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Fictional murderers sometimes chose the most bizarre weapons! Does your imagination stretch this far?

A multiple-choice quiz by balaton. Estimated time: 4 mins.
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Author
balaton
Time
4 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
361,617
Updated
Dec 03 21
# Qns
10
Difficulty
Average
Avg Score
6 / 10
Plays
360
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Question 1 of 10
1. In the Agatha Christie novel "Mrs McGinty's Dead" an elderly charwoman is apparently murdered by her rather seedy lodger. What strange object has been used to commit the crime?
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Question 2 of 10
2. In "Lamb to the Slaughter" by Roald Dahl, in what novel way does the murderess dispose of the murder weapon? Hint


Question 3 of 10
3. Who is the lady detective who discovers her neighbour's lady friend buried upside down in a garden pot, in the book "___
___ and the Potted Gardener"?
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Question 4 of 10
4. In what C.J. Box novel is an eco terrorist killed by an exploding cow? Hint


Question 5 of 10
5. Jim Dandy and Dodee Swisher are suspects in the murder of an obnoxious hotel employee in Bold Harbour, in a book by Peter Abresch. What is the murder weapon? Hint


Question 6 of 10
6. In Dorothy Sayers' "Busman's Honeymoon", Lord Peter Wimsey and his bride solve a murder in which a most improbable weapon is used. Can you identify it? Hint


Question 7 of 10
7. In what book, set in a mediaeval Benedictine monastery in Northern Italy, are a series of deaths investigated by a Franciscan monk and his novice, during which time he discovers that Jorge, a senior blind member of the Abbey, has put poison on the pages of a forbidden book so that readers die when they lick their fingers to turn pages? Hint


Question 8 of 10
8. In what Agatha Christie Book is a young girl drowned in a bowl of water while apple bobbing? Hint


Question 9 of 10
9. A young girl dies before her wedding day.
Her sister fears her fate may be the same.
The story is, of course, "The Speckled Band".
Sherlock Holmes the investigator's name.

But what is the death instrument?
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Question 10 of 10
10. In what Agatha Christie novel was a man killed by an injection from a phoney dentist? Hint



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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. In the Agatha Christie novel "Mrs McGinty's Dead" an elderly charwoman is apparently murdered by her rather seedy lodger. What strange object has been used to commit the crime?

Answer: A sugar hammer

The sugar hammer, bought at a village jumble sale, hung openly on the wall of the house where Poirot was staying with Mrs Maureen Summerhayes, a somewhat scatty landlady.

The title of the book is taken from a children's game.
2. In "Lamb to the Slaughter" by Roald Dahl, in what novel way does the murderess dispose of the murder weapon?

Answer: She persuades the police to eat it unwittingly

The lady kills her husband by hitting him with a frozen leg of lamb, which she then puts in the oven to roast. After the police have searched fruitlessly for it, she serves it to them with potatoes, vegetables and mint sauce, for supper!
3. Who is the lady detective who discovers her neighbour's lady friend buried upside down in a garden pot, in the book "___ ___ and the Potted Gardener"?

Answer: Agatha Raisin

Agatha Raisin is the brainchild of E.M. Beaton, being a rather Miss Marple-like character. Beaton also created the Scottish sergeant Hamish Macbeth.
4. In what C.J. Box novel is an eco terrorist killed by an exploding cow?

Answer: Savage Run

"Savage Run" is Box's second novel featuring Joe Pickett, a Wyoming game warden torn between sympathy for the small landowner and his disapproval of law breakers. Its theme is environmentalists versus landowners.
5. Jim Dandy and Dodee Swisher are suspects in the murder of an obnoxious hotel employee in Bold Harbour, in a book by Peter Abresch. What is the murder weapon?

Answer: A bonsai tree

In the book "Bloody Bonsai", the victim is found impaled through the chest with a bonsai tree.

Bonsai is an art form long practised by the Japanese. Miniature trees are grown in containers and are trained in shape and restricted in size. They are grown only for pleasure and aesthetic satisfaction - not as murder weapons!
6. In Dorothy Sayers' "Busman's Honeymoon", Lord Peter Wimsey and his bride solve a murder in which a most improbable weapon is used. Can you identify it?

Answer: A potted cactus

Lord Peter has at length won his bride Harriet Vane whom he had successfully cleared of a murder charge, only to find his honeymoon farmhouse cluttered with a murdered man. Just how the cactus was used as a weapon I leave you to discover since knowing now would certainly spoil the story.
7. In what book, set in a mediaeval Benedictine monastery in Northern Italy, are a series of deaths investigated by a Franciscan monk and his novice, during which time he discovers that Jorge, a senior blind member of the Abbey, has put poison on the pages of a forbidden book so that readers die when they lick their fingers to turn pages?

Answer: Umberto Eco's "The Name of the Rose"

Prominent in the book is the historical person Bernardo Gui, a mediaeval Inquisitor charged with the task of rooting out heresy in the Church.
At least forty two heretics were executed during his regime.
8. In what Agatha Christie Book is a young girl drowned in a bowl of water while apple bobbing?

Answer: Hallowe'en Party

The victim is an inveterate attention seeker who falsely claims to have seen a murder. Unfortunately a murderer believes her ...
9. A young girl dies before her wedding day. Her sister fears her fate may be the same. The story is, of course, "The Speckled Band". Sherlock Holmes the investigator's name. But what is the death instrument?

Answer: A deadly swamp adder

One of the fifty six short stories of Conan Doyle, it presents the reader with the problem of a murder in a locked room.
Snake experts have pointed out that there is no such snake as a swamp adder though there is an Indian cobra which has black and white speckled markings.
Moreover as snakes are deaf it could not have responded to a whistle nor are snakes capable of climbing a rope or cord. Pity!
10. In what Agatha Christie novel was a man killed by an injection from a phoney dentist?

Answer: OneTwo Buckle My Shoe

Like many of the Christie novels its title is from a children's nursery rhyme.
Source: Author balaton

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