Q 01/05

Which actor, Doctor Octopus in Spider-Man 2, played Armand Gamache in the 2022 television series Three Pines?

A) Stanley Tucci

B) Brendan Gleeson

C) Alfred Molina

D) Ciarán Hinds

Answer · why

C) Alfred Molina

Alfred Molina was also an executive producer of Three Pines, which told four two-part mysteries before it was cancelled after a single season.

Q 02/05

Which former US secretary of state co-wrote the 2021 political thriller State of Terror with Louise Penny?

A) Hillary Clinton

B) Madeleine Albright

C) Condoleezza Rice

D) John Kerry

Answer · why

A) Hillary Clinton

Hillary Clinton and Penny made their heroine a secretary of state too, and Armand Gamache turns up in a minor role.

Q 03/05

Rosa, the constant companion of the elderly poet in Louise Penny's Three Pines, is which kind of animal?

A) A goose

B) A duck

C) A raven

D) A hen

Answer · why

B) A duck

A duck, Rosa hatched under the poet's care in The Cruelest Month, and fans love her for seeming to share her owner's taste for swearing.

Q 04/05

In Louise Penny's A Fatal Grace, CC de Poitiers is electrocuted while watching which sport on a frozen lake?

A) Ice hockey

B) Speed skating

C) Figure skating

D) Curling

Answer · why

D) Curling

Curling brings the whole village to the lake on Boxing Day, so the murder happens in front of a crowd, yet nobody sees how it was done.

Q 05/05

Louise Penny says kind, courteous Armand Gamache was inspired by which person in her own life, a Montreal doctor?

A) Her husband

B) Her father

C) Her brother

D) Her first editor

Answer · why

A) Her husband

Her husband, Michael Whitehead, headed hematology at Montreal Children's Hospital; they met on a blind date, and he urged her to quit journalism and w...