Quiz: Miss Marple Trivia

What is Miss Marple's given name?

1. Agatha
2. Elisabeth
3. Felicity
4. Jane

Miss Marple lives in ________.

1. London
2. St. Mary Mead
3. Torquay
4. Wallingford

Miss Marple was first presented in the novel ________.

1. At Bertram's Hotel
2. The Body in the Library
3. The Murder at the Vicary
4. They Do It With Mirrors

Raymond West, a successful novelist, is Miss Marple's ________.

1. brother
2. cousin
3. nephew
4. son

________ is not Miss Marple's favourite activity.

1. bird-watching
2. cooking
3. gardening
4. knitting

Agatha Christie based the character of Miss Marple on ________.

1. her friend Nancy Neele
2. her grandmother
3. her mother
4. her mother's sister

Miss Marple's house was called ________.

1. Danemead
2. Danemouth
3. Gossington Hall
4. Old Hall

Which of these actresses did not perform Miss Marple on screen?

1. Gracie Fields
2. Jessica Fletcher
3. Joan Hickson
4. Margaret Rutherford

Miss Marple's method of untangling crimes is rather peculiar. The crimes always remind her of ________.

1. a book character
2. a parallel incident from St. Mary Mead
3. behaviour of various birds
4. her childhood

In one TV adaptation of a novel Miss Marple meets ________, another lead detective character created by Agatha Christie.

1. Hercule Poirot
2. Parker Pyne
3. Sven Hjerson
4. Tuppence Beresford