Q 01/05

The 1932 kidnapping of which famous aviator's baby son inspired the Armstrong case in Murder on the Orient Express?

A) Howard Hughes

B) Charles Lindbergh

C) Jimmy Doolittle

D) Eddie Rickenbacker

Answer · why

B) Charles Lindbergh

Charles Lindbergh's 20-month-old son was taken from his crib and found dead even though a ransom was paid. Christie reworked the case two years later ...

Q 02/05

In Murder on the Orient Express, the killers who each stab Ratchett in turn see themselves as which kind of body?

A) A jury

B) A posse

C) A rival gang

D) A militia

Answer · why

A) A jury

A jury is how the twelve avengers see themselves, since their victim had escaped the courts. Each strikes once in the dark, so nobody can know whose b...

Q 03/05

Which actor and director cast himself as Hercule Poirot in the 2017 film of Murder on the Orient Express?

A) Ralph Fiennes

B) Denzel Washington

C) Ben Affleck

D) Kenneth Branagh

Answer · why

D) Kenneth Branagh

Kenneth Branagh directed himself as Poirot and came back for two sequels. He said he enjoyed finding the obsessive-compulsive in the detective rather ...

Q 04/05

Agatha Christie liked the 1974 film of Murder on the Orient Express but was let down by which feature of its Poirot?

A) His accent

B) His height

C) His moustache

D) His hairpiece

Answer · why

C) His moustache

His moustache fell far short of the magnificent one she had written for her detective. Even so, it was one of only two screen versions of her books th...

Q 05/05

Which actress won an Oscar for 1974's Murder on the Orient Express in a small role as a missionary?

A) Wendy Hiller

B) Ingrid Bergman

C) Vanessa Redgrave

D) Rachel Roberts

Answer · why

B) Ingrid Bergman

Ingrid Bergman was offered the grander part of Princess Dragomiroff but insisted on playing Greta Ohlsson. Her one big scene was filmed as a single ta...