Q 01/05

Lieutenant Columbo is a detective of what specific kind?

A) Homicide

B) Narcotics

C) Vice

D) Fraud

Answer · why

A) Homicide

Columbo is a homicide lieutenant, always arriving at a murder scene after the viewer has watched the killing; Peter Falk played him for 35 years acros...

Q 02/05

For which police department does Columbo work?

A) New York

B) Chicago

C) Los Angeles

D) San Francisco

Answer · why

C) Los Angeles

Los Angeles in the series is half invented: its creators called it a mythical city and set out never to show him at police headquarters or at home.

Q 03/05

What is Columbo's most famous item of clothing?

A) A wide-brimmed fedora

B) A rumpled beige raincoat

C) A brown leather jacket

D) A checked tweed cap

Answer · why

B) A rumpled beige raincoat

The rumpled beige raincoat was Peter Falk's own coat, which he brought to the role; with the cigar and the battered old car it completed the character...

Q 04/05

Columbo drives a battered old car of which make?

A) Renault

B) Citroen

C) Fiat

D) Peugeot

Answer · why

D) Peugeot

Peugeot sold its 403 convertible as a costly, leather-trimmed luxury model in small numbers; Columbo's is such a wreck that other characters keep taki...

Q 05/05

Which food does the show repeatedly mention Columbo loving?

A) Pizza

B) Meatballs

C) Chili

D) Doughnuts

Answer · why

C) Chili

Chili is what he orders even in a smart restaurant in 'Publish or Perish'; stung by the bill, he queries it, and the waiter puts it up because he had ...