The Ones Agatha Killed Off 2 Trivia Quiz

Answer: 4.50 from Paddington

Alfred Crackenthorpe was taken ill after dinner, along with the other members of the family, but only Alfred died. Both the mushroom soup and the curried chicken and rice were suspected as a source of food poisoning but testing revealed it was arsenic in the curry. Unfortunately, the murderer administered a second and fatal dose of arsenic to Alfred.

Answer: Lord Edgware Dies

Carlotta Adams was an American actress/impersonator who accepted a job from another actress, Jane Wilkinson, to impersonate Jane at a dinner party. After the party, Carlotta was found dead from an apparent overdose of veronal (a sleeping pill). At first, it was not clear whether the overdose was an accident or suicide. Poirot deduced that it was murder to prevent Carlotta revealing the identity of Lord Edgware's killer.

Answer: Cat Among the Pigeons

Grace Springer was shot in the sports pavilion of the Meadowbank School. She was an unsympathetic victim. Universally disliked among staff and students, Grace was rude and nosey. She asked far too many personal questions and had a high opinion of herself.

She boasted that she was "good at finding things out" and that "several times (she'd) discovered a nasty scandal and told everyone about it". Little wonder that she ended up murdered.

Answer: Hickory Dickory Dock

Mrs Nicoletis was the owner of the student hostel on Hickory Road. She died when someone laced her brandy with morphine. Mrs Nicoletis was a drunk with a volatile temper and therefore she was perceived as unstable and unreliable. She was killed to ensure she would not accidentally "spill the beans" on an illegal operation taking place in the hostel.

Answer: Towards Zero

Lady Camilla Tressilian, a wealthy elderly widow, was found bludgeoned to death in her bed. Her murder was convenient for the killer, who needed her dead in order to set someone else up for the murder. The killer wanted to see a particular person hanged for the crime as an act of revenge.

Answer: After the Funeral

"But he was murdered, wasn't he?" Cora Lansquenet shocked her family by posing that question after they attended her brother Richard's funeral. Their initial reaction was to dismiss the remark as typical of Cora. She was known for saying outrageous things and not having a social filter.

But it wasn't a coincidence that Cora was murdered the next day. She was violently attacked with a hatchet while she slept.

Answer: Murder in Mesopotamia

Louise Leidner was the wife of the leader of the archaeological dig. After receiving a number of anonymous letters threatening her with death, she was murdered by a blow to the head. Poirot felt that the key to solving the murder lay in the personality of Louise Leidner.

However, his investigation was complicated by the fact that everybody's opinions about Louise varied considerably. In fact, he found motives galore.

Answer: Sad Cypress

Mary Gerrard was poisoned by morphine in fish paste sandwiches served to her by Elinor Carlisle. Elinor was accused of the murder, and there was certainly circumstantial evidence against her, but she was innocent. Hercule Poirot managed to get to the bottom of things after realising why the killer needed both Mary and Elinor out of the way.

Answer: Appointment with Death

Of all Agatha Christie's victims, Mrs Boynton was the one no-one mourned. She was a nasty, cruel woman who delighted in terrorising her poor family. Despite being utterly miserable, none of them had the courage to break away. Mrs Boynton was murdered by an injection of digitoxin while she and her family were on a tour in Petra. Her death was their door to freedom.

Answer: Hallowe'en Party

Boasting was the undoing of Joyce Reynolds. She claimed to have witnessed a murder but explained that, at that time, she was too young to realise the significance of what she had seen. She was lying, of course, but she unsettled a murderer who thought they had got away with their crime. So Joyce had to be silenced. The killer drowned her in a bucket of water at a Hallowe'en party.