Are You An Agatha Christie Fan?
Agatha Christie is certainly one of the finest novelists of all time. With over 60 novels to her name she certainly is a mistress of crime. Her character Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple are her most renowned characters. Are you her fan of Agatha Christie? Then congratulations, this quiz is for you.
- 1.
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
- 2.
Which of the following is the pseudonym that Christie has used?
- A.
Jane Marple
- B.
Mary Westmacott
- C.
Martine Crackenthorpe
- D.
Lord Windlesham
- 3.
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
- 4.
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
- 5.
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
- 6.
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
- 7.
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
- 8.
Who invented the detective story?
- A.
Charles Dickens
- B.
Edgar Allen Poe
- C.
Raymond Chandler
- D.
Louisa Mae Alcott
- 9.
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
- 10.
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
- 11.
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
- 12.
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
(16).jpg "Agatha Christie, whom Joan Acocella writes about in The New Yorker this week, is")
(16).jpg "Which of the following is the pseudonym that Christie has used?")
(13).jpg "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”?")
(11).jpg "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?")
(9).jpg "Agatha Christie’s “Murder on the Orient Express” was based in part on what real-life murder?")
(14).jpg "In 1993, the scientist Douglas Erwin used the phrase “Murder on the Orient Express” to describe his model of what?")
(10).jpg "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?")
(13).jpg "Who invented the detective story?")
(13).jpg "When Christie disappeared for eleven days in 1926 following her first husband’s request for a divorce, she was finally discovered by whom?")
(14).jpg "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?")
(14).jpg "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!”?")
(13).jpg "Who attacked Agatha Christie and the entire mystery genre in three essays in The New Yorker in the nineteen-
forties?")
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