Q 01/05

Which dairy product, the pride of Midsomer Pastures, is the murder weapon in 'Schooled in Murder'?

A) A churn of butter

B) A wheel of cheese

C) A block of ice cream

D) A tub of clotted cream

Answer · why

B) A wheel of cheese

A wheel of cheese kills Debbie Moffett at the dairy that makes the prized Midsomer Blue, and the case exposes secret plans to modernise it. The episod...

Q 02/05

Which electronic instrument gives the Midsomer Murders theme its eerie, wavering voice?

A) Theremin

B) Ondes Martenot

C) Mellotron

D) Moog synthesizer

Answer · why

A) Theremin

Theremin players never touch it: hands moving near two antennas set the pitch and volume. It grew out of Soviet government research into proximity sen...

Q 03/05

Midsomer takes its name from Midsomer Norton, a real town in which English county?

A) Wiltshire

B) Dorset

C) Somerset

D) Gloucestershire

Answer · why

C) Somerset

Somerset's Midsomer Norton lent its name to the fictional county, and the show then put 'Midsomer' in front of dozens of invented villages, from Midso...

Q 04/05

Which future film star played village thief Peter Drinkwater in the 2000 episode 'Judgement Day'?

A) Hugh Dancy

B) Orlando Bloom

C) Tom Hardy

D) Ben Whishaw

Answer · why

B) Orlando Bloom

Orlando Bloom's thief and lothario ends up stabbed with a pitchfork, nearly two years before The Fellowship of the Ring made him famous as Legolas.

Q 05/05

What breed is Sykes, the rescue dog in every John Barnaby episode for five years?

A) Border terrier

B) Jack Russell terrier

C) Beagle

D) West Highland terrier

Answer · why

B) Jack Russell terrier

Sykes was a Jack Russell terrier whose real owners retired him after series 18, so series 19 opened with the Barnabys at a grave in their back garden....