History of Mystery
Mystery TV Shows
Vocabulary
Types
Miscellaneous
100
Inspired Edgar Allen Poe to begin writing mysteries.
Who is Charles Dickens?
100
Jane Doe's real name in Blindspot.
Who is Taylor Shaw?
100
An investigator looking for and gathering clues.
What is a detective?
100
A mystery in which a murder, perhaps violent, is committed without bringing significant unpleasantness to the reader or other characters.
What is a cozy mystery?
100
Conspiracy theorists believe that this GOP presidential candidate may be the zodiac killer.
Who is Ted Cruz?
200
Erle Stanley Gardner published his stories in a popular pulp magazine specializing in crime fiction called ____________________.
What is Black Mask?
200
Killed Hailey Hotchner (Agent Hotchner's wife).
Who is George Foyet or The Reaper
200
A thing or statement that helps to prove who committed the crime?
What is evidence?
200
Mystery that is based on detectives.
What is a hard-boiled mystery?
200
56 "classic" books of this series were written
What is Nancy Drew?
300
From 1891 to 1893, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote stories featuring Sherlock Holmes, all avidly followed by the public. Holmes and his longtime nemesis, Professor Moriarty, are killed off in a book called _____________.
What is "The Final Problem"?
300
The BAU stands for _______________ in Criminal Minds.
What is Behavioral Analysis Unit?
300
A discovery that helps solve a crime.
What is breakthrough?
300
A genera which takes an alternate view of history.
What is steampunk mystery?
300
The most secret government testing facility known to US citizens.
What is Area 51?
400
In 1926, her husband asked for a divorce, having fallen in love with another woman. She later found happiness with her marriage in 1930 to Max Mallowan, a young archaeologist who she met on a trip to Mesopotamia.
Who is Agatha Christie?
400
Tormentor of five high school aged girls, formerly known as "A".
Who is Cece Drake? (Also acceptable; Charlotte Dilaurentis and Charles Dilaurentis)
400
A guess or feeling not based on facts.
What is a hunch?
400
A mystery that has super-natural or fantasy elements that takes place in an urban environment somewhere on Earth.
What is urban fantasy?
400
One of Edgar Allen Poe's most famous stories... "nevermore."
What is The Raven?
500
(Name) five major authors who wrote novels in a popular teen series under the pseudonym Carolyn Keene.
Who are: (accepted) Edward Stratemeyer, Edna Sratemeyer, Harriet Stratemeyer, Mildred Wort Benson, Walter Karig, Leslie McFarlane, James Duncan Lawrence, Nancy Axelrod, Priscilla Doll, Charles Strong, Alma Sasse, Wilhelmina Rankin, George Waller Jr., and Margaret Scherf.
500
Kidnapped Spencer Reid in Criminal Minds.
Who is Tobias Hanckle?
500
To infer by logical reasoning.
What does it mean to deduce?
500
Many of the "traditional" or "classic" mysteries of the 1920's and 30's, which contain significant elements of a puzzle.
What is a whodunit?
500
Since the eighties, hundreds of plaques have appeared overnight, embedded into the asphalt of dozens of major US cities and a handful of South African cities. All of these plaques include a variation of the same message.
What are the Tonybee Tiles?
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