The Hercule Poirot quiz: 12 questions by Delmar H. Dolbier

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Agatha Christie's famous detective appeared in many novels and short stories. How much do you know about this celebrated sleuth?

Hercule Poirot was a native of what country?

France
Luxemburg
Belgium
Switzerland

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In what short story did Poirot solve the crime while still a uniformed policeman?

The Kidnapped Prime Minister
The Chocolate Box
Adventure of the Western Star
The Third Floor Flat

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Poirot's friend and assistant, Hastings, was usually addressed by his military title:

Lieutenant
Captain
Major
Colonel

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Poirot once solved a murder while he was a guest at an island hotel just off the coast of England. In what novel does Mrs Christie describe this adventure?

Evil Under the Sun
Ten Little Indians
A Pocketful of Rye
Hickory Dickory Death

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Sherlock Holmes had Inspector Lestrade; Hercule Poirot had Inspector _____.

Gregson
Clouseau
Dogg
Japp

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Most of the action in this novel takes place on a boat.

The Regatta Mystery
Appointment With Death
There Is A Tide
Death on the Nile

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Poirot was sometimes annoyed, sometimes helped by a female crime novelist named _____.

Mrs Ariadne Oliver
Mrs Molly Ralston
Mrs Griselda Clement
Lady Mary Lytton Gore

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In "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd" Poirot is depicted as retired, living in a village, and cultivating _____.

Roses
Orchids
Vegetable marrows
Beans

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Unlike the immortal Holmes, Poirot died. In what novel does Mrs Christie depict this sad event?

Death Comes As The End
Curtain
Remembered Death
Towards Zero

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In the earlier Poirot stories, the great man had a servant named Georges. Later this character's name changed to _____

Pierre
Armand
Arthur
George

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Agatha Christie's two most famous detectives are M. Hercule Poirot and Miss Jane Marple. In what story did these two collaborate to solve a crime?

"Partners in Crime"
"They Came to Baghdad"
"Cards on the Table"
It never happened

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Poirot liked to credit his success to his use of _____

Scientific method
The little gray cells
His intuition
Patience

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