Detective Quiz

1. A suspect assumes Hercule Poirot is French. Which detail would correct that misconception?

2. Veronica Mars conducts investigations while navigating school and local class divisions in which fictional California city?

3. During a Scooby-Doo investigation, one member analyzes clues, often loses her glasses, and is associated with the exclamation “Jinkies!” Who is it?

4. In which film did detective Benoit Blanc make his first screen appearance?

5. An FBI agent arrives in Twin Peaks, praises the coffee, and uses unconventional intuition while investigating Laura Palmer's death. Who is he?

6. Which author created Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson?

7. Which English village is most closely associated with Miss Marple?

8. A detective says that success depends on using the “little grey cells.” Whose method does that phrase identify?

9. An Oxford police inspector reluctantly reveals that his unusual first name is Endeavour. Which detective is this?

10. Bess Marvin and George Fayne arrive to help their friend investigate a new mystery. Which young detective are they assisting?

11. Commissioner Gordon switches on a rooftop signal after a complicated crime in Gotham City. Which detective figure is he trying to contact?

12. A mystery keeps interrupting a novelist's travels and quiet life in Cabot Cove. Which amateur sleuth has encountered it?

13. Many episodes of Columbo show viewers the culprit and crime near the beginning. What type of mystery structure does this create?

14. You read a Victorian case narrated by a doctor who shares rooms with a consulting detective at 221B Baker Street. Who is solving the case?

15. While visiting 221B Baker Street, you meet the woman traditionally identified as Holmes and Watson's landlady. Who is she?

16. A client brings a private investigator into a dangerous search for a valuable bird statuette. Which hard-boiled detective is at the center of the case?