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'The Hollow' Trivia Quiz

This quiz is about the book, 'The Hollow' by Agatha Christie. It's also published as 'Murder After Hours'.

A multiple-choice quiz by augusta123. Estimated time: 4 mins.

Author
augusta123

Time
4 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
73,114

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Average

Avg Score
7 / 10

Plays
543

Last 3 plays: mberry923 (3/10), Guest 82 (4/10), Bacanta (8/10).

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Question 1 of 10

1. What's the name of Lucy Angkatell's butler?

Answer: (One Word)

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Question 2 of 10

2. What's the name of the old lady patient of John Christow whom he was so fond of?

Answer: (Two Words, put a space after the period)

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Question 3 of 10

3. What's the name of Gerda and John's daughter? Hint

Sophie

Madeline

Stephanie

Zena

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Question 4 of 10

4. How many boxes of matches did Lucy give Veronica Clay when she came over to the Hollow to borrow some? Hint

two

six

nine

a dozen

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Question 5 of 10

5. What school does David go to? Hint

Cambridge

Oxford

Harvard

Yale

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Question 6 of 10

6. True or false: Gerda Christow killed her husband.

True

False

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Question 7 of 10

7. What's the name of the model Henrietta hired to make a sculpture? Hint

Gabrielle Willis

Midge Hardcastle

Veronica Clay

Doris Sanders

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Question 8 of 10

8. What's the last thing John Christow said as he was dying? Hint

'Gerda!'

'I know what you did last summer.'

'Veronica!'

'Henrietta!'

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Question 9 of 10

9. Whose fingerprints were on the revolver that Inspector Grange found in Hercule Poirot's bushes? Hint

Poirot's

Henrietta

Gerda's

a stranger's

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Question 10 of 10

10. How many people knew who killed John before Poirot figured it all out? Hint: both dead and alive. Hint

two

four

one

three

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. What's the name of Lucy Angkatell's butler?

Answer: Gudgeon

He always replaces the pots that Lucy left boiling on the stove, because she's so forgetful.

2. What's the name of the old lady patient of John Christow whom he was so fond of?

Answer: Mrs. Crabtree

John Christow was trying to find a cure for Ridgeway's Disease, which Mrs. Crabtree had.

3. What's the name of Gerda and John's daughter?

Answer: Zena

She predicted John's fortune of a death with an Ace of Spades.

4. How many boxes of matches did Lucy give Veronica Clay when she came over to the Hollow to borrow some?

Answer: six

She left them on the patio table at the scene of the murder.

5. What school does David go to?

Answer: Oxford

When Lucy mentioned David going to Cambridge University, he said, irritably, that he went to Oxford University.

6. True or false: Gerda Christow killed her husband.

Answer: True

7. What's the name of the model Henrietta hired to make a sculpture?

Answer: Doris Sanders

8. What's the last thing John Christow said as he was dying?

Answer: 'Henrietta!'

He was telling Henrietta to protect Gerda from letting the police find out that Gerda killed him.

9. Whose fingerprints were on the revolver that Inspector Grange found in Hercule Poirot's bushes?

Answer: a stranger's

The fingerprints belonged to the blind man from whom Henrietta buys her matches. Henrietta had him hold the gun while she dug around in her purse for money.

10. How many people knew who killed John before Poirot figured it all out? Hint: both dead and alive.

Answer: four

Gerda, John, Henrietta, and Lucy Angkatell all knew before Hercule Poirot figured it out. Gerda, because she was the one who killed John, John because he saw Gerda do it, Henrietta, because she was there and because John asked to protect Gerda, and Lucy, because she was there too, with the basket of eggs.

Source: Author augusta123

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