Literary Questions
Name of the author we are currently reading (first and last).
Who is Agatha Christie?
Played the record that listed everyone's crimes.
Who is Thomas Rogers?
The name of the man with a fancy sports car who happens to be the first casualty in the book.
Who is Anthony Marston?
This mysterious individual invited all ten of our characters to Indian Island.
Who is U. N. Owen?
This is the number of living guests remaining before the beginning of Chapter Ten (our next chapter in the book).
What is seven?
Year of original publication of And Then There Were None (within five years).
What is 1939 (UK), 1940 (US)?
Takes a rope down to try and find a cave in a search for anyone on the island.
Who is Philip Lombard?
The names of all three female characters in the book.
What are Emily Brent, Vera Claythorne and Ethel Rogers?
The novel takes place on a small, isolated island off of this incredibly famous English coast.
What is Devon?
This is the exact name of the instrument used to implicate all the guests in their respective crimes (it is not a "record player").
What is a gramophone?
The honorary title given to our current author, by her fans, for her body of work.
What is "The Queen of Crime" or "The Queen of Mystery?"
Character that discovers the poem in their room, allowing the reader to see it for the first time.
Who is Vera Claythorne?
The World War I veteran who gazes out to sea until he dies from blunt force trauma.
Who is General John Gordon MacArthur?
This man operated in a drunken manner upon a patient who then lost her life.
Who is Dr. Edward George Armstrong?
According the the novel's poem, this is the way our next victim is meant to go down.
What is "Seven little Indian boys chopping up sticks; One chopped himself in halves and then there were six?"
The only two literary works that outsell the work of our current author.
What are The Bible and The Works of William Shakespeare?
These are the first three characters to die in the novel (in the order they died).
Who are Anthony Marston, Ethel Rogers, and General John Gordon MacArthur?
This individual brings a revolver to Indian Island.
Who is Philip Lombard?
The exact phrase used to describe what her maid became - by the woman who kicked her out - leading to the girl's eventual suicide.
What is "in trouble?"
This is the first name of the man that Mr. Justice Wargrave sent to his death, even though it appears he was innocent.
What is Edward (Seton)?
According to the poem in the novel, this happens to the last "little Indian boy."
What is he hangs himself?
This character figures out, finally, that the entire group has been "trolled," and that "U. N. Owen" is merely another way of saying "unknown."
Who is Mr. Justice Wargrave?
This man is the sailor who is expected to show up at Indian Island, yet never does.
Who is Fred Narracott?
This is the reason the World War I general sent his friend, Richmond, to his death.
What is he was committing adultery with his wife, Leslie?
This is the former occupation of one William Henry Blore.
What is a police inspector?