Are You An Agatha Christie Fan?
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Agatha Christie, whom Joan Acocella writes about in The New Yorker this week, is- A.
A duchess
- B.
A lady
- C.
A dame
- D.
A wench
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Which of the following is the pseudonym that Christie has used?- A.
Jane Marple
- B.
Mary Westmacott
- C.
Martine Crackenthorpe
- D.
Lord Windlesham
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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”?- A.
Alfred Molina
- B.
Albert Finney
- C.
Jason Alexander
- D.
Patrick Stewart
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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?- A.
Herman Plottsville, in honor of the inventor of the sauce
- B.
Holland Pride, after its founder’s country of origin
- C.
Hot and Pucker, to describe the sauce’s spicy yet sour taste
- D.
The Houses of Parliament, which the founder claimed was serving it
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Agatha Christie’s “Murder on the Orient Express” was based in part on what real-life murder?- A.
Elizabeth Short, known as “The Black Dahlia”
- B.
Lizzie Borden’s father
- C.
Charles Lindbergh’s son
- D.
Jack the Ripper’s fourth victim
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In 1993, the scientist Douglas Erwin used the phrase “Murder on the Orient Express” to describe his model of what?- A.
Climate change
- B.
A predicted asteroid collision in 2182
- C.
The Permian–Triassic extinction event
- D.
That year’s oil spill in the Persian Gulf
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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?- A.
“Ragtime,” by E. L. Doctorow
- B.
“Slapstick,” by Kurt Vonnegut
- C.
“1876,” by Gore Vidal
- D.
“Sleeping Murder,” by Agatha Christie
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Who invented the detective story?- A.
Charles Dickens
- B.
Edgar Allen Poe
- C.
Raymond Chandler
- D.
Louisa Mae Alcott
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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?- A.
Her bridge partner at the hotel where she was staying
- B.
Nancy Neele, her husband’s mistress
- C.
A police officer, who served as the model for a character in “4:50 from Paddington”
- D.
The drummer and saxophonist whose shows she was frequenting
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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?- A.
A sonnet that he wrote
- B.
A signed copy of “Dreams of My Father”
- C.
Tickets to “The Lion King” on Broadway
- D.
An iPod
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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!”?- A.
Justice
- B.
Love
- C.
Money
- D.
Truth
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Who attacked Agatha Christie and the entire mystery genre in three essays in The New Yorker in the nineteen- forties?- A.
Edmund Wilson
- B.
E. B. White
- C.
Roald Dahl
- D.
George Orwell
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