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Quiz about Hercule Poirots Little Grey Cells
Quiz about Hercule Poirots Little Grey Cells

Hercule Poirot's Little Grey Cells Quiz


This quiz is about ten episodes from the series "Agatha Christie's Poirot", starring David Suchet as the great Belgian detective, whose "little grey cells" help him solve every crime that comes by his way. Enjoy!

A photo quiz by DeepHistory. Estimated time: 6 mins.
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Author
DeepHistory
Time
6 mins
Type
Photo Quiz
Quiz #
371,228
Updated
Dec 03 21
# Qns
10
Difficulty
Tough
Avg Score
6 / 10
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923
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Question 1 of 10
1. We will begin with a feature-length episode. In that, Hercule Poirot and Captain Hastings travel in France, where they meet strange businessman Paul Renauld, who wants Poirot to protect him from mysterious enemies. However, next morning, Renauld is found dead. What's the name of the episode? Hint


Question 2 of 10
2. In "The Theft of the Royal Ruby", Poirot is asked by a Mr Jesmond to retrieve a ruby. The jewel belongs to a prince who had it stolen by a young woman he had unwisely courted. What's the name of the prince and where does he come from? Hint


Question 3 of 10
3. The figures of Commedia dell' arte make an appearance in the episode "The Affair of the Victory Ball", where Viscount Cronshaw is found dead in a masqueraded Victory Ball. Which victory is celebrated? Hint


Question 4 of 10
4. In this episode, Poirot goes for vacation in an island in the Mediterranean, hoping to relax from solving crimes. It is there that Poirot's attention is caught by Valentine Chantry, a beautiful woman rumored to be romantically involved with Douglas Gold, on expense of Douglas' wife and Valentine's husband. Just when Poirot is sharing what he thinks a last drink with the guests, he learns that Valentine has been poisoned. In which island do those events take place? Hint


Question 5 of 10
5. In "The Lost Mine", while Poirot is facing problems with his bank account, his banker, Lord Pearson, introduces him to a murder mystery. A Chinese, Mr. Wu Ling, had in his possession a map of a lost mine and was willing to sell it to Lord Pearson's bank, but disappeared and was found dead shortly after he entered England. What metal was mined in the lost mine Mr. Wu Ling's map showed? Hint


Question 6 of 10
6. In "Double Sin", Poirot and Hastings decide to go on vacation in the north of England. On the bus to their destination, they meet Mary Durrant, a young lady working for her aunt, Elizabeth Penn, who was an antique shop. Her job is to deliver portrait miniatures of important military personnel, who had whom as their commander? Hint


Question 7 of 10
7. "The Adventure of the Egyptian Tomb" begins with the death of the Egyptologist Sir John Willard, after the discovery of the tomb of a Pharaoh. SoonWillard's sponsor, Mr. Bleibner and Bleibner' s son, Rupert, are found dead, the senior Bleibner as a result of blood poisoning and the junior because of suicide. The press now speaks about the curse of the Pharaoh whose tomb Sir John Willard had discovered. Who as this Pharaoh? Hint


Question 8 of 10
8. When Poirot is summoned by Mr. Holliday, a very wealthy businessman from Australia, it is not to investigate a financial scandal, but rather the murder of his daughter, Florence, aka Mrs. Carrington. She was murdered when aboard a train, on her way to visit some relatives. What's the name of the episode? Hint


Question 9 of 10
9. In this case, Poirot doesn't find himself facing a seemingly unsolved murder mystery, or an incredible theft. Instead, he tries to prevent a murder from occurring. What's the name of the episode? Hint


Question 10 of 10
10. This case begins with Poirot getting a visit from Mary Marvell, a Belgian actress whom the detective admires. Marvell tells him that she has received letters by a Chinese man warning her to return her precious diamond jewel to where it came from, the left eye of an idol. What's the name of the episode? Hint



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1. We will begin with a feature-length episode. In that, Hercule Poirot and Captain Hastings travel in France, where they meet strange businessman Paul Renauld, who wants Poirot to protect him from mysterious enemies. However, next morning, Renauld is found dead. What's the name of the episode?

Answer: The Murder on the Links

After Renauld is found dead, Poirot decides to investigate the murder and the result is a clash with Inspector Giraud of the Surete, an ambitious police detective who thinks of himself as the greater detective in France, resulting in a bet about who will catch the killer first.

There are some differences from the book to the episode, such as the merging of the Duveen sisters in one character, that of Bella. Moreover, while in the book Jack Renauld was Paul's son, in the episode he appears as Paul's stepson, because the time that had passed from the earlier crime Renauld was involved, the Beroldy case, where Renauld, known then as Georges Conneau, had murder Mr. Beroldy, manipulated by his wife.
2. In "The Theft of the Royal Ruby", Poirot is asked by a Mr Jesmond to retrieve a ruby. The jewel belongs to a prince who had it stolen by a young woman he had unwisely courted. What's the name of the prince and where does he come from?

Answer: Farouk of Egypt

After some grumbling, Poirot accepts the case and goes to the Lacey's house, where Farouk had spent time while in England. There, Poirot meets Colonel Lacey and his wife, who are worried by the fact that their granddaughter is attracted by a rake named Desmond Lee-Wortley. Col.Lacey's grandson, Colin, and his friends are unimpressed by Poirot as a detective and hatch a murder mystery, which Poirot uses in turn in order to catch the thief, who is revealed to be Lee-Wortley, who belongs in an organization which aims to free Egypt from British rule.
3. The figures of Commedia dell' arte make an appearance in the episode "The Affair of the Victory Ball", where Viscount Cronshaw is found dead in a masqueraded Victory Ball. Which victory is celebrated?

Answer: Entente victory in World War I

What kind of victory is celebrated has no role in the course of events. Poirot gets involved in the case because he was present at the ball and he feels insulted that the crime was committed under his very notice. On the next day, Coco Courtenay, a radio star rumored to be engaged with Cronshaw, is found dead in her apartment from an overdose of cocaine.

It is revealed that Cronshaw had found the identity of the man who was supplying Courtenay with the drug and was threatening to unmask him. The culprit, responsible for both Cronshaw's and Courtenay's deaths is Christopher Davidson, a co-star of Courtenay's, who was also the one that supplied her with cocaine.
4. In this episode, Poirot goes for vacation in an island in the Mediterranean, hoping to relax from solving crimes. It is there that Poirot's attention is caught by Valentine Chantry, a beautiful woman rumored to be romantically involved with Douglas Gold, on expense of Douglas' wife and Valentine's husband. Just when Poirot is sharing what he thinks a last drink with the guests, he learns that Valentine has been poisoned. In which island do those events take place?

Answer: Rhodes

The episode is, of course, named "Triangle at Rhodes". Unable to leave the island due to a problem with his passport, Poirot decides to investigate the murder, with a young lady named Pamela Lyall volunteering to help him. Douglas Gold is immediately suspected for the murder, with everyone believing he wanted to assassinate Mr. Chantry, but it was Valentine who drank the poison accidentally.

However, Poirot's investigations prove Douglas' innocence, since the real love triangle was not Valentine, Mr. Chantry and Douglas, but rather Douglas, Marjorie (his wife) and Mr. Chantry.

The later two were in love and wanted to marry, but Douglas' Catholic faith resulted in him not willing to divorce his wife. Thus, they decided to kill Valentine and blame Douglas for the murder.
5. In "The Lost Mine", while Poirot is facing problems with his bank account, his banker, Lord Pearson, introduces him to a murder mystery. A Chinese, Mr. Wu Ling, had in his possession a map of a lost mine and was willing to sell it to Lord Pearson's bank, but disappeared and was found dead shortly after he entered England. What metal was mined in the lost mine Mr. Wu Ling's map showed?

Answer: Silver

Poirot immediately agrees to investigate the case. He notices that, on the day of his disappearance, Wu Ling had an appointment with Charles Lester, a bank clerk and author of pamphlets about the business world. Lester was also an opium addict, often going to an opium den named "The Red Dragon".

However, Poirot's investigation reveals that Lester was a framed victim, not the killer. Wu Ling had been murdered by Chinese criminals immediately after his arrival in England and it was an imposter who checked in at the hotel and went to the meeting with Lester.

The fake Wu Ling went to the "Red Dragon" with Lester and, after the latter was under the influence of opium, he threw him besides Wu Ling's body. The fake Wu Ling had been hired by Lord Pearson, who wanted to gain profits from mining the silver.
6. In "Double Sin", Poirot and Hastings decide to go on vacation in the north of England. On the bus to their destination, they meet Mary Durrant, a young lady working for her aunt, Elizabeth Penn, who was an antique shop. Her job is to deliver portrait miniatures of important military personnel, who had whom as their commander?

Answer: Napoleon Bonaparte

Subsequently, when the bus makes a stop, the miniatures are stolen. While Poirot is reluctant to get involved in the case, largely because he is now a "retired" detective (actually, he forced himself to "retirement" because Chief Inspector Japp has been recently invited to give lectures about crime and his cases, in most of which he was greatly helped from Poirot), Hastings pitties the young lady and promises to catch the thieves, but he makes one blunder after another and fails to help the situation. Meanwhile Poirot, after sneaking in the hall where Japp was giving his lecture and hearing the Chief Inspector making very favorable remarks about Poirot and their collaborations, decides to investigate the theft, although he doesn't inform Hastings about that. Finally, Poirot reveals that there was no theft and that Mary Durrant and Elizabeth Penn had planned the incident, so as to throw suspicion to the buyer and thus get both the money and the miniatures.

As for the couple Hasting had been after for most of the episode, they turned out to be a lady and a writer, who had been secretly engaged.
7. "The Adventure of the Egyptian Tomb" begins with the death of the Egyptologist Sir John Willard, after the discovery of the tomb of a Pharaoh. SoonWillard's sponsor, Mr. Bleibner and Bleibner' s son, Rupert, are found dead, the senior Bleibner as a result of blood poisoning and the junior because of suicide. The press now speaks about the curse of the Pharaoh whose tomb Sir John Willard had discovered. Who as this Pharaoh?

Answer: Men-her-Ra

The reason Poirot got involved in the case was because of the plea of Willard's widow that Poirot will take care of her son, who goes to Egypt to resume his father's work. Soon another death occurs, that of Dr. Schneider, sent by the Metropolitan Museum of New York, because of tetanus.

After an adventurous investigation, including faking his own death, Poirot tells us that the murderer was Dr. Ames, the medical doctor accompanying the expedition. The motive was Rupert Bleibner's will, which named Ames as his heir, because he had saved his life while in university. Ames murdered Mr. Bleibner, to ensure his money would go to Rupert and then compelled Rupert to commit suicide, by telling him he had leprosy.

The sole reason behing Dr. Schneider's murder was the fact that Ames wanted to keep the curse story live. Finally, Sir John Willard's death, which inspired Ames to commit the murders, was of natural causes.
8. When Poirot is summoned by Mr. Holliday, a very wealthy businessman from Australia, it is not to investigate a financial scandal, but rather the murder of his daughter, Florence, aka Mrs. Carrington. She was murdered when aboard a train, on her way to visit some relatives. What's the name of the episode?

Answer: The Plymouth Express

Two are the main suspects: Rupert Carrington, Florence's estranged husband, with whom she wasn't legally separated by the time of her death and Count de la Rochefour, a French aristocrat attracted to Florence, with their romance reopening short before her death.

However, neither of them is the killer. As Poirot's investigation proves, it was the jewels she carried with her the motive from the murder. After searching Miss Lemon's archives, Poirot finds a smuggler named McKenzie, who has actually committed the crime with the help of Gracie Kidd, who was working as a maid for Florence under an assumed name.
9. In this case, Poirot doesn't find himself facing a seemingly unsolved murder mystery, or an incredible theft. Instead, he tries to prevent a murder from occurring. What's the name of the episode?

Answer: Wasps' Nest

In the start of the episode, Poirot meets an old friend of his, John Harrison, a successful novelist and his girlfriend, Molly Deane, who was previously engaged to Claude Langton, who appears as a clown to entertain children in local events. During a visit to Harrison's house, Poirot sees a wasps' nest and is told by Harrison that Langton will come and deal with it with cyanide, having failed once to do the job with the means normally used for pest control. Subsequently, Poirot is stung by a wasp and goes to the local pharmacist to have it looked.

There, he sees in the poison book an entry made by Langton, who purchased cyanide. Poirot goes to Harrison and confronts him about his plot to commit suicide with cyanide, but making it to appear that Langton had murdered him.

The reason was the fact that Molly Deane's romance with Langton had reopened and Harrison was very jealous. Moreover, Harrison had been told by his doctor that he was terminally ill and going todie in two months. Harrison admits it and drinks what he thinks is the poison, but Poirot had substituted it with soda, thus spoiling the scheme.

As Poirot is ready to leave, Harrison rises from his chair and thanks him for coming and not letting his plan come into effect.
10. This case begins with Poirot getting a visit from Mary Marvell, a Belgian actress whom the detective admires. Marvell tells him that she has received letters by a Chinese man warning her to return her precious diamond jewel to where it came from, the left eye of an idol. What's the name of the episode?

Answer: The Adventure of the Western Star

The name of the episode comes from the name of Marvell's jewel, which had been given to her by her husband, Gregory Rolf, three years ago in California. Subsequently, Lady Yardly, the holder of a diamond called "Eastern Star", which is the right eye of the idol.

The Marvels are going to stay in the Yardly's house, so that they can film a movie there. That night, in front of Poirot, Hastings, Mary Marvell, Gregory Rolf and Lord Yardly, the Lady's diamond is stolen, supposedly by a Chinese man. Poirot's investigation proves that the diamonds have no relation with China and that there are not two diamonds, but one.

It was owned by Lady Yardly, but she was blackmailed by Gregory Rolf to give him the jewel. Rolf arranged for a jewelry shop owner to make a copy of the diamond. Rolf gave the real one to Marvell.

The theft in the Yardly's house was arranged by the Lady. Yet, Rolf wanted to take the diamond from his wife and flee, fearing the consequences if the details of the story of the diamonds were revealed.

However he is caught, due to Poirot's interference. Poirot then gives Lady Yardly her diamond back.
Source: Author DeepHistory

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