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A professional forensic anthropologist, Kathy Reichs created the character of Temperance Brennan, whose adventures are loosely based on the author's own experiences. The books were (even more loosely) adapted to television, in the series "Bones".
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  Kathy Reichs' Novels   top quiz  
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Kathy Reichs is one of my favourite authors because of her excellent detailing of authentic forensic methods. If you like Patricia Cornwell, you'll love Kathy Reichs.
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  Deadly Decisions   great trivia quiz  
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"Deadly Decisions" is the third book in the Temperance Brennan series. It was first published in 2000.
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  Death Du Jour    
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"Death Du Jour" was the second book in the Temperance Brennan series. It was first released in 1999. There are a couple of small references to the series "Bones", but no spoilers.
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  "Monday Mourning" by Kathy Reichs   best quiz  
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This quiz is for the book "Monday Mourning." There are spoilers.
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  Kathy Reichs' "Fatal Voyage"   popular trivia quiz  
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These questions are based on Kathy Reichs' fourth novel 'Fatal Voyage' featuring Tempe Brennan. Warning - does contain plot spoilers!
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  Novels by Kathy Reichs    
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Kathy Reichs is a forensic anthropologist whose main character, Temperance Brennan, is now used in the Fox hit series "Bones". How well do you know her novels?
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trivia question Quick Question
At the start of the book, Tempe was unearthing a person who had held which status?

From Quiz "Death Du Jour"





Kathy Reichs Trivia Questions
1. Who was the little girl killed as collateral damage in a motorcycle gang hit of Spider Marcotte?

From Quiz Deadly Decisions

Answer: Emily

The hit was on a man named Richard "Spider" Marcotte. He belonged to the Vipers, an outlaw motorcycle club. Emily Anne Toussaint was only nine years old. She had two younger sisters, Cynthia (age six) and Hannah (age four). Buffy and Willow are characters from "Buffy the Vampire Slayer". Christine is a character from "Bones".

2. At the start of the book, Tempe was unearthing a person who had held which status?

From Quiz Death Du Jour

Answer: Nun

Sister Elisabeth Nicolet was being submitted for sainthood, so Tempe had been asked by the church to unearth her remains. The nun was not in her first resting place, so the process took longer than expected in the frigid Canadian weather. Where she was buried was inside a church that had been closed in 1914. They did eventually locate the sister, and Tempe was able to examine the bones. Unfortunately, the bones held a secret that led Tempe into further researching the sister's birth back in 1846.

3. What test does Tempe have done on the pizza parlor bones to find out how old they are?

From Quiz "Monday Mourning" by Kathy Reichs

Answer: Radioactive dating/Carbon 14

Tempe believes the bones are recent and Dr. LaManche allows her to have the testing done.

4. Asked to assist in the recovery and identification of plane crash victims, Temperance Brennan stumbles upon a body part that doesn't belong to any of the plane's passengers. What is the title of this book?

From Quiz Novels by Kathy Reichs

Answer: Fatal Voyage

The body part, a foot, belongs to a murder victim, who fell prey to a group of select people using canibalism during their initiation rites. The novel is based on Reichs' work with disaster recovery.

5. What is the name of Kathy Reichs' first book which introduces her main character, Temperance (Tempe) Brennan?

From Quiz Kathy Reichs' Novels

Answer: Deja Dead

The titles represent Kathy Reichs' first four books. In order, they are Deja Dead (1997), Death Du Jour (1999), Deadly Decisions (2000), Fatal Voyage (2001).

6. Tempe volunteered her services to Operation Carcajou so she could help investigate outlaw motorcycle club (OMC) killings in the area. What did she say that "carcajou" translated to in English?

From Quiz Deadly Decisions

Answer: Wolverine

A lot of French is spoken in Canada. Operation Carcajou was a special unit made up of law enforcement professionals from all areas, who came together to try and stop OMCs (outlaw motorcycle clubs). When Tempe arrived at the building that served as the unit's headquarters, she commented on the stuffed wolverine in the lobby. She explained that the English translation of 'carcajou' was 'wolverine'.

7. What were the names of the twin babies found in the aftermath of the house fire in St-Jovite (Canada)?

From Quiz Death Du Jour

Answer: Mathias and Malachy

The house fire had been intense, and initially the babies and their parents went undiscovered. Tempe did a cursory examine on two unknown bodies upstairs, and then went on to examine and exhume the body found in the basement. That body belonged to the person renting the home. She was an older woman, thought to be close to her seventies, named Patrice Simonnet. The babies and their parents, Brian and Heidi, were found in an outbuilding the next day. Detective Ryan found out more information on the mother, Heidi Schneider. She was from Sugar Land, Texas (my home town actually), but she and Brian had been in South Caroline until they moved to Montreal. The bodies upstairs were later determined to have been the killers, who then killed themselves.

8. The vividly described woman was one of many victims of a plane crash. Where did the plane go down?

From Quiz Kathy Reichs' "Fatal Voyage"

Answer: North Carolina

From the description, a truly beautiful part of the world called Swain County, in the heart of the Smokey Mountains.

9. What does the burglar take from Tempe's apartment?

From Quiz "Monday Mourning" by Kathy Reichs

Answer: Anne's digital camera and laptop

Anne, Tempe's best friend from North Carolina, came and visited Tempe. While they were at dinner someone (Anique Pomerleau) broke into Tempe's condo.

10. Temperance travels to Guatemala to assist in exhuming and identifying victims of the civil war, when she is asked to assist in the search of four young woman. Which book is this?

From Quiz Novels by Kathy Reichs

Answer: Grave Secrets

Kathy Reichs traveled to Guatemala as part of a human rights team and uncovered a mass grave filled with burned men, women, and children. She used this experience for the novel "Grave Secrets".

11. In which branch of forensic science is Tempe qualified?

From Quiz Kathy Reichs' Novels

Answer: anthropology

Like her character, Kathy Reichs is a forensic anthropologist. She is one of only 50 forensic anthropologists certified by the American Board of Forensic Anthropology and is on the Board of Directors of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences.

12. Tempe is one of the first people on the scene. What is the name of the emergency response team that she is a part of?

From Quiz Kathy Reichs' "Fatal Voyage"

Answer: DMORT

DMORT is the Disaster Mortuary Operational Response Team DMAT is the Disaster Medical Assistance Team OEP is the Office of Emergency Preparedness and finally NDMS is the National Disaster Medical System.

13. What did the pizza parlor owner find near the bodies that convinced Claudel the bodies were old?

From Quiz "Monday Mourning" by Kathy Reichs

Answer: antique buttons

Claudel did not show Tempe the buttons until later. She had a friend look at the buttons and found that one of the buttons was a forgery.

14. Temperance fills in for a colleague, teaching a field class, and ends up investigating several murders, leading to a doctor selling organs. In which novel is all this happening?

From Quiz Novels by Kathy Reichs

Answer: Break No Bones

Tempe's life is in danger as she investigates. Someone throws a bottle at her head, her husband gets shot, and she gets threatend by an angry land developer. When she thinks all is under control, another attempt at her life is made.

15. Tempe works in which Canadian province?

From Quiz Kathy Reichs' Novels

Answer: Quebec

Tempe works for the Laboratoire des Sciences Judiciaires et de Médecine Légale for the province of Quebec, as does the author, Kathy Reichs.

16. Tempe's ex-husband Pete acquires a new four-legged friend who gives the reader some humourous moments with his antics. What is the dog's name?

From Quiz Kathy Reichs' "Fatal Voyage"

Answer: Boyd

He is a 70 kg Chow with a droopy purple tongue, and animated eyebrows. He also has a nose for the dead!

17. What did Tempe and Dr. LaManche find in Louise Parent's mouth during the autopsy?

From Quiz "Monday Mourning" by Kathy Reichs

Answer: feathers

Louise Parent had been trying to contact Tempe because she saw "Menard" chasing a girl. Parent died before she could actually tell this to Tempe, but her sister was able to tell her.

18. In which book is a 2000 year old skeleton found and Tempe travels to Israel to return the find?

From Quiz Novels by Kathy Reichs

Answer: Cross Bones

The premise of this book reminded me a lot of Dan Brown's "The Da Vinci Code" where religious belief is put in question. The novel weaves in Reichs' travel to Israel.

19. Tempe also works for which American university?

From Quiz Kathy Reichs' Novels

Answer: University of North Carolina in Charlotte

Tempe is a professor of anthropology for the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, as is the author. Kathy Reichs is also a forensic anthropologist for the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner for the State of North Carolina.

20. During the unearthing of two male victims near the biker compound, Tempe and her co-workers also discovered the partial remains of a young girl named Savannah. In which city had more of her remains been discovered many years earlier?

From Quiz Deadly Decisions

Answer: Myrtle Beach, South Carolina

Savannah Claire Osprey had been sixteen when she vanished in May of 1984. Her mother reported her as missing, but two days later recounted that story. It was suspected that her husband, Dwayne Allen Osprey, had coerced her into changing her story. He was an abusive drunk known to resent Savannah, who'd been born with hydrocephalus. Tempe found her skull and the tubing from a ventriculoperitoneal, or VP, shunt that had been placed in her brain shortly after birth. After the teeth identified her skull, Tempe called back to South Carolina, where Savannah had been living. She talked to an old friend, SBI Agent Kate Brophy. Savannah had been one of Kate's first cases, so she kept the bones all these years later, bones found on Myrtle Beach nine months after Savannah's disappearance. Dwayne died in a car accident in 1989, so the investigation had died with him. Tempe flew home to look over the bones Kate thought were Savannah's, and she took samples back to Quebec with her to get a DNA analysis.

21. How did Tempe and Sam find out that there was a dead human on Murtry Island?

From Quiz Death Du Jour

Answer: They spotted a monkey with a human jawbone

Sam was furious when they realized a person was dead on the island. The island was not known to the media, and he wanted to keep it that way. The monkeys were vulnerable to human viruses, like tuberculosis, and he did not want to endanger them. He demanded that Tempe do the excavation, but she flatly refused. It turned out that Sam got his way, as the local forensic anthropologist was in Bosnia. She found another body under the first one as she slowly cleared out the earth deeper and deeper. Booth is not Sam's dog at all, but the name of the FBI Agent Brennan works with on "Bones".

22. Most of the passengers on the flight were college students, their coaching staff, and supporters from the University of Georgia. They were coming home from a sporting event. What sport did they play?

From Quiz Kathy Reichs' "Fatal Voyage"

Answer: soccer

The loss of any life is tragic, but it really pulls at the heartstrings when they are so young and just beginning life's journey!

23. What item did Tempe steal from the supposed Menard's house?

From Quiz "Monday Mourning" by Kathy Reichs

Answer: letter opener

They found two sets of prints on the letter opener. One set belong to Anique, but the other was not Menard's.

24. The skeletons of three young women are found in the cellar of a pizza parlor. In which novel does this happen?

From Quiz Novels by Kathy Reichs

Answer: Monday Mourning

The real life case of skeletons found beneath a pizza parlor became a case for archeologists after carbon 14 dating placed the time of death prior to 1955.

25. According to the first book, Tempe has an addiction which she appears to have successfully beaten. What was her addiction?

From Quiz Kathy Reichs' Novels

Answer: alcohol

According to a newspaper interview, Kathy Reichs said "I wanted to give Temperance some texture, some weaknesses. Maybe in the future she'll fall off the wagon. You have to be careful, though - I introduced her in "Deja Dead" as not having drunk in seven years as at April 1997. If you date each book your character ages really quick!" However, in the opening lines of the book, the date is set at Thursday, June 2, 1994, and at the end of Chapter Two, Tempe states "It'd been six years since I'd had a drink".

26. Tempe's friend Isabelle introduced her to a man named Lyle Crease. What was his occupation?

From Quiz Deadly Decisions

Answer: Reporter

It seemed as though Isabelle may be trying to fix Tempe up with Lyle, whom Tempe had first seen outside of one of the crime scenes she'd been at. This was at a dinner party at Isabelle's house. Tempe's nephew Kit was in town and accompanied her to the party, where Tempe found out about his vast knowledge of motorcycles. When they left the party, Kit discovered an envelope on her car that contained an eyeball inside with a note in French that read "we are watching you". When Lyle called her later to ask her out on a date, she said no, but did say it was alright if he contacted Kit to get together. Lyle claimed to be interested in Kit's knowledge of motorcycles. We later found out that Lyle had orchestrated his meeting of Tempe.

27. Tempe's ex-husband Pete kept her cat for her while she'd been in Montreal. What was the cat's name?

From Quiz Death Du Jour

Answer: Birdie

When she returned from her quick trip to Canada, she called out for the cat, but Pete had not brought him home. When she did pick him up from Pete's house (once her house as well), Pete offered her a meal and then some. She turned down the "then some" part of his offer, and ended up having an intense moment with Ryan on Sam's boat. There was a moment later on when a burning cat was thrown through her window (at home in Charlotte), and Tempe believed it was Birdie. Thankfully, Birdie returned home a day later, safe and sound.

28. What does Tempe find that does not match with any of the passengers on the ill-fated flight.

From Quiz Kathy Reichs' "Fatal Voyage"

Answer: A foot

She came across a wolf with it in its mouth, and the rest of the pack hoping to make her the main course!

29. Where did Anne go after she left Tempe's condo?

From Quiz "Monday Mourning" by Kathy Reichs

Answer: Convent

Anne left Tempe a note, but did not tell her where she went.

30. A serial murderer dismembers his victims and buries the different body parts in separate graves in which book?

From Quiz Novels by Kathy Reichs

Answer: Deja Dead

The book is based on Kathy Reichs' first serial murder investigation. It won the Arthur Ellis Award for first novels.

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