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Quiz about The Agatha Christie Plot Thickens

The (Agatha Christie) Plot Thickens Quiz

Match the Agatha Christie title to its plot description. Hopefully you won't lose the plot. No spoilers.

A matching quiz by MotherGoose. Estimated time: 4 mins.

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MotherGoose

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396,293

Updated
Dec 03 21

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Questions		Choices
1. Agatha Christie's first play sees Hercule Poirot and Arthur Hastings attempting to solve the murder of the famous physicist, Sir Claud Amory, and to locate his stolen secret formula.		Sparkling Cyanide
2. Simeon Lee, a wealthy but thoroughly nasty old man, invites his family for Christmas to torment them for his own amusement. Little wonder that he is brutally murdered!		Curtain
3. A wealthy elderly woman, Emily French, befriends a younger man, Leonard Vole, and is subsequently murdered after making him her heir. Leonard is arrested and his wife refuses to corroborate his alibi for the night of the murder.		Hercule Poirot's Christmas
4. This volume of short stories saw Hercule Poirot working very hard to solve 12 specially selected cases which corresponded to a particular legend found in Greek mythology.		Witness for the Prosecution
5. A year after Rosemary Barton died, her husband, George, decides to hold an anniversary dinner, with the same guests at the same table, in the hope that his wife's murderer would give himself or herself away.		Sleeping Murder
6. Three generations of the Leonides family live in the same house. When the wealthy patriarch, Aristides Leonides, is murdered, his granddaughter Sophia is left in control of his estate. Sophia's fiance, Charles Hayward, investigates to clear her name.		Crooked House
7. Jacko Argyle is accused of murdering Rachel Argyle, his adoptive mother. The police were not able to confirm his alibi and he died in prison. Posthumously, his alibi is confirmed by Arthur Calgary, who cannot understand why the family is not happy to learn that Jacko is innocent.		Ordeal by Innocence
8. A number of people in the little village of Lymstock have received anonymous "poison pen" letters. The letters are followed by an apparent suicide, which is actually a murder, and then another murder. The vicar's wife calls in an expert - Miss Marple.		The Moving Finger
9. Gwenda Reed is a young bride who buys a house on impulse and then discovers that she had lived in that house when she was very young. With Miss Marple's help, she gradually comes to the realisation that, as a child, she witnessed her stepmother's murder there.		Black Coffee
10. Is this really the end of the line for Hercule Poirot? Poirot summons Hastings to return to Styles, the scene of their first adventure. Hastings is shocked at how aged and frail Poirot has become but Poirot's little grey cells are as keen as ever.		The Labours of Hercules

Select each answer

1. Agatha Christie's first play sees Hercule Poirot and Arthur Hastings attempting to solve the murder of the famous physicist, Sir Claud Amory, and to locate his stolen secret formula.

2. Simeon Lee, a wealthy but thoroughly nasty old man, invites his family for Christmas to torment them for his own amusement. Little wonder that he is brutally murdered!

3. A wealthy elderly woman, Emily French, befriends a younger man, Leonard Vole, and is subsequently murdered after making him her heir. Leonard is arrested and his wife refuses to corroborate his alibi for the night of the murder.

4. This volume of short stories saw Hercule Poirot working very hard to solve 12 specially selected cases which corresponded to a particular legend found in Greek mythology.

5. A year after Rosemary Barton died, her husband, George, decides to hold an anniversary dinner, with the same guests at the same table, in the hope that his wife's murderer would give himself or herself away.

6. Three generations of the Leonides family live in the same house. When the wealthy patriarch, Aristides Leonides, is murdered, his granddaughter Sophia is left in control of his estate. Sophia's fiance, Charles Hayward, investigates to clear her name.

7. Jacko Argyle is accused of murdering Rachel Argyle, his adoptive mother. The police were not able to confirm his alibi and he died in prison. Posthumously, his alibi is confirmed by Arthur Calgary, who cannot understand why the family is not happy to learn that Jacko is innocent.

8. A number of people in the little village of Lymstock have received anonymous "poison pen" letters. The letters are followed by an apparent suicide, which is actually a murder, and then another murder. The vicar's wife calls in an expert - Miss Marple.

9. Gwenda Reed is a young bride who buys a house on impulse and then discovers that she had lived in that house when she was very young. With Miss Marple's help, she gradually comes to the realisation that, as a child, she witnessed her stepmother's murder there.

10. Is this really the end of the line for Hercule Poirot? Poirot summons Hastings to return to Styles, the scene of their first adventure. Hastings is shocked at how aged and frail Poirot has become but Poirot's little grey cells are as keen as ever.

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. Agatha Christie's first play sees Hercule Poirot and Arthur Hastings attempting to solve the murder of the famous physicist, Sir Claud Amory, and to locate his stolen secret formula.

Answer: Black Coffee

Agatha Christie began writing this play in 1929 and it was first performed on stage in 1930. Her motivation to write a play was dissatisfaction with the 1928 play "Alibi", an adaptation by another author/dramatist of her novel, "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd". Unlike many of Christie's plays, which were often based on one of her novels or short stories, "Black Coffee" was an original play.

2. Simeon Lee, a wealthy but thoroughly nasty old man, invites his family for Christmas to torment them for his own amusement. Little wonder that he is brutally murdered!

Answer: Hercule Poirot's Christmas

This novel is a "locked room" mystery, also published under the titles "Murder for Christmas" and "A Holiday for Murder". This novel was written for James Watts, Agatha Christie's brother-in-law. In the foreword, Agatha Christie wrote "My dear James ... You complained that my murders were getting too refined - anaemic in fact. You yearned for a "good violent murder with lots of blood".

A murder where there was no doubt about its being murder!" The murder of Simeon Lee certainly fitted the bill - he was found brutally murdered, with his throat cut, lying in a huge pool of blood.

Answer: Witness for the Prosecution

This short story was originally published as "Traitor's Hands" and appeared in a magazine, "Flynn's Weekly", in 1925. It later appeared in several short story collections. As a play, it opened in London in 1953. When the movie version was released in 1957, Agatha Christie said it was the only movie based on one of her stories she had actually liked.

4. This volume of short stories saw Hercule Poirot working very hard to solve 12 specially selected cases which corresponded to a particular legend found in Greek mythology.

Answer: The Labours of Hercules

These short stories were originally written separately for publication in the "Strand" magazine in 1939. In 1947, they were published as a collection. In the foreword to the collection, Poirot declares that he will choose 12 cases to conform to the mythological sequence of the Twelve Labours of Hercules. In some cases, the connection is highly tenuous!

Answer: Sparkling Cyanide

This novel was derived from a short story, "Yellow Iris", which appeared in the collection "The Regatta Mystery" (1939). The novel was originally published as "Remembered Death" in 1945. The US publishers changed the title, as they have a habit of doing, to "Sparkling Cyanide". Agatha Christie did not care for the new title.

Answer: Crooked House

Agatha Christie was criticised for her unusual choice for the murderer, and her publishers wanted her to change the ending, but she stood firm and refused. This novel, published in 1949, was one of her favourites. In her autobiography, she said "Of my detective books, I think the two that satisfy me best are "Crooked House" and "Ordeal by Innocence".

Answer: Ordeal by Innocence

Arthur Calgary thought the family would be relieved to know that Jacko was not a murderer. He failed to appreciate that, if Jacko was innocent, then someone else in the house must be guilty. Published in 1958, this novel was one of Agatha Christie's favourites, despite lukewarm reviews.

In her autobiography, she said "Of my detective books, I think the two that satisfy me best are "Crooked House" and "Ordeal by Innocence".

Answer: The Moving Finger

This is an unusual Miss Marple story in that Miss Marple does not make her appearance until very late in the story. Although it was not nominated as one of her favourites, Agatha Christie mentioned in her autobiography that she was "really pleased" with this novel, written around 1941-2. She felt it "stood the test of time" when she re-read it 17 to 18 years after she had written it.

Answer: Sleeping Murder

During the Second World War, Agatha Christie wrote "Curtain" (Poirot's last case) and "Sleeping Murder" (Miss Marple's last case). Although begun in 1940, neither was published until the 1970's. Christie made a gift of the copyright to "Sleeping Murder" to her husband, Max Mallowan and it was published posthumously in 1976.

Answer: Curtain

During the Second World War, Agatha Christie wrote Curtain (Poirot's last case) and "Sleeping Murder" (Miss Marple's last case). Although begun in 1940, neither was published until the 1970s. Christie made a gift of the copyright to "Curtain" to her daughter, Rosalind, and it was published in 1975, just months before she died.

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