Q 01/05

What nationality is Hercule Poirot?

A) French

B) Belgian

C) Swiss

D) Dutch

Answer · why

B) Belgian

Belgian, because Christie borrowed him from the refugees living in her home town of Torquay during the First World War. Characters in the books keep t...

Q 02/05

What phrase does Poirot use for the brainpower he relies on to solve cases?

A) The sixth sense

B) The little grey cells

C) The inner eye

D) The logical engine

Answer · why

B) The little grey cells

The little grey cells are his answer to detectives who crawl about hunting footprints and cigarette ash. He mocks one such rival as a "human foxhound"...

Q 03/05

In which novel did Poirot make his first appearance?

A) The Mystery of the Blue Train

B) The Mysterious Affair at Styles

C) The Murder on the Links

D) The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

Answer · why

B) The Mysterious Affair at Styles

The Mysterious Affair at Styles was finished in 1916, then sat unpublished for four years while publisher after publisher turned it down.

Q 04/05

In Cards on the Table, a party host is murdered while his guests play which game?

A) Poker

B) Bridge

C) Whist

D) Baccarat

Answer · why

B) Bridge

Bridge is both the alibi and the evidence: four suspects were playing in the room where their host was stabbed, and Poirot reads each one's character ...

Q 05/05

What is the title of the novel in which Poirot dies?

A) The Hollow

B) Sad Cypress

C) Dead Man's Folly

D) Curtain

Answer · why

D) Curtain

Curtain was written during the Second World War and locked away for over thirty years as a gift for Christie's daughter. It came out in 1975, a few mo...