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Match the Hercule Poirot Case to the Victim Quiz
You might be familiar with the many murderers Hercule Poirot has encountered, but do you remember the unfortunate (and some not-so-unfortunate) victims they have killed? Play this quiz and find out. Enjoy!
A matching quiz
by DeepHistory.
Estimated time: 4 mins.
(a) Drag-and-drop from the right to the left, or (b) click on a right
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Questions
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1. After the Funeral
Maggie Buckley
2. Murder in Mesopotamia
Arlena Marshall
3. The Murder on the Links
Cora Lansquenet
4. The Mysterious Affair at Styles
Mr. Ratchett
5. Murder on the Orient Express
Emily Inglethorp
6. Evil Under the Sun
Mrs. Boynton
7. Dead Man's Folly
Madame Giselle
8. Peril at End House
Paul Renauld
9. Death in the Clouds
Marlene Tucker
10. Appointment with Death
Louise Leidner
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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. After the Funeral
Answer: Cora Lansquenet
Cora Lansquenet was the sister and heiress of the wealthy Richard Abernethie and an amateur painter as well. Cora had a habit of purchasing paintings in local sales. One of her purchases was a precious painting by Vermeer, but Cora was oblivious of the painting's value.
Her paid companion, Miss Gilchrist, who had an obsession with owning and maintaining a tea shop, knew that the painting was a Vermeer and murdered Cora by striking her with a hatchet whilst she slept.
2. Murder in Mesopotamia
Answer: Louise Leidner
Louise Leidner was the wife of Dr. Erich Leidner, who was an archaeologist. This was her second marriage, since she had briefly been the wife of a German World War I spy named Frederick Bosner, who had supposedly died in a train crash. Little did the poor woman know that Erich Leidner was an alias of Frederick Bosner, who had faked his death and reunited with his former wife more than ten years after his supposed death and ended up marrying her again. Frederick viewed Louise as his possession and not as an independent human being. Thus, when she fell in love with Richard Carey, he murdered her.
3. The Murder on the Links
Answer: Paul Renauld
Paul Renauld's real name was Georges Conneau, who, twenty years before the happenings in the story, had conspired with Madame Jeanne Beroldy to kill her wealthy husband, but his accomplice threw the blame for the murder on him and he was forced to flee from his home country.
After remarrying and fathering a son, he settled at the north coast of France. Unfortunately, his former accomplice, Madame Beroldy, who had also been living under an assumed name, caught up with him and started blackmailing him. Renauld decided to fake his death and disappear, but his plans were overheard by Madame Beroldy's daughter. Thus, when Renauld started to execute his plan, Madame Beroldy's daughter stabbed him at the back.
4. The Mysterious Affair at Styles
Answer: Emily Inglethorp
Emily Inglethorp was the matriarch of the Cavendish family and the owner of Styles Court. She had been married to Mr. Cavendish, but later her husband died, leaving her as guardian of his children- whose mother had not been Emily- and owner of the Styles Court. Shortly before the events described in the novel, Emily had married a much younger man, named Alfred Inglethorp. Alfred was, in fact, nothing more than a fortune-hunter, who schemed with his cousin and romantic partner, Evelyn Howard, to kill Emily with the usage of poison. Knowing that Alfred would be suspected for the murder, they planned that he be arrested under false evidence, in order to be acquitted and never questioned again, due to double jeopardy. Unfortunately for them, Hercule Poirot foiled their plans.
5. Murder on the Orient Express
Answer: Mr. Ratchett
Mr. Ratchett's name had been Cassetti and he had been involved in the kidnapping and killing of the baby Daisy Armstrong, daughter of Colonel Armstrong. Cassetti had orchestrated the hideous crime, but he had fled justice and changed his name. Yet, twelve people who had been related to Colonel Armstrong and his family never stopped pursuing him and finally, aboard the Orient Express, they managed to kill Cassetti by taking turns at stabbing him with a knife.
6. Evil Under the Sun
Answer: Arlena Marshall
Arlena Marshall nee Stuart was the wife of Captain Kenneth Marshall. Despite the fact that she had a husband and a step-daughter (who loathed her stepmother) Arlena was openly flirtatious with many young men, most prominently Patrick Redfern. Patrick pretended to be smitten by Arlena, so that she would transfer a huge sum of money from her bank account to his and subsequently conspired with his wife, Christine, to have the woman murdered before her husband became aware of the transfer.
7. Dead Man's Folly
Answer: Marlene Tucker
Marlene Tucker was a Girl Scout who had been selected by crime writer Ariadne Oliver to portray the victim in a staged murder mystery. However, Marlene is found murdered at the time of the game and a baffled Mrs. Oliver turns to Hercule Poirot, who discovers the dark story of the Folliatt family of Nasse House: Amy Foliatt had a son, James, who became a deserter at wartime and assumed the name George Stubbs.
His mother welcomed him back in the house, albeit she did not approve of his actions. Believing that a wife would temper her son's fierceness, she had him married to a girl named Hattie.
However, he had been married to an Italian woman before his return to England and did not want to leave her. So, he killed Hattie and had his lover play her part. Marlene Tucker had been murdered on the day of the game so that the cousin of the real Hattie, Etienne de Sousa, would be suspected for the crime and he would not be able to say that the woman calling herself Hattie was not his cousin.
8. Peril at End House
Answer: Maggie Buckley
Magdala "Maggie" Buckley was the cousin of Nick Buckley, whose first name was also Magdala, but was widely known as Nick. Nick had been romantically involved with Michael Seton, but when the young pilot met Maggie, he became smitten with her and broke up with Nick. Seton never learned that the two cousins had the same first name and his affair with Maggie had not been widely known. Thus, when Seton disappeared whilst flying, Nick schemed to murder her cousin and inherit Seton's fortune, because she needed the money in order to retain possession of the End House.
9. Death in the Clouds
Answer: Madame Giselle
Madame Giselle was a weatlhy woman, who had made a part of her fortune due to blackmails. She had an estranged daughter, named Anne Morisot. Anne had secretly married a dentist named Norman Gale. Being a very greedy man, Mr. Gale coveted Madame Giselle's fortune, which would pass to Anne upon her mother's eath. So, Norman killed Madame Giselle using a blowpipe and a poison dart while she was in an airplane- the same airplane Anne was working as a maid. Subsequently, Norman murders Anne on a train en route to Bologne, but his plans to obtain the fortune are spoiled due to the timely intervention of Hercule Poirot.
10. Appointment with Death
Answer: Mrs. Boynton
Mrs. Boynton is the matriarch of the Boynton family. She is portrayed as a sadist, who wants to control other people and have them obey her demands. Before her marriage to Mr. Boynton, however, she had been a prison warden and one of the inmates at that time was Lady Westholme, although at that point she was no Lady.
When, years later, Mrs. Boynton met Lady Wesholme in an archeological investigation, she simply could not resist to torment her about her past, subtly threatening to tell everybody that the Lady had once been imprisoned, prompting Lady Westholme to assassinate her.
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