Q 01/05

Besides being an author, what was the creator of Perry Mason by profession?

A) A lawyer

B) A judge

C) A journalist

D) A police detective

Answer · why

A) A lawyer

A lawyer. In one case he had Chinese shopkeepers swap places before the police came to arrest them, then used the mix-ups to discredit the officers' i...

Q 02/05

In legal slang, a trial's 'Perry Mason moment' is a dramatic what?

A) Mistrial

B) Revelation

C) Objection

D) Acquittal

Answer · why

B) Revelation

Revelation. Mason's witnesses cracked on the stand almost weekly, but real trials rarely see such a surprise, because each side must show the other it...

Q 03/05

Earl Rogers, the real-life model for Perry Mason, defended which famous attorney on a 1912 jury-bribery charge?

A) William Jennings Bryan

B) Louis Brandeis

C) Clarence Darrow

D) Charles Evans Hughes

Answer · why

C) Clarence Darrow

Clarence Darrow. America's most famous defender was himself accused of trying to bribe jurors in a union bombing case, and Rogers won his acquittal ev...

Q 04/05

Perry Mason shares his name with the publisher of which magazine Gardner read as a boy?

A) Boys' Life

B) Youth's Companion

C) The Saturday Evening Post

D) Argosy

Answer · why

B) Youth's Companion

Youth's Companion. Gardner is said to have borrowed the name from its publisher, Perry Mason and Company, and in 1892 the magazine launched the Pledge...

Q 05/05

What was the first Perry Mason novel, published in 1933?

A) The Case of the Howling Dog

B) The Case of the Lucky Legs

C) The Case of the Sulky Girl

D) The Case of the Velvet Claws

Answer · why

D) The Case of the Velvet Claws

The Case of the Velvet Claws. Della warns on page one that the new client looks like a phoney, and with the book's sale Gardner gave up his day job to...