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Questions
Which author created the detective Sherlock Holmes?
Wilkie Collins
G. K. Chesterton
Arthur Conan Doyle
Agatha Christie
20s
Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson share lodgings at number 221B on which London street?
Baker Street
Oxford Street
Harley Street
Fleet Street
20s
Agatha Christie's detective Hercule Poirot is often mistaken for French. What nationality is he really?
Luxembourgish
Belgian
Dutch
Swiss
20s
Which character is described as the 'Napoleon of crime' in the Sherlock Holmes stories?
Professor James Moriarty
Charles Augustus Milverton
Irene Adler
Colonel Sebastian Moran
30s
In which wild area of Devon is The Hound of the Baskervilles mainly set?
Dartmoor
Exmoor
Bodmin Moor
The North York Moors
20s
Which writer created Father Brown, the Catholic priest who solves crimes?
G. K. Chesterton
Arthur Conan Doyle
Dorothy L. Sayers
Ellis Peters
30s
Which Agatha Christie play opened in London's West End in 1952 and has run there for decades?
Black Coffee
And Then There Were None
Witness for the Prosecution
The Mousetrap
30s
In which fictional English village does Miss Marple live?
King's Abbot
Market Basing
St Mary Mead
Midsomer Worthy
30s
In Murder on the Orient Express, what stops the train and traps Poirot with the suspects?
A railway strike
A landslide
A broken bridge
A snowdrift
30s
Which actor starred in ITV's Agatha Christie's Poirot, the series that adapted every Christie Poirot story?
David Suchet
Albert Finney
Kenneth Branagh
Peter Ustinov
30s