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Agatha Christie's stage play The Mousetrap holds the record for the longest initial run.

Author - Agatha Christie

Agatha Cristie (née Miller) was born in 1890 in Torquay, Devon Her first book, The Mysterious Affair at Styles was published in 1920. This was the first outing of her famous creation Hercule Poirot.

Christie is the best-selling novelist of all time, having sold around 2 billion copies. Her most famous works are her detective stories, featuring Jane Marple, Parker Pyne, Tommy and Tuppence Beresford, and Harley Quin/Mr Satterthwaite as well as the aforementioned Hercule Poirot. She was made a Dame in 1971 for her contribution to literature and she died in 1976 at the age of 85.

Christie's stage play, The Mousetrap, holds the record for the longest initial run: it opened on the 25th of November 1952 and is still running today! Most of her books and short stories have been adapted for television or radio and over thirty films have been based on her work.

Test your knowledge of the life and works of Agatha Christie in this fun yet challenging quiz!

1 .

Christie wrote a series of romantic novels using what pseudonym?

Mary Wallencott

Mary Westmacott

Mary Winalot

Mary Wollstonecraft

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was the author of Frankenstein

2 .

Christie disappeared for ten days in 1926, eventually turning up in a hotel in which Yorkshire town?

Harrogate

Knaresborough

Scarborough

Whitby

She claimed to have suffered amnesia due to a nervous breakdown

3 .

Who played Poirot in the 1974 film version of Murder on the Orient Express?

Alan Bates

Peter Finch

Albert Finney

Richard Harris

The film was the first completely financed by a British company to make the top of the weekly US box office charts

4 .

What is the title of Christie's 1923 murder mystery in which a body is found on a golf course?

Murder on the Fairway

Murder on the Green

Murder on the Links

Murder in the Rough

The Murder on the Links was Christie's third novel and the second outing for Hercule Poirot

5 .

Which actress first played Miss Marple in the 1961 film Murder, She Said?

Joan Hickson

Peggy Mount

Margaret Rutherford

Maggie Smith

The film was based on the novel 4.50 from Paddington

6 .

In 1930 Christie married which archaeologist, 14 years her junior?

Sir Max Mallowan

Sir Max Mallory

Sir Max Mellors

Sir Max Molloy

This was her second marriage. She married Archibald Christie in 1914 and they were divorced in 1928

7 .

What is the title of Christie's 1953 novel featuring the death of Rex Fortescue?

Four and Twenty Blackbirds

The Maid Was in the Garden

A Pocket Full of Rye

Sing a Song of Sixpence

She often used nursery rhymes as plot devices

8 .

Miss Marple lives in which village?

St Mary Marsh

St Mary Mead

St Mary Meadow

St Mary Moor

St Mary Mead is said to be in the fictional county of Downshire in the 1930 book, The Murder at the Vicarage, but in the 1942 novel, The Body in the Library, the county has been renamed Radfordshire

9 .

Which Christie play, that opened at the Ambassadors Theatre in 1952, holds the record for the longest ever run in London?

The Honey Trap

The Mousetrap

The Parent Trap

The Rat Trap

The play was originally called Three Blind Mice but had to be renamed because Emile Littler had produced a play of the same name just prior to the Second World War

10 .

Hercule Poirot first appeared in which 1920 novel?

The Murderous Affair at Styles

The Mysterious Affair at Styles

The Strange Affair at Styles

The Unusual Affair at Styles

Styles is an English country house

Author: Tony Rennick