ROY GRACE CHRISTMAS QUIZ
Prepared by Mastermind contender, Ken Owen
WELCOME to the Roy Grace quiz for Christmas 2011!
The quiz is deliberately intended to make YOU, like Roy Grace himself, do lots of detective work! You will need to check the
books, use your powers of deduction, and research other facts, to answer the questions.
It is perfectly possible that no-one will achieve a complete set of correct answers. So don’t despair if you can’t come up with
replies to every question – send your entry in anyway, you might still get more right than anyone else.
If we have more than one reply with the highest total score, there is a tie-breaker to decide the winner. At the end of the quiz,
there is space for you to write a limerick (normal five-line format) about Roy Grace. The best of these from any tied answer
sheets will be awarded the first prize. And the limericks of all entries will also be judged separately for the best one overall,
with a separate prize for that, regardless of the score in the quiz section.
Closing date for entries is Friday 6th January 2012. A list of answers and notes on the questions will be made available after
winners are announced.
Naturally, the judges’ decision is final in all matters. Away you go – and make a “dead good” job of it!
When you’ve completed the quiz, send your answers sheet back to pjamesxqanswers@gmail.com
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QUESTION
YOUR ANSWER
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Correct Answer
Notes
1
What star sign is Roy Grace?
LEO
Born July 26 DS p18
2
Glenn helps Roy choose new
clothing for a date with Cleo;
the brown unlined suede
blouson is by which designer?
JASPER CONRAN
LGD p260
3
Cleo takes Roy to
Glyndebourne; they see an
opera whose title character
appears in which other work,
by a different composer?
BARBER OF SEVILLE
They see Marriage of
Figaro (by Mozart);
Figaro is also in Barber
of Seville (Rossini).
NDE p8
4
Roy tells Frazier Theobald he
saw which musician in New
Orleans, whom Theobald calls
“the father”?
ELLIS MARSALIS
DMF p64
5
He prefers the nickname Yac;
but what his is actual full
name?
JOHN(NY) KERRIDGE
Yac = Young Autistic
Child. DLY p84
6
Tyler plays which iPhone
game, annoying his mother as
she drives?
ANGRY BIRDS
DMG p10
7
Grace is driven past a tyreshaped stadium; give its twoword name.
ALLIANZ ARENA
In Munich. NDE p256
8
It’s now Brighton Pier, but
most people still call it what
old name?
PALACE PIER
eg DLY p311
9
Give the nickname of the head
of the Specialist Search Unit,
due to her size and how she is
underwater
SMURF
Tania Whitlock turns
blue in the water.
DT p147
10 What make and model of car
does Cleo have after her MG?
AUDI TT
DT p125
11 Give the old name of the
country where Ronnie Wilson
is arrested.
SIAM
Former name of
Thailand; Koh Samui
airport DMF p561
12 What disturbs Brian Bishop as
he is about to tee off at the 9th
hole of his golf club?
A LADYBIRD
NDE p27 (the police do
not appear until he is
by the green)
13 On the day she disappears,
Sandy uses her credit card at
which two retailers?
TESCO (PETROL) AND
BOOTS
£16.42 and £7.50.
DS p57
14 Glenn Branson tells Roy he
looks like Brad Pitt – when he
is 100, in which film?
BENJAMIN BUTTON
DLY p301
15 Darren Spicer claims to have
been drinking on New Year’s
Eve at a pub with a name
which is the surname of three
sporting siblings who have
represented England. Give the
first names of these three.
GARY, PHIL AND TRACEY
(NEVILLE)
Tracey Neville has
been a significant
player for England
netball. (Note – the
Neville sibling’s father
is ... Neville Neville!)
DLY p283
16 On which floor of the World
Trade Centre is a character
due to meet Donald Hatcook?
87TH
Ronnie Wilson.
17 An assassin’s dog is named
after a character in which
classic novel?
CATCH 22
18 A sudden appearance of two
small boys on bicycles leads to
what?
VIC AND ASHLEY’S FATAL Boys on the bridge, Vic
CAR CRASH INTO THE
needs to avoid them.
RIVER
DS p444
19 If you insert a letter “T” into
which character’s surname
might you get into a pickle?
GLENN BRANSON
DMF p6
Yossarian, Tooth’s dog.
DMG p79
BransTon Pickle!
eg DS p71
20 On a certain case, Roy
requests a particular
individual as Deputy SIO; she
maintains her own what
(specifically please)?
HARLEY-DAVIDSON
MOTOR CYCLE
Kim Murphy.
NDE p137
21 What nickname does Simona
have for her strip of fur fabric?
GOGU
DT p56
22 Which London location, its
name also a type of
mushroom, was the source for
something Roy owns?
PORTOBELLO ROAD
Roy’s stuffed trout.
LGD p36
23 Give Caitlin’s blood group,
shared by only about 2% of
people.
AB NEGATIVE
DT p21
24 A character mentioned in the
first line of one of the novels
shares a first name with a
certain singer. For which Bond
film did that person perform
the theme song?
THE SPY WHO LOVED ME Carly Simon (as in Carly
Chase DMG p1), sang
Nobody Does It Better
for the film.
25 What is Roy Grace’s middle
name?
JACK
eg DLY p261
26 What is the punning title for a
magazine for
dactylographers?
FINGERPRINT WHORLD
Dactylographers are
fingerprinters. DS p69
27 In one book, a body has carpet
fibres under a false fingernail;
what is the correct technical
name for the crescent shaped
“white” area on the bed of a
fingernail?
LUNULA
DMF p107
28 How much is the reward
offered by Fernanda Revere
for information leading to the
identity of a driver?
$100,000
DMG p137
29 One character recalls lines
from a play recently seen with
friends; the lines also provide
the title of a Colin Dexter
novel. Which play?
THE JEW OF MALTA
(by Christopher
Marlowe: “and
besides, the wench is
dead”) DMF p151
30 Where was Roy and Sandy’s
first act of osculation?
(under the) PALACE PIER
Osculation = kissing.
DS p204/5
31 Which place, featuring in a
number of books, has a name
meaning “Goat Farm”?
GATWICK
eg DS p57
32 A cat in one book has what
name, taken from the
restaurant of a couple’s first
date?
YO! SUSHI
Roxy Pearce’s cat.
DLY p148
33 What specific motorbike
model does a hospital
registrar ride?
HONDA FIREBLADE
Nat Cooper DT p1
34 Abby is helped by a man called
Jason when she is hiding – he
works for which company?
MFI
DMF p309, 311
35 A cyclist involved in an
accident comes out of a side
road named after the capital
of which island?
JERSEY
St Helier – Anthony
Revere comes out of St
Helier’s Avenue
DMG p70
36 Roy calls Munich a
“Norwegian Lobster”; a
“Norwegian Blue” is famous in
what context in 1969?
Monty Python’s “Dead
Parrot” sketch
NDE p348
37 What puzzling two-word
description does Sergeant Jon
Rye use to log an incident
after taking a phone call from
a Swiss man?
WAR DRIVING
LGD p335 (“stealing”
Andreas Seiler’s
internet)
38 What part of a van is damaged
in a crash involving an Audi, a
Volvo articulated lorry and a
cyclist?
WING MIRROR
Anthony Revere’s fatal
smash. DMG p71
39 On the door of an incident
room, Glenn Branson pins a
cartoon from a film. What
does the Latin word in the
film’s title mean?
NO-ONE
Finding Nemo.
DLY p192
40 At a restaurant, Roy and Cleo
talk about which particular
expression of kefi?
(Greek) PLATE
SMASHING
(in contrast to Jewish
glass breaking). Kefi is
spirit of joy or passion.
LGD p259
41 Give Sandy’s maiden surname.
BALKWILL
DMF p208
42 A woman who runs to dodge a
taxi fare shares a surname
with a British gambler, friend
of a man who went missing.
What was that missing man’s
full name (not title)?
RICHARD/JOHN
BINGHAM
43 What could you obtain from
the firm of Erridge and
Robinson?
INSECTS
aka Lord Lucan, friend
of John Aspinall (of zoo
and gambling fame).
(John is middle name, but
Fare dodger is Donna
known by both)
Aspinall. DLY p508
(eg DUNG BEETLES)
LGD p238
44 Tyler’s mother arranges for a
friend’s husband to pick him
up from school to attend
what?
DENTAL APPOINTMENT
DMG p347
45 What are the Leaping
Leopards and Silver Sharks,
among others?
TEAMS AT DENARII
COLLECTION AGENCY
Lynn Becket works
there. DT p262
46 One New Year’s Eve, Roy
reflects that a new ACC is
starting in five days. He shares
a surname with an actress
who played which part in an
iconic 60’s TV series?
EMMA PEEL
Peter Rigg is ACC, cf
Diana Rigg, actress.
DLY p14
(from THE AVENGERS)
47 A certain medical man’s
surname is the same as a star,
the proper name of which
derives from the Greek for
“glowing”. What is the more
everyday name for the star?
DOG STAR
Star is Sirius, as in Sir
Roger Sirius. DT p462
48 Whose best friend shares her
surname with a theatre on
London’s South Bank?
KELLIE BRYCE’S
Lynn Cottesloe.
Cottesloe Theatre part
of National Theatre.
LGD p328
49 One way Cassian Pewe tries to
undermine Roy involves the
use of GPR – standing for
what?
GROUND PENETRATING
RADAR
In Roy Grace’s garden.
DMF p510
50 A man nicknamed after
mephitis mephitis has a pet
mesocricetus auratus; what is
its name?
AL
Skunk’s pet hamster.
NDE p24
Score
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