Born on September 15th 1890 Agatha Christie was one of literature’s most prolific writers – and her life wasn’t too far removed from one of her plots. This quiz celebrates this popular crime writer, her life and her works.
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Question of
What was Agatha’s maiden name?
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Miller
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Chandler
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Which European country does Hercule Poirot come from?
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Belgium
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Luxembourg
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Christie’s second husband was knighted in his own right – for services to what?
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Archaeology
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Chemistry
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The Mysterious Affair at Styles was Christie’s first success. Which of her famous detectives did it feature?
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Hercule Poirot
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Miss Marple
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Question of
How many days did Christie go missing for in December 1926?
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10 days
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4 days
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What is Christie’s best selling novel?
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And Then There Were None
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Murder on the Orient Express
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Miss Marple lives in what fictional village?
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St. Mary Mead
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Medenham Wells
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What was Christie’s pseudonym for some of her novels?
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Mary Westmacott
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Clarissa Boehmer
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Which character’s name from N or M led to Christie being investigated by MI5 in 1941?
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Major Bletchley
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Captain Turing
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Question of
18th November 2012 saw The Mousetrap reach how many London performances?
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25,000
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15,000
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Two of her characters – Thomas and Prudence Beresford – are better known as what?
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Tommy and Tuppence
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Mr and Mrs Smith
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Question of
In which novel is the first victim called Linnet Ridgeway?
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Death on the Nile
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Peril at End House
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What novel was Miss Marple’s last case?
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Sleeping Murder
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Curtain
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Which Christie novel was declared the best crime novel ever written – voted for by over 600 fellow crime writers?
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The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
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Death on the Nile
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Where did Christie work during World War 2 where she learned a great deal about poisons?
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University College Hospital
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Scotland Yard
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Which novel opens with eight people arriving on a small, isolated island off the Devon coast?
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And Then There Were None
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The Witness for the Prosecution
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Most of the action of which novel happens in a snowdrift near Vinkovci?
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Murder on the Orient Express
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The Man in the Brown Suit
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Which novel takes its title from Tennyson’s The Lady of Shalott?
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The Mirror Crack’d from Side to Side
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Taken at the Flood
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Which of Christie’s detectives says, “Unless you are good at guessing, it is not much use being a detective.”
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Hercule Poirot
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Miss Marple
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Which Christie title is taken from a line in Macbeth?
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The Pricking of My Thumbs
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Evil Under the Sun
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Question of
Finish the title of this Christie novel: Five Little —.
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Pigs
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Soldiers
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Which writer is the only one to beat Christie in the ‘best seller of all time’ list?
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Shakespeare
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Rowling
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Appointment with Death is set where?
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Middle East
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Russia
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Who was the character of Miss Marple based on?
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Christie’s grandmother
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The Queen Mother
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Which novel is set in the 1st World War in a manor house in Essex?
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The Mysterious Affair at Styles
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Cat Among the Pigeons
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