Do you recognise these first lines from ten famous books?
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Dec 01 14
Category:
Famous First Lines
Match the following medical words or word parts to their meaning.
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May 24 19
Category:
Medical Lingo / Abbreviations
Match the major characters in this novel with their description. (NO SPOILERS)
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Nov 04 21
Category:
Death on the Nile
Match the major characters in this novel with their description. (NO SPOILERS)
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Nov 04 21
Category:
Miss Marple
Match the major characters in this novel with their description. (NO SPOILERS)
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Nov 04 21
Category:
The ABC Murders
Match the following medical words, word parts or abbreviations to their meaning.
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Aug 31 20
Category:
Medical Lingo / Abbreviations
American publishers often change the titles of works by English authors. Match Agatha Christie's original title with its American counterpart.
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Apr 06 19
Category:
Something in the Title
Pick the odd one out of these groups of animals.
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Dec 17 21
Recommended for grades: 5,6,7
Category:
Mixed Animals for Kids
The information for this quiz is sourced from "Agatha Christie: An Autobiography", which Christie began to write in 1950 and finished 15 years later, when she was 75 years old.
Average, 10 Qns, MotherGoose,
Oct 27 22
Category:
Writers and Places
Some easy questions about classic rock albums (what's an album?). (Adopted quiz from dwmw, revised by MotherGoose)
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Oct 20 22
Category:
Album Covers
Many well-known authors have sourced their titles from the works of Shakespeare. Can you match the author with the title they borrowed from the Bard?
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Apr 14 19
Category:
Literary Titles
MAJOR SPOILER ALERT! Beware - this quiz is all about the ones "whodunnit" in Agatha Christie's works. Match the murderer with the novel in which they appear.
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Sep 21 21
Category:
Assorted Christie Characters
Match the major characters in this Agatha Christie novel with their descriptions. (NO SPOILERS)
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Mar 26 24
Category:
One, Two, Buckle My Shoe
In literature, a subtitle is a secondary title which is usually explanatory in nature. Can you recognise these famous plays and novels by their subtitles?
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Apr 28 13
Category:
Literary Titles
Match the game with its coveted trophy.
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Dec 14 21
Category:
Sports Trophies
Match the major characters in this novel with their description. (NO SPOILERS)
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Nov 04 21
Category:
Miss Marple
Match each quintet of main characters with the correct Agatha Christie novel that they appear in.
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Aug 02 20
Category:
Assorted Christie Characters
Match the major characters in this novel with their description. (NO SPOILERS)
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Nov 04 21
Category:
Murder in Mesopotamia
Match the major characters in this novel with their description. (NO SPOILERS)
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Nov 04 21
Category:
Evil Under the Sun
Can you select the correct title to go with each of the first lines? Each question gives the opening lines to a novel as well as other clues to help you.
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Oct 29 04
Category:
Christie, Agatha
Match the major characters in this novel with their description. (NO SPOILERS)
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Nov 04 21
Category:
After the Funeral
Each of these medical terms contains a word part that indicates a specific colour. Match the colour to the relevant medical term.
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Sep 10 19
Category:
Medical Lingo / Abbreviations
Match the major characters in this novel with their description. (NO SPOILERS)
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Nov 04 21
Category:
Hickory Dickory Dock
Match the major characters in this novel with their description. (NO SPOILERS)
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Nov 04 21
Category:
Lord Edgeware Dies
Match the major characters in this novel with their description. (NO SPOILERS)
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Nov 04 21
Category:
Cat Among the Pigeons
How much do you know about poisons?
Average, 10 Qns, MotherGoose,
Apr 03 18
Category:
Poisons
Match the major characters in this novel with their description. (NO SPOILERS)
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Nov 04 21
Category:
Sad Cypress
'Heartbeat' is one of my favourite television programmes. If you are a fan, this quiz should be easy.
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Nov 04 21
Category:
Heartbeat
This quiz is about disorders and conditions associated with the sex chromosomes - the X and Y chromosomes that determine one's gender.
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Jun 07 17
Category:
Reproduction and Genetics
Match the major characters in this novel with their description. (NO SPOILERS)
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Nov 04 21
Category:
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
Here is a quiz on movie taglines. A tagline is a catch-phrase used to advertise the movie.
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Jan 03 22
Category:
Movie Taglines
Match the major characters in this novel with their description. (NO SPOILERS)
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Nov 04 21
Category:
Individual Other Christie Works
Behind every dictator, there is usually a wife wielding considerable power. This quiz looks at some famous, or infamous, First Ladies.
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Aug 23 13
Category:
Dictators & Tyrants
The questions in this quiz having nothing in common except the word "double".
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Jul 08 17
Category:
Single Word Theme
Surely no-one can identify the top ten best-selling books of all time but this quiz is based on the list in Russel Ash's book, "The Top 10 of Everything 2002". This list is generally agreed upon by many sources including Booksellers World.
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Aug 01 20
Category:
Tougher Mixed Literature
Regular FunTrivia forum readers will know why this quiz is dedicated to Coolupway, the self-proclaimed "Prince of Pus".
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May 12 17
Category:
Integumentary System
Bible quotations are from the King James Version.
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Mar 07 22
Category:
Old and New Testament Trivia
Match the celebrity with the product they endorse(d).
Average, 10 Qns, MotherGoose,
Jan 05 20
Category:
Celebrity Grab Bag
This is a companion quiz to "Murder by Poison". Although poison was her favourite method, Agatha Christie did not lack imagination when it came to weapons and other methods of murder. (NO SPOILERS).
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Jan 03 17
Category:
Thematic Christie
This quiz is about movies featuring Hercule Poirot and the actors who portrayed him.
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Jan 15 24
Category:
Something in Common
Match the major characters in this Agatha Christie novel with their descriptions. (NO SPOILERS)
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Mar 16 22
Category:
Halloween Party
All best-sellers need a catchy title. Can you recognise these famous novels by their original or working titles?
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Mar 04 10
Category:
Literary Titles
Match the major characters in this Agatha Christie novel with their description. (NO SPOILERS)
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Nov 04 21
Category:
Superintendent Battle
This quiz is about Agatha Christie's work 'Witness for the Prosecution' - the short story, the play, the film and the made-for-TV movie. I promise not to give away the ending or any of the plot twists.
Tough, 10 Qns, MotherGoose,
Nov 04 21
Category:
They Became Movies
Match the major characters in this novel with their description. (NO SPOILERS)
Average, 10 Qns, MotherGoose,
Nov 04 21
Category:
Individual Other Christie Works
I was astounded when I discovered that the Australian Literature section only had two quizzes so here is a quiz to help overcome this deficiency.
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Jun 28 17
Category:
Australian Literature
An acronym is a special type of abbreviation, one that is pronounced as a word and not as individual letters; for example, BETA is an acronym, VHS is not.
Tough, 10 Qns, MotherGoose,
Apr 25 12
Category:
Acronyms and Initialisms
How much do you know about every Tom, Dick and Harry in this Literature quiz? There are five Toms, five Dicks and five Harrys in this quiz.
Average, 15 Qns, MotherGoose,
May 07 22
Category:
Literature: Something in Common
Match the major characters in this novel with their description. (NO SPOILERS)
Average, 10 Qns, MotherGoose,
Nov 04 21
Category:
Appointment with Death
More questions about being last (but not least).
Tough, 10 Qns, MotherGoose,
Sep 24 22
Category:
First, Second, Third and Last