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Agatha Christie Trivia Quiz
Little Grey Cells Poirot, Miss Marple and the murders that fooled the world. Trains, islands, poison and a few famous twists, so read the big ones first.
153 questions · 2 to 12 players, or solo · Typed answers, close enough counts
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This Agatha Christie Trivia Quiz has 153 questions: 54 easy, 61 medium and 38 hard. It is free. Play it with friends in a room for 2 to 12 players, on phones or in a browser, or play it solo. Type your answers: close enough counts, so a small typo still scores.
Sample questions
20 of the 153 Agatha Christie questions in this pack. Think of your answer, then open it.
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Finish Poirot's warning to Jacqueline in Death on the Nile: "Do not open your ___ to evil."
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Heart
He sees what's coming and tries to stop it. She tells him it's too late, and in a way she's right.
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Mrs Boynton, a family tyrant, is found dead among rose-red cliffs in Appointment with Death. Which ancient city is it?
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Petra
Christie knew the Middle East from her digs. The cliffs later became a famous Indiana Jones location too.
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Which Citizen Kane legend played Poirot in a one-hour radio version of The Murder of Roger Ackroyd in 1939?
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Orson Welles
He played two main roles at once, one year after his War of the Worlds broadcast panicked America.
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A rich heiress's old friend trails her and her new husband around the Nile, because the heiress stole her what?
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Fiance
She took him right after her friend introduced them. Poirot warns the jilted woman, and is ignored.
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What's the name of the steamer in Death on the Nile, also a famous Egyptian temple complex?
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Karnak
It runs from Shellal to Wadi Halfa. Christie took a trip on the Nile herself, with her husband and daughter.
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Poirot boards the Orient Express in which city, after a telegram calls him back to London?
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Istanbul
He was in the middle of a holiday there. Christie had once ridden this route herself and noted every detail.
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The A.B.C. Murders is one of the earliest novels about what now-common kind of killer, a term that didn't even exist in 1936?
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Serial killer
Readers had seen nothing quite like it. Today it's everywhere, from Netflix to true-crime podcasts.
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An old American lady on Poirot's steamer has a habit of stealing. What does she take from the dead heiress's cabin?
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Pearls
The real twist: what she took was already a fake. Someone else on board had swapped them first.
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A voice from Ratchett's compartment calls out to the conductor. Poirot later knows it can't have been Ratchett, because he didn't speak which language?
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French
Ratchett spoke only English, so whoever answered was someone else, already in the room with him.
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Poirot opens his own suitcase on the Orient Express and finds a clue someone planted there. What red piece of clothing is it?
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Kimono
Poirot had seen a woman wear it in the corridor. Nobody admits it's theirs, and then it lands in his own luggage.
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Beside the dead heiress in Death on the Nile, a single letter is scrawled in red. Which letter?
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J
It seems to point straight at Jacqueline, which makes Poirot suspicious: it looks far too neat for a real clue.
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Which 1930 book is the first full-length novel to star Miss Marple?
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The Murder at the Vicarage
She'd first shown up in short stories. Christie never expected her to rival her other detective, but she did.
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Old Major Palgrave is about to show Miss Marple something during a tale about a killer, then changes the subject and is soon dead. What was he about to show her?
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A photograph
It's the only clue to a man who may be right there at the resort. And then it can't be found.
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A notice in the local paper gives the exact time and place of a killing, and the neighbours turn up to watch. Which Marple novel is it?
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A Murder Is Announced
It was billed as her 50th book, with 50,000 copies printed. Many readers rate it her best Marple.
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"You do see, don't you, that she's got to be killed?" Poirot overhears that on holiday in which holy city?
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Jerusalem
It's the first line of the book, and one of Christie's best openers. Then he has to solve it in 24 hours.
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Which stepson of Roger Ackroyd vanishes after the killing, and becomes the police's prime suspect because of his shoes?
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Ralph Paton
The footprints under the window match his shoes. Poirot isn't convinced, and his fiancee Flora asks him to dig deeper.
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Death on the Nile's big twist: the heiress's new husband is in on it, with which woman he pretended to have dumped?
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Jacqueline de Bellefort
The two were still lovers. Her very public jealousy gave them the perfect alibi, and it fooled nearly everyone on board.
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Witnesses keep spotting a travelling salesman near each murder in The A.B.C. Murders. What is he selling?
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Silk stockings
It sounds like a small detail, but it's the first thing that links the crimes to a real person.
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On a train in The Murder on the Links, Hastings falls for a girl who gives only what fairy-tale nickname?
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Cinderella
She runs off with the murder weapon, yet he follows her to a new life on a ranch.
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The fourth letter in The A.B.C. Murders sends police to which race meeting town beginning with D?
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Doncaster
The whole country holds its breath for the St Leger, but the killer picks a local cinema instead.
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How many questions are in the Agatha Christie Trivia Quiz?
153. Each game plays a round of them, so you can come back for more.
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