Q 01/05
A) Two
B) Four
C) Six
D) Ten
Answer · why
Her identity was kept secret until a journalist revealed it in 1949, after which she wrote two more.
Q 02/05
A) Brighton
B) Bournemouth
C) Torquay
D) Scarborough
Answer · why
She was largely home-schooled there, and later set Peril at End House in and around the town.
Q 03/05
A) More than 200 million
B) More than 500 million
C) More than 1 billion
D) More than 2 billion
Answer · why
Guinness World Records lists her as the best-selling fiction writer of all time.
Q 04/05
A) Codebreaking at Bletchley
B) Working in hospital dispensaries
C) Driving ambulances in France
D) Nursing on hospital ships
Answer · why
In 1977 doctors solved a real thallium poisoning case after recognising symptoms she had described in a novel.
Q 05/05
A) Three days
B) Eleven days
C) Three weeks
D) Two months
Answer · why
It followed her mother's death and her husband's request for a divorce, and made the front page of The New York Times.
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