Q 01/05

What nationality is Hercule Poirot?

A) French

B) Belgian

C) Swiss

D) Dutch

Answer · why

B) Belgian

People constantly mistake him for a Frenchman, a slight he corrects with weary regularity.

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 phrase appears from his very first novel, alongside his other motto, "order and method".

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

Christie wrote it in 1916, mostly on Dartmoor, and it was published in the United States in 1920.

Q 04/05

How many novels does Poirot appear in?

A) 60

B) 33

C) 40

D) 51

Answer · why

B) 33

Add two plays and 51 short stories and you have the whole canon, published between 1920 and 1975.

Q 05/05

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

A) Elephants Can Remember

B) Hallowe'en Party

C) Third Girl

D) Curtain

Answer · why

D) Curtain

Christie wrote it during the Blitz and locked it in a bank vault; it was published a few months before her death in 1976.