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Secret_Squirrel
Secret_Squirrel
Safety Officer

Jun-26-2013 03:40

You have til 9am July 1, Sleuth Server time... oh yeah there IS a prize. A reasonable 'bragging rights' item of some variety.

Please post your answers below. You might want to hold off posting for as long as possible so people can't copy your answers, or you might want to be philanthropic and help your fellow sleuths out... your choice :)

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How Sleuthy are you?
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WHO?

Cryptic Sleuths

These are the names of famous Detectives in Literature or TV.

1. The King is a Dog.
2. Michael's short to be using tools.
3. Ronald's wife liked to doodle.
4. He's just joined the Monastery.
5. A fiddler who howled at the moon.
6. My US Uncle used to dig for a living.
7. Theyre robust lads, aren't they.
8. His clerical shirts were probably beige.

WHERE?

9. Writer come Detective Jessica Fletcher is based in which fictional town?
AND in which story for the big screen (though it was probaby straight to DVD :) ) did Angela Landsbury portray Miss Marple?
10. Amelia Peabody Emerson has most of her adventures in which Country?
AND What is the name of the character that appears to Amelia in her dreams to offer her advice?
11. In which city is the Big Sleep set?
AND what's the name of the sequel to the Big Sleep? (not written by Chandler)

WHAT?

What do these Authors / Fictional Detectives have in common?

12. Characters: Hercule Poirot, Thomas Magnum, Thomson and Thomson?
13. Characters: Flambeau, Monsieur Lecoq, Eugène François Vidocq
14. Authors: Anna Katherine Green, GK Chesterton, Patricia Wentworth.
15: Carter Dickson, Ellery Queen, Bartholomew Gill


Sorry some these you just can't gooooooogle. :) GOOD LUCK


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Secret_Squirrel
Secret_Squirrel
Safety Officer

Jul-19-2013 18:30

in the next hour or so...

Secret_Squirrel
Secret_Squirrel
Safety Officer

Jul-19-2013 20:10

OK So here is My Pub Quiz for the Month...>

You have til 9am July 29, Sleuth Server time... oh yeah there IS the Toby Jug prize or an equivalent cash incentive for over-achievers who win it twice....

Please post your answers below. >> You might want to hold off posting for as long as possible << so people can't copy your answers, or you might want to be philanthropic and help your fellow sleuths out... your choice :)

Part 1

"Everyone's a Mug"

Name the famous people inthe mugshots supplied.

This is a 'famous facedsround and requires you to open a .pdf file. That should be something everyone does anyway. It's a link to my dropbox folder, so just copy the link into your browser and your browser should open the file straight away. Let me know if you have any dramas via PM, and I can always email it out to you. It's even virus free :)

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/2816694/pubquizJuly2013.pdf

Part 2

A nice easy finishing round :)

"Sleuth 101"

1. What's the name of the Reporter in The Doomsayers Scripted Mysteries trilogy.
2. Is the Cairo Rug Merchant a good looking chap?
3. What're the odds on Siesta at the Shanghai Track?
4. What's the connection between the pianist on the Sleuthetania and the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest?
5. Not counting Travel Kit discounts how may cases does it cost to go from Delhi to London?
6. Where's my Sleuth Apartment based? Seriously, let me know, I can't remember.
7. How much does a sword cane cost in the Detective shop?
8. What's the name of the Case in the game's Tutorial?
9. Who caught the first Nemesis?
10. What's the name of the little girl in Scripted Mystery Murder on the Sleuthetania, and what's her dog's name?


Daenerys Targaryen
Daenerys Targaryen
Bibliophile

Jul-21-2013 01:13

Succumbing to a "shameless plug", I decided, out of the kindness of my heart, to help my fellow quizzers (sporadicators?) win the jug, but I expect a special prize for philantropy :D.

Part 1

1. Rosa Parks
2. Bill Gates
3. Johnny Cash
4. Al Capone
5. Lee Harvey Oswald
6. Martin Luther King
7. Elvis Presley
8. Igor Stravinsky
9. ?
10. Jane Fonda
11. ?

Part 2

1. Terrance (Terrence?) Zorn
2. Nope. "There in the middle of all that beauty, I found a decidedly ugly fellow: Mansour Shankouti, the Rug Merchant."
3. Winning payoff 32:1, placing payoff 5:1
4. Edwina Humperdinck the pianist / Engelbert Humperdinck, the singer who reperesented UK at the contest 2012
5. 3
6. Shanghai
7. $6500
8. ?
9. Andrew Corelli
10. Daisy, Misty

Bela Talbot III
Bela Talbot III
Con Artist

Jul-28-2013 04:53

For the well-being of everybody involved, I *really* shouldn't even try guessing the faces...though I even I one of them was Elvis Presley :)

Part 2 (Yay! Sleuth stuff!!!)

1. Terrence Zorn
2. God, no! Who told you that?!!
3. Siesta...dunno.
4. No idea. Unless it's something fortune-telling related...no? Okay.
5. 3 cases, I think. Yup.
6. Shanghai :) A huge pent-house; how could you have forgotten that?!!
7. *runs to the detective shop for the first time, in a loong time* $6500.
8. "The Straight-Forward Mystery of the Ancient Shock". Looks pretty random though, hopefully, it's the same for everybody :)
9. Andrew Corelli
10. I can't *sniff* remember :( I really need to go aboard the ship again...sometime.

Bela Talbot III
Bela Talbot III
Con Artist

Jul-28-2013 06:08

* even I could guess that one of them was Elvis Presley :)

Secret_Squirrel
Secret_Squirrel
Safety Officer

Jul-29-2013 16:07

Busy, busy, busy, week YAWN!!! I'll sort the actual answers out tonight. However from a field of two I can say with some surety that Daenerys Targaryen wins.

Let me know where you want your prize to go by PM and that that sleuth has a free hand slot :)



Bela Talbot III
Bela Talbot III
Con Artist

Jul-30-2013 06:46

Great, congrats Dany! :)

I should get to poking more people for the next one(s) :)

Daenerys Targaryen
Daenerys Targaryen
Bibliophile

Jul-31-2013 02:56

Thanks, Bela, and thank you for the interesting and unusual quiz, SS.

Secret_Squirrel
Secret_Squirrel
Safety Officer

Jul-31-2013 04:35

Sorry for my tardiness.

Prize deposited, answers below :)

Part I

1. Rosa Parks - Civil Rights Activist (the lady who wouldn't give up her seat in the coloured section of her bus to a white person whenthe white section was full.)
2. Bill Gates - International Criminal Mastermind
3. Jonny Cash
4. Al Capone
5. Lee Harvey Oswald
6. Martin Luther King
7. Elvis Presley
8. Igor Stravinsky
9. Bonnie Parker (of Bonnie & Clyde)
10. Jane Fonda
11. Fidel Castro - I bet the person who arrested him regretted that later down the line :)

Part II

1. What's the name of the Reporter in The Doomsayers Scripted Mysteries trilogy.
Terrence Zorn
2. Is the Cairo Rug Merchant a good looking chap?
Nope.
3. What're the odds on Siesta at the Shanghai Track?
32:1
4. What's the connection between the pianist on the Sleuthetania and the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest.?
'Humperdinck'... Englebert and Edwina.
5. Not counting Travel Kit discounts how may cases does it cost to go from Delhi to London?
3
6. Where's my Sleuth Apartment based? Seriously, let me know, I can't remember.
SHANGHAI?! Really. Wow.
7. How much does a sword cane cost in the Detective shop?
$6500
8. What's the name of the Case in the game's Tutorial?
The Straight-Forward Mystery of the Ancient Shock
9. Who caught the first Nemesis?
Andrew Corelli
10. What's the name of the little girl in Scripted Mystery Murder on the Sleuthetania, and what's her dog's name?
Daisy & Misty


Daenerys Targaryen
Daenerys Targaryen
Bibliophile

Aug-23-2013 09:52

Exactly how sporadic is "sporadic"? :)

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