Q 01/05

Agatha Christie's fussy detective Hercule Poirot is often mistaken for a Frenchman but comes from which country?

A) Switzerland

B) Belgium

C) Luxembourg

D) Monaco

Answer · why

B) Belgium

Belgium is where Poirot was a celebrated police officer before he fled to England as a wartime refugee.

Q 02/05

Scooby-Doo, the cowardly cartoon dog who helps Shaggy and friends unmask fake ghosts, belongs to which breed?

A) Great Dane

B) Saint Bernard

C) Bloodhound

D) Mastiff

Answer · why

A) Great Dane

A Great Dane was the brief, but designer Iwao Takamoto drew Scooby with a sloped back, bowed legs and a sloping chin, the opposite of a prize-winning ...

Q 03/05

Which superhero, nicknamed the World's Greatest Detective, made his debut in issue 27 of Detective Comics?

A) Superman

B) The Flash

C) Batman

D) Aquaman

Answer · why

C) Batman

Batman became so tied to Detective Comics that the whole publisher now goes by its initials, DC.

Q 04/05

Which misanthropic TV doctor was modeled on Sherlock Holmes, right down to a home address numbered 221B?

A) Doug Ross

B) Derek Shepherd

C) Perry Cox

D) Gregory House

Answer · why

D) Gregory House

Gregory House treats every illness as a puzzle to crack, and his loyal friend Wilson was conceived as his Watson.

Q 05/05

In the 1963 comedy The Pink Panther, which introduced Inspector Clouseau, what is the Pink Panther itself?

A) A diamond

B) A jewel thief

C) A nightclub

D) A racehorse

Answer · why

A) A diamond

A diamond of enormous size carries the name because a flaw at its centre is said to resemble a leaping panther.