatha Christie

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Test your knowledge of the mystery writer Agatha Christie, whom Joan Acocella wrote about in the August 16, 2010, issue of The New Yorker.
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Agatha Christie, whom Joan Acocella writes about in The New Yorker this week, is
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Which of the following is not the name of a Christie character?
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Which actor has not played Christie’s foppish lead detective Hercule Poirot, who, as Acocella describes, “wears pointy patent-leather shoes ill-suited to walking the grounds of the country houses where he must often do his sleuthing” and “deplores the English preference for fresh air, thin women, and tea”?
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In “Elephants Can Remember,” Poirot notes that his initials are the same as HP Brown sauce, which he calls “such a fine delicacy, a good English creation." Where did HP Brown sauce get its initials?
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Agatha Christie’s “Murder on the Orient Express” was based in part on what real-life murder?
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In 1993, the scientist Douglas Erwin used the phrase “Murder on the Orient Express” to describe his model of what?
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Christie’s book “Curtain” topped the New York Times best-seller list for fiction on January 11, 1976, the day before she died. What was in second place?
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Who invented the detective story?
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When Christie disappeared for eleven days in 1926 following her first husband’s request for a divorce, she was finally discovered by whom?
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Christie wrote “The Mousetrap,” which is the longest continually running play in history, as a birthday present for Queen Mary. What was President Obama’s birthday present for Queen Elizabeth II, who turned eighty last year?
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In “The Secret Adversary,” Christie’s 1922 book that introduces the detective duo Tommy and Tuppence, what does Tuppence say she thinks about “morning, noon and night!”?
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Who attacked Agatha Christie and the entire mystery genre in three essays in The New Yorker in the nineteen-forties?
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