1. Montague Egg is a commercial traveller, or "travelling representative" - what product does he sell? Perfumes and toilet accessories Pipes and Tobacco Wines and spirits Sweets

2. What company is Monty a salesman for? Smith and Smith Cadbury's Plummet and Rose Fragonard and Co.

3. How does Monty Egg deal with any conflict or decision in his life? talks it over with his wife prays recites rhyming couplets drinks

4. In "The Poisoned Dow '08", the victim had been given some poisoned port wine. How is the poison introduced into the wine? injected through the cork by hypodermic it never was in the wine, but on his cigar end through a hollow corkscrew it was in the glass

5. In "Sleuths on the Scent", we know that the murderer is a man who has been trained in pharmacy. How does he give himself away? his knowledge of drug interactions his characteristic method of opening a flask stopper his white coat the frequency with which he washes his hands

6. "Murder at Pentecost" takes place at Oxford University. What Oxford landmark plays a prominent part in the mystery? The Isis Tom Tower Brasenose Hall The Bodleian Library

7. In the story "A Shot at Goal", the solution to the mystery (the murder of a wealthy mill-owner) hinges upon what common mistake? confusing left for right a spelling error a grammatical error two people have the same name

8. Several Montague Egg mysteries hinge upon time and clocks for their solution. In "Dirt Cheap", Monty is staying at an inferior inn when the murder of a fellow commercial traveller occurs. What is the time-related solution to the mystery? a clock has been removed from where it used to be a clock has been put forward two clocks have a similar-sounding chime a clock has been put back

9. In the story "Maher-shalal-hashbaz", Montague Egg does a good turn for a young girl, and finds himself involved in a particularily nasty murder. Who IS Maher-shalal-hashbaz? an Arab a mummy a cat a Persian prince

10. What gives the solution to the mystery in the story "False Weight", a tale of the murder of a commercial traveller who takes advantage of his job to indulge in a bit of bigamy? the sash weights on a window a side of bacon a bathroom scale the weights in a grandfather clock