Q 01/05

Who plays Detective William Murdoch in Murdoch Mysteries?

A) Yannick Bisson

B) Daniel Maslany

C) Jonny Harris

D) Thomas Craig

Answer · why

A) Yannick Bisson

Yannick Bisson has played him since 2008 and works behind the camera too: he made his directing debut with the season four episode Buffalo Shuffle.

Q 02/05

When Murdoch Mysteries begins, what is Dr. Julia Ogden's job?

A) Hospital surgeon

B) City coroner

C) Asylum psychiatrist

D) Police matron

Answer · why

B) City coroner

City coroner Julia Ogden examines the bodies in Murdoch's early cases, then keeps reinventing herself: she later retrains as a psychiatrist and a surg...

Q 03/05

Which author's Detective Murdoch novels inspired the TV series Murdoch Mysteries?

A) Louise Penny

B) Margaret Atwood

C) Maureen Jennings

D) Gail Bowen

Answer · why

C) Maureen Jennings

Maureen Jennings modelled her hero on a real lawman: John Wilson Murray, who in 1875 became the province's first full-time government detective.

Q 04/05

Murdoch Mysteries moved to CBC in 2013, but which Canadian network first aired it?

A) CTV

B) Global

C) Showcase

D) Citytv

Answer · why

D) Citytv

Citytv launched the show in 2008 and dropped it after five seasons; CBC picked it up for the sixth, and there it found a much larger audience.

Q 05/05

Under what title did Murdoch Mysteries air for years on the US network Ovation?

A) The Artful Detective

B) Detective Murdoch

C) Murder 19C

D) Station House Four

Answer · why

A) The Artful Detective

The Artful Detective was Ovation's own title for it; in 2019 the arts channel dropped the name and began showing season 12 under the original one.