Agatha Christie Trivia

These easy Agatha Christie trivia questions are great for beginners and kids around age 12 and under.

1. Question 1

   In what year was Agatha Christie born?

   Answer: 1890

   Agatha Christie was born on 15 September 1890.

2. Question 2

   Which English town was Agatha Christie born in?

   1. A.Bath
   2. B.Canterbury
   3. C.York
   4. D.Torquay

   Answer: Torquay

   Christie was born in Torquay, Devon, England.

3. Question 3

   What was Agatha Christie's full birth name?

   Answer: Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller

   Her birth name was Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller.

4. Question 4

   Which famous detective was created by Agatha Christie: Hercule Poirot or Sherlock Holmes?

   1. A.Sherlock Holmes
   2. B.Philip Marlowe
   3. C.Nero Wolfe
   4. D.Hercule Poirot

   Answer: Hercule Poirot

   Agatha Christie created the detective Hercule Poirot.

5. Question 5

   What is the name of Agatha Christie's elderly village sleuth?

   Answer: Miss Marple

   Christie also created Miss Marple.

6. Question 6

   What was Agatha Christie's first published detective novel?

   Answer: The Mysterious Affair at Styles

   Her first published detective novel was The Mysterious Affair at Styles.

7. Question 7

   In what year was The Mysterious Affair at Styles published?

   Answer: 1920

   The Mysterious Affair at Styles was published in 1920.

8. Question 8

   Agatha Christie's novel The Murder of Roger Ackroyd came out in which year?

   Answer: 1926

   The Murder of Roger Ackroyd was published in 1926.

9. Question 9

   Which Agatha Christie play opened in London in 1952?

   1. A.Black Coffee
   2. B.Spider's Web
   3. C.The Mousetrap
   4. D.Witness for the Prosecution

   Answer: The Mousetrap

   The play The Mousetrap opened in London in 1952.

10. Question 10

    In what year did Agatha Christie die?

    Answer: 1976

    Agatha Christie died in 1976.

11. Question 11

    How many detective novels did Agatha Christie write?

    Answer: 66

    Christie wrote 66 detective novels.

12. Question 12

    How many short-story collections did Agatha Christie publish?

    Answer: 14

    She wrote 14 short-story collections.

13. Question 13

    Who did Agatha Christie marry in 1914?

    Answer: Archibald Christie

    Agatha Christie married Archibald Christie in 1914.

These family Agatha Christie trivia questions are built for mixed-age game nights, classrooms, and groups.

1. Question 1

   Who was Agatha Christie's mother?

   Answer: Clara Miller

   Her mother was Clara Miller.

2. Question 2

   Agatha Christie had an older sister. What was her name?

   Answer: Margaret Frary Miller

   Christie's older sister was Margaret Frary Miller.

3. Question 3

   What was the name of Agatha Christie's older brother?

   Answer: Louis Montant Miller

   Her older brother was Louis Montant Miller.

4. Question 4

   As a child, where was Agatha Christie educated most of the time?

   1. A.At Oxford
   2. B.home education
   3. C.At boarding school
   4. D.At a village academy

   Answer: At home

   Christie was educated primarily at home is a child.

5. Question 5

   True or false: Agatha Christie learned to read at an unusually young age.?

   Answer: True

   She learned to read at an unusually young age.

6. Question 6

   In which book did Hercule Poirot make his first appearance?

   Answer: The Mysterious Affair at Styles

   Hercule Poirot's first appearance is in The Mysterious Affair at Styles.

7. Question 7

   Miss Marple first appears in which novel?

   Answer: The Murder at the Vicarage

   Miss Marple's first novel appearance is in The Murder at the Vicarage.

8. Question 8

   Which Christie adventure first introduced Tommy and Tuppence?

   Answer: The Secret Adversary

   Tommy and Tuppence first appear in The Secret Adversary.

9. Question 9

   Parker Pyne first shows up in which title?

   Answer: Parker Pyne Investigates

   Parker Pyne first appears in Parker Pyne Investigates.

10. Question 10

    Harley Quin first appears in what Christie work?

    Answer: The Mysterious Mr Quin

    Harley Quin first appears in The Mysterious Mr Quin.

11. Question 11

    Which novel first introduced Superintendent Battle?

    Answer: The Secret of Chimneys

    Superintendent Battle's first novel appearance is in The Secret of Chimneys.

12. Question 12

    During the First World War, what volunteer role did Agatha Christie take on?

    Answer: She worked as a voluntary aid nurse.

    Christie worked is a voluntary aid nurse during the First World War.

These fun Agatha Christie trivia questions highlight surprising moments and playful facts for game-night groups.

1. Question 1

   Which Agatha Christie courtroom-flavored mystery is the play Witness for the Prosecution?

   Answer: Witness for the Prosecution

   Christie wrote the mystery play Witness for the Prosecution.

2. Question 2

   What famous train gives Murder on the Orient Express its moving setting?

   Answer: The Orient Express

   Murder on the Orient Express is set aboard the Orient Express train.

3. Question 3

   Death on the Nile mostly unfolds during a journey in which country?

   Answer: Egypt

   The novel is set largely on a Nile steamer in Egypt.

4. Question 4

   Which Christie novel is noted as one of the best-selling mystery novels ever published?

   Answer: And Then There Were None

   And Then There Were None is one of the best-selling mystery novels ever published.

5. Question 5

   Which Agatha Christie stage play features Hercule Poirot sipping his way into the action?

   Answer: Black Coffee

   Black Coffee is a stage play by Christie featuring Hercule Poirot.

6. Question 6

   In The ABC Murders, what pattern links the killings?

   Answer: An alphabetical pattern

   The ABC Murders uses an alphabetical pattern in its killings.

7. Question 7

   Which Christie title gathers four suspects for bridge before things turn deadly?

   Answer: Cards on the Table

   Cards on the Table revolves around four suspects gathered for bridge.

8. Question 8

   Agatha Christie herself singled out which novel as one of her own favorites?

   Answer: Crooked House

   Crooked House was one of Christie's own favorite novels.

9. Question 9

   Sparkling Cyanide sounds festive, but what does its title actually point to in the story?

   Answer: A poison used in the story

   The title Sparkling Cyanide refers to a poison used in the story.

10. Question 10

    Peril at End House swaps drawing rooms for which stretch of Britain?

    Answer: The Cornish coast

    Peril at End House is set on the Cornish coast.

11. Question 11

    Evil Under the Sun turns up the heat at what kind of location?

    Answer: A seaside resort hotel

    Evil Under the Sun takes place at a seaside resort hotel.

12. Question 12

    Sad Cypress borrowed its title from which Shakespeare play?

    1. A.Twelfth Night
    2. B.Hamlet
    3. C.Macbeth
    4. D.The Tempest

    Answer: Twelfth Night

    Sad Cypress takes its title from a line in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.

13. Question 13

    A Pocket Full of Rye gets its name from what kind of traditional verse?

    Answer: An English nursery rhyme

    The title comes from an English nursery rhyme.

These funny Agatha Christie trivia questions highlight playful moments, odd facts, and inside jokes.

1. Question 1

   Poirot’s first name sounds less like a Belgian detective and more like someone who might wrestle a lion. What is it?

   Answer: Hercule

   Poirot's given name is Hercule, the French form of Hercules.

2. Question 2

   In classic Christie fashion, the title "Why Didn't They Ask Evans?" comes from what kind of utterance?

   1. A.A courtroom objection
   2. B.A telegram from Evans
   3. C.dying man's last words
   4. D.A newspaper headline

   Answer: A dying man's last words

   The title comes from a dying man's last words.

3. Question 3

   True or false: the phrase in "Cat Among the Pigeons" is one that normally means causing sudden trouble.?

   Answer: True

   The title uses a phrase that normally means causing sudden trouble.

4. Question 4

   Which animal companion is specifically tied to the plot of "Dumb Witness" alongside the death of a wealthy woman?

   Answer: Bob the dog

   "Dumb Witness" centers partly on the death of a wealthy woman and her dog Bob.

5. Question 5

   Christie borrowed the title "One, Two, Buckle My Shoe" from what sort of source?

   Answer: A counting rhyme

   The title comes from a counting rhyme.

6. Question 6

   If "By the Pricking of My Thumbs" sounds suspiciously theatrical, that's because its title comes from which play?

   1. A.Hamlet
   2. B.King Lear
   3. C.Othello
   4. D.Macbeth

   Answer: Macbeth

   The title is taken from Macbeth.

7. Question 7

   The phrase behind "The Moving Finger" comes from whose work, proving Christie raided literature as expertly as she raided alibis?

   Answer: Omar Khayyam

   The moving-finger phrase comes from the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.

8. Question 8

   "Taken at the Flood" sounds urgent because it quotes a line from which Shakespeare play?

   Answer: Julius Caesar

   The title quotes a line from Shakespeare's Julius Caesar.

9. Question 9

   Across the Atlantic, "Taken at the Flood" was published under what American title?

   Answer: There Is a Tide

   "There Is a Tide" is the American title of "Taken at the Flood.".

10. Question 10

    Which Christie title is noted here for being almost comically blunt, as if subtlety had simply left the building?

    Answer: Mrs McGinty Is Dead

    "Mrs McGinty Is Dead" is noted is one of Christie's most bluntly comic titles.

11. Question 11

    Before anyone has time to act surprised, "A Murder Is Announced" begins with what very public method of advance notice?

    Answer: A newspaper notice

    The novel begins with a newspaper notice announcing a killing in advance.

12. Question 12

    "At Bertram's Hotel" is set in what kind of place—a location tailor-made for old-fashioned charm and suspiciously polished tea service?

    Answer: A London hotel

    The story is set in a London hotel famous for old-fashioned charm.

13. Question 13

    When English people shrug and call a mess 'disorder,' what principle does Poirot famously champion instead?

    Answer: Order and method

    Poirot repeatedly complains about disorder and insists on order and method.

These hard Agatha Christie trivia questions are for expert fans who want a real challenge.

1. Question 1

   Under what title did Agatha Christie publish her 1930 romance novel written under a pen name?

   Answer: Giant's Bread

   Christie's 1930 romance novel published under a pen name was Giant's Bread.

2. Question 2

   Which book launched Agatha Christie's Mary Westmacott line of novels?

   Answer: Giant's Bread

   The first Mary Westmacott novel was Giant's Bread.

3. Question 3

   Agatha Christie published Passenger to Frankfurt in what year?

   1. A.1968
   2. B.1973
   3. C.1977
   4. D.1970

   Answer: 1970

   Passenger to Frankfurt was published in 1970.

4. Question 4

   Name the 1968 Christie novel in the Tommy and Tuppence sequence referenced here.?

   Answer: By the Pricking of My Thumbs

   By the Pricking of My Thumbs was published in 1968.

5. Question 5

   Which Tommy and Tuppence novel, published in 1973, closed out that duo's run?

   Answer: Postern of Fate

   Postern of Fate, published in 1973, was the final Tommy and Tuppence novel.

6. Question 6

   What was the final published Poirot novel?

   Answer: Curtain

   Curtain was the final published Poirot novel.

7. Question 7

   Which Miss Marple title holds the distinction of being the final published novel for that sleuth?

   Answer: Sleeping Murder

   Sleeping Murder was the final published Miss Marple novel.

8. Question 8

   Christie's 1926 disappearance came after what major request from her husband Archibald?

   Answer: A divorce request

   Her 1926 disappearance followed her husband Archibald's request for a divorce.

9. Question 9

   During her disappearance, Christie checked into a hotel using which surname?

   Answer: Neele

   During the disappearance, she registered at a hotel under the surname Neele.

10. Question 10

    In what year was Agatha Christie's divorce from Archibald Christie finalized?

    1. A.1930
    2. B.1956
    3. C.1928
    4. D.1926

    Answer: 1928

    Her divorce from Archibald Christie was finalized in 1928.

11. Question 11

    Which publisher issued many of Agatha Christie's U.K. books?

    Answer: The Bodley Head

    Many of Christie's U.K. books were issued by The Bodley Head.

12. Question 12

    What honor was Agatha Christie appointed to in 1956?

    Answer: Commander of the Order of the British Empire

    Christie was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1956.

13. Question 13

    Max Mallowan, Christie's second husband, was best known professionally as what kind of specialist?

    Answer: An archaeologist specializing in the ancient Near East

    Max Mallowan was a noted archaeologist specializing in the ancient Near East.

14. Question 14

    Which 1964 Margaret Rutherford film was loosely based on Mrs McGinty's Dead?

    Answer: Murder Most Foul

    Murder Most Foul was the 1964 Margaret Rutherford film loosely based on Mrs McGinty's Dead.