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Robert B. Parker's Spenser

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Robert B Parkers Spenser game quiz
"Named for an Elizabethan poet, but still the toughest, wittiest detective in Boston."

15 Points Per Correct Answer - No time limit  



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


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
    Early Autumn
    Small Vices
    Taming a Sea-Horse


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


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 witness to a Mafia don's murder
    a Hollywood starlet
    a radical lesbian author
    the President's daughter


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


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


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


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

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