Monday, November 18, 2019

Q (2): EVERYTHING CRIME FROM A – Z


Quiz

Quiz #2

(No googling—try to see how many you can answer before you peek J)



  1)  Who is called ‘The Skeleton Detective’?
a.    Jesse Stone
b.    Gideon Oliver
c.    Travis McGee
d.    Tom Barnaby

  2)   Which mystery writer created Miss Jane Marple?
a.   Robert Ludlum
b.   Agatha Christie
c.   Mary Higgins Clark
d.   Dorothy L. Sayers

  3)  Who is the love interest of Lord Peter Wimsey?
a.   Kay Scarpetta
b.   Julia Ogden
c.   Joyce Barnaby
d.   Harriet Vane

  4)  What was author Dick Francis’ profession?
a.  Jockey
b.  Horse trainer
c.  Bookie
d.  Race track manager

  5)   Under what pseudonym did Agatha Christie write romances?
a.    Patricia Highsmith
b.    Mary Westmacott
c.    Val McDermid
d.    Ruth Rendell

  6)  Who wrote the Perry Mason novels?
a.   Erle Stanley Gardner
b.   Jeffery Deaver
c.   Mickey Spillane
d.   Dennis Lehane

  7)   Who was the archnemisis of Sherlock Holmes?
a.   Professor Zoom
b.   Lex Luther
c.   Professor Moriarty
d.   Dr. Watson

  8)  What does J.B. stand for from Murder She Wrote?
a.   Jessica Bernadette
b.   Jennifer Bianca
c.   Jennifer Bridget
d.   Jessica Beatrice

  9)   Who was Agatha Christie’s 2nd husband?
a.   Max Mallowan
b.   Bill Pronzini
c.   Dominick Dunne
d.   Michael Connelly

 10)  What was the name of the detective in G.K. Chesterton’s mysteries?
a.   Brother Cadfael
b.   Rabbi David Small
c.   Father Brown
d.   Father Townsend

 11)  Frederic Dannay and Manfred Bennington Lee wrote under what pen name?
a.   Ian Fleming
b.   Elmore Leonard
c.   Alfred Hitchcock
d.   Ellery Queen

 12)  Who continued the Nero Wolfe novels?
a.   Jeffery Deaver
b.   Robert Goldsborough
c.   J.A. Konrath
d.   G.K. Chesterton

 13)  Who wrote the U.S. Marshall Raylan Givens series?
a.   Harlan Coben
b.   Tom Clancy
c.    Elmore Leonard
d.    Raymond Chandler

 14)  Who wrote the Detective William Murdoch mysteries?
a.   Maureen Jennings
b.   P.D. James
c.   Sara Paretsky
d.   Kerry Greenwood

15)  Who wrote the Eddie Shoes mysteries?
a.   Louise Penny
b.   Tana French
c.   Sue Grafton
d.   Elena Hartwell



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Answers:

1/b, 2/b, 3/d, 4/a, 5/b, 6/a, 7/c, 8/d, 9/a, 10/c, 11/d, 12/b, 13/c, 14/a, 15/d



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