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Love A Good Mystery?

Ah, but how much do you really know about the mystery films and TV shows that have been made over the years? This quiz will test your mettle, as we see just how much of a mystery fan you really are!

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1) How many actors have played Ellery Queen on TV and in the movies?

a. 2
b. 5
c. 8
d. 11

2) What kind of dog did Columbo own?

a. beagle
b. collie
c. basset hound
d. Heinz 57

3) Which of the following movies does not involve a psycho with a split personality?

a. Color Of Night
b. Never Talk To Strangers
c. Suspect
d. Final Analysis

4) What famous detective, who had a long series of movies in the 1930's-1940's and three TV series in the 1950's and 1970's, had a “number one son?”

a. Columbo
b. Ellery Queen
c. Sherlock Holmes
d. Charlie Chan

5) In a 1940's movie serial Boris Karloff played a famous oriental detective. What was the detective's name?

a. Charlie Chan
b. Mr. Wong
c. Chow Yung Fat
d. Dr. No

6) What 1988 movie involves a poisoned college professor who must find his killer before he dies? (This was a remake of an earlier film of the same name)

a. Night Of The Falcon
b. Don't Look Now
c. Dead Man Walking
d. DOA

7) What kind of suit did Matlock always wear?

a. worsted wool
b. tweed
c. seersucker
d. linen

8) Leonard Nimoy, better know as Mr. Spock of Star Trek was a guest villain on which TV mystery show?

a. Diagnosis Murder
b. Quincy
c. Matlock
d. Columbo

9) What always happens when Jessica Fletcher comes to town?

a. someone gets killed
b. someone gets married
c. someone has a baby
d. someone gets mugged

10) What was Quincy's primary occupation?

a. police detective
b. coroner
c. doctor
d. jazz pianist

11) One British TV mystery series rarely involved murders. It usually involved stolen antiques. What is the name of the show and lead character (both are the same)?

a. Lovejoy
b. Jeeves
c. Blackadder
d. Clive

12) In how many episodes of Columbo did Jack Cassidy play the guest villain?

a. 1
b. 3
c. 5
d. 7

13) What was the name of the detective in the 1990's TV series Diagnosis Murder?

a. Lt. Harvey Jones
b. Dr. David Jansen
c. Professor Plum
d. Dr. Mark Sloan

14) Who played the detective in the above series?

a. Jerry Van Dyke
b. Joey Bishop
a. Andy Griffith
b. Dick Van Dyke

15) In theStar Trek The Original Series episode “Dagger Of The Mind,” who or what was the murderer?

a. Spock
b. a targ
c. Scotty
d. a knife possessed by a murderous psychic force

16) In the movie The Usual Suspects, which character turned out to be Soze, the criminal who set the other four up

a. Saul Berg
b. Verbal Kint
c. Michael McManus
d. Dean Keaton

17) Which of Agatha Christie's recurring detectives has had the most movies and TV shows made of their exploits?

a. Tommy and Tuppence
b. Hercule Poirot
c. Miss Marple
d. Colonel Johnny Race

18) Which of the following famous actors did not star in the mystery spoof Murder By Death?

a. Peter Ustinov
b. Peter Sellers
c. David Niven
d. Peter Falk

19) What actress who later starred in a recently ended science fiction series played Kate Columbo in the short-lived 1970's series Kate Loves A Mystery?

a. Jeri Ryan
b. Mira Fulan
c. Cheryl Ladd
d. Kate Mulgrew

20) What is the name of the Benedictine monk who plays detective in the books and TV series bearing his name?

a. Brother Cadfael
b. Prior Robert
c. Brother Centwin
d. Brother Prior

21) What Shakespearian actor played the above monk in the 1994-1996 TV series?

a. Sean Connery
b. Kenneth Branagh
a. Derek Jacobi
b. Richard Attenborough

22) What TV mystery series co-starred Nancy Walker as Mildred the housekeeper?

a. McCloud
b. Banachek
c. Magnum PI
d. McMillan and Wife

23) In the Sherlock Holmes book, and movies The Speckled Band, to what does the title refer?

a. a scarf
b. a gang of criminals
c. a snake
d. a garter

24) In the Star Trek episode "Elementary My Dear Data" which character accidentally made a too-clever nemesis for Holmes in a holodeck program?

a. Tom Paris
b. Geordi
c. Data
d. Spock

25) In Rear Window, who played the guy whodunit?

a. Raymond Burr
b. Orson Wells
c. Spencer Tracy
d. Jimmy Stewart

Bonus: Who was Holmes' arch-enemy and how many stories did he appear in? Name the stories.

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