Agatha Christie and Literature

15 Points Per Correct Answer - No time limit  

1. The title for the novel ‘Postern of Fate’ is inspired by a poem ‘Gates of Damascus’. This poem is also featured in another short story. Can you identify the book which contains this short story? The Tuesday Club Murders The Mysterious Mr. Quin The Labors of Hercules Parker Pyne Investigates

2. The title of the novel ‘Taken at the Flood’ is inspired from a line in a play by William Shakespeare. Do you know the name of the play? Much Ado about Nothing King Lear Romeo and Juliet Julius Caesar

3. One of Agatha Christie’s novels features a character who is described as “exactly like a young man out of one of Mr. P. G. Wodehouse’s books.” Can you identify the name of this novel? The Hollow The Man in the Brown Suit Murder in Mesopotamia Mrs. McGinty’s Dead

4. The title of the novel ‘The Mirror Crack’d’ is from a famous poem by Lord Tennyson. Do you know which poem? Galahad Enoch Arden Sir Lancelot and Queen Guinevere The Lady of Shalott

5. ‘Partners in Crime’ is a Tommy and Tuppence short story collection, where the duo mimics famous fictional detectives. Who among the following fictional detectives is NOT featured in this book? Father Brown Hercule Poirot Sherlock Holmes Auguste Dupin

6. The title of the novel ‘The Pale Horse’ features a verse from a book of the New Testament. Which book is this? Luke John Acts Revelation

7. The title of the Tommy and Tuppence novel ‘By the Pricking of my Thumbs’ is inspired by the lines from William Shakespeare’s ‘Hamlet’. True False

8. “The Moving Finger writes and having writ moves on..” is a line from a poem that has inspired a Christie novel titled ‘The Moving Finger’. Can you name the poet? William Shakespeare Omar Khayyam William Wordsworth Lord Tennyson

9. ‘Sad Cypress’ is yet another novel where the title is inspired from a Shakespeare play. Which is this play? King John As You Like It Twelfth Night The Tempest

10. The title of the Christie novel ‘Endless Night’ is inspired from a poem. Do you know the name of the poet? William Blake John Keats Lord Tennyson W B Yeats