Elementary? The Great Detectives Quiz
From Baker Street to the Orient Express, fiction's great detectives have been solving the impossible for nearly two centuries.
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Feysht 1
Where does Hercule Poirot come from?
- France
- Belgium
- Switzerland
- Luxembourg
Feysht 2
In which Conan Doyle story does Holmes say "Elementary, my dear Watson"?
- A Study in Scarlet
- The Hound of the Baskervilles
- The Sign of Four
- None of the original stories
Feysht 3
Which author created the private eye Philip Marlowe?
- Dashiell Hammett
- Raymond Chandler
- Erle Stanley Gardner
- Mickey Spillane
Feysht 4
Ian Rankin's Inspector John Rebus works in which city?
- Glasgow
- Aberdeen
- Edinburgh
- Dundee
Feysht 5
Who is often called the first fictional detective, from 1841?
- Sherlock Holmes
- Sergeant Cuff
- Inspector Bucket
- C. Auguste Dupin
Feysht 6
What is Lieutenant Columbo's job?
- Los Angeles police homicide detective
- Boston district attorney's investigator
- San Francisco insurance investigator
- Chicago newspaper crime reporter
Feysht 7
After Holmes 'died' at the Reichenbach Falls, what happened?
- Watson took over as the detective
- Conan Doyle never wrote about him again
- Only stories set before 1891 followed
- He returned alive in The Empty House
Feysht 8
Which author created Lord Peter Wimsey?
- Agatha Christie
- Margery Allingham
- Dorothy L. Sayers
- Ngaio Marsh
Feysht 9
What is Miss Marple's profession?
- Retired police inspector
- Former private detective
- Village schoolmistress
- She has none: an elderly amateur
Feysht 10
Inspector Morse's first name, long kept secret, is revealed to be what?
- Ernest
- Endeavour
- Edmund
- Edward
Feysht 11
Where did Sherlock Holmes's famous deerstalker hat first come from?
- Conan Doyle's first novel
- Sidney Paget's illustrations
- A 1939 Hollywood film
- The first stage play
Feysht 12
What nationality is Georges Simenon's Inspector Maigret?
- Belgian
- Swiss
- French
- Canadian
Feysht 13
Who created the crime-solving priest Father Brown?
- Arthur Conan Doyle
- E. W. Hornung
- Graham Greene
- G. K. Chesterton
Feysht 14
In how many novels does Dashiell Hammett's Sam Spade appear?
- One
- Five
- Three
- Twelve
Feysht 15
Andrea Camilleri's Commissario Montalbano works where?
- Naples
- Sardinia
- Calabria
- Sicily
