Robert B. Parker's Spenser

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1. In his younger days, Spenser was a professional heavyweight boxer. Which former heavyweight champ did he once lose a match to? Rocky Marciano Sonny Liston Floyd Patterson Jersey Joe Walcott

2. Spenser is a veteran of the Viet Nam war? True False

3. In which novel does Spenser become a father figure to a teenage boy with ambitions of becoming a ballet dancer? Hugger Mugger Taming a Sea-Horse Small Vices Early Autumn

4. What does Spenser's girlfriend, Susan Silverman, do for a living? Advertising executive Newspaper reporter Psychiatrist Professor of English literature

5. At what sporting event must Spenser and Hawk foil a terrorist atack in "The Judas Goat"? the Boston Marathon the Olympics the World Series the Super Bowl

6. Who is Spenser hired to protect in "Looking for Rachel Wallace"? a Hollywood starlet a witness to a Mafia don's murder the President's daughter a radical lesbian author

7. The Spenser adventure "A Catskill Eagle" takes its title from a passage in which classic American novel? The Great Gatsby Moby Dick The Last of the Mohicans The Red Badge of Courage

8. Who are the villains of the Spenser novel "Pale Kings and Princes"? International arms merchants The Ku Klux Klan Purveyors of child pornography Colombian drug dealers

9. Which of these was the first Spenser novel? Mortal Stakes The Godwulf Manuscript Ceremony The Widening Gyre

10. What Boston police detective must Spenser regularly butt heads with? Lieutenant Biddle Lionel T. Cramer Martin Quirk Dennis Becker