Q 01/05

In And Then There Were None, the absent hosts are Mr and Mrs U.N. Owen, a name punning on which word?

A) Unknown

B) Unowned

C) Unwanted

D) Undone

Answer · why

A) Unknown

Unknown is what the retired judge hears in the name, and he is the one who points it out after dinner. By then the guests have realised that not one o...

Q 02/05

Roughly how many copies has And Then There Were None sold, making it the world's best-selling mystery novel?

A) 1 million

B) 10 million

C) 100 million

D) 500 million

Answer · why

C) 100 million

100 million copies and more had been sold by 2007, putting it among the best-selling books of any kind. It has also been turned into more plays, films...

Q 03/05

Which animated sitcom parodied And Then There Were None in a 2010 hour-long episode called And Then There Were Fewer?

A) The Simpsons

B) South Park

C) Futurama

D) Family Guy

Answer · why

D) Family Guy

Family Guy opened its ninth season with the spoof, in which a dinner party turns into a string of murders. It was also the first episode of the series...

Q 04/05

After the first dinner in And Then There Were None, what delivers a murder accusation against everyone present?

A) A wireless broadcast

B) A gramophone record

C) A telephone call

D) A letter read aloud

Answer · why

B) A gramophone record

A gramophone record does it, put on by the butler, who is only following written instructions. The voice ends by asking whether the accused have anyth...

Q 05/05

And Then There Were None strands its ten strangers on a rocky island off the coast of which English county?

A) Cornwall

B) Dorset

C) Devon

D) Norfolk

Answer · why

C) Devon

Devon was home ground for Agatha Christie, who was born in the seaside town of Torquay. The BBC's 2015 version shot many of its beach and harbour scen...