Crime, Mysteries & Thrillers discussion

Who was Frederick the Great?

He led the Spanish in the slaughter of the Incas in Peru

Who was Pizarro?

British Prime Minister during World War II, he was voted #1 in Top 100 Britons.

Who is Winston Churchill?

What is the chemical abbreviation for Carbon Monoxide?

What is CO?

Avocado is the second fattiest fruit and this small fruit is the fattiest

What is the Durian?

The largest species of shark.

what is the rubik's cube?

This author grew up in Ireland, Italy, the US, and Malawi and has lived in Dublin since 1990.

Who is Tana French?

English dish that got its name from the fact that sausages containing excess water explode when cooked in high heat.

What is bubble and squeak?

Who invented alternating current?

Who is Hippolyte Pixii?

This royal was the last Emperor, or Tsar of Russia, abdicating in 1917.

Who was Nicholas II?

This author of suspense novels named ALL his bad guys for and modeled them after the bosses who fired him in 1995 from his 20-year job in British commercial television, and he calls his work his lifelong revenge project. This author also:

was born in 1954 in Coventry, England

went to law school in Sheffield, England

writes a popular series

has three homes—one in the US, one in France, and one in whatever airplane cabin he happens to be in while traveling between the two

is tall and slim, despite an appalling diet and a refusal to exercise

Who is Lee Child?

Born in Chicago, Illinois, this mystery writer is considered one of the founding fathers of the 'hard-boiled' school of detective fiction.

Who is Raymond Chandler?

What is a group of crows called?

A murder of crows.

This 1954 Hitchcock thriller starred Grace Kelly and ray Milland. One of my faves!

What is Dial M for Murder?


This African nation was the second to gain independence after Egypt.

What is Libya?

This DC Comics superhero swims at high speeds and communicates telepathically with sea creatures

Who is Christopher Reeve?

He played Dr. Watson in the Sherlock Holmes movies with Basil Rathbone.

Mike wrote: "He was the first actor to play Superman in early movie serials."

Who is Kirk Alyn? Not Christopher Reeve

So do we go with Richard's question?

Richard wrote: "He played Dr. Watson in the Sherlock Holmes movies with Basil Rathbone."


Who is Nigel Bruce


Set from 1945 to 1955 which film Stars Marlon Brando as an aging patriarch of an organized crime dynasty?

What is The Godfather?

A blow to the back of the neck is the punch named after this animal

What is a donkey punch?

Believed to be the only food that doesn't spoil

I was going to say anything from McDonald's but decided I better look it up; so what is honey?


This author's popular 2012 book trilogy started life as Twilight fan fiction.

Sue Em wrote: "What is a donkey punch?

I thought it was a rabbit punch.

Who is E L James? (I hope)

A group of owls is called a what?

what is a parliament?

Hollywood royalty. born in 2006 to an actor father and supermodel mother

Who is Suri Cruise?

He died in 1997, one of the funniest actors on TV and in film, most famous as the 'Fat Guy In a Little Coat'

Who is Chris Farley?

The name of the 1980 Moscow Olympics mascot was what.

Who was Misha the Bear?

It's the world's longest river whose outflow is into an entirely inland body of water

What is the Volga?

“The man who gave his name to America” is the subtitle of a 2007 bio of this Italian.

Who is Emil Jannings?

Over the span of 50 years, this actress won four oscars for Best Actress.

Who is Colonel Paul Tibbets?

This 17th century king named his throne room the Apollo Chamber.

Richard wrote: "This 17th century king named his throne room the Apollo Chamber."


Who is Louis XIV?

This place is limited to transportation by horse and buggy, bicycle, or foot and is surrounded by water. It has escaped the vast changes of time. Its real Victorian image is preserved and enhanced by a small population of 500 permanent residents and scores of summer residents who maintain bluff cottages in original state. Families, especially children, love their relatively newfound "mobility," exploring the historic, natural beauty of this place, honored by National Geographic as one of the ten finest in America.

What is Mackinac Island? [want to visit there]

The Ojibwe call this largest of the Great Lakes, Lake Gichigami, meaning "big water".

What is Lake Superior?

Creator of Lord Peter Wimsey

Who is Dorothy L. Sayers?

This creator of DOS became one of the world's richest men.

Who is Dorothy L. Sayers?

In 1530, the Holy Roman emperor gave it to the order of St. John of Jerusalem as a base against the Turks.

What is Malta?

This is the largest island in Canada, and the fifth largest in the world.

What is Greenland?

This city has the worst traffic in the United States.

I would think you could name any one of the major cities, but the worst is, What is Los Angeles?

This gutsy Toronto Maple Leaf hockey player is remembered for his performance in game six of the 1963–64 NHL season Stanley Cup finals against the Detroit Red Wings. Having broken his leg earlier in the game, he returned in overtime and scored the game-winning goal. The Leafs won the next game 4–0 to win the best of seven series, and secure their third consecutive Stanley Cup championship.

Leigh wrote: "What is Greenland?

Wrong - it's Baffin Island - Greenland is not in Canada.

Who is Bobby Baun?

The greatest quantity of snakes in one place is not in Africa, Australia or Central America, but found in this location which is the winter home of tens of thousands of Red-sided Garter Snakes. This location has the largest concentration of this particular type of snake in the world.

What is Manitoba?

What superhero is seen or discussed in every Seinfeld episode?

Who is Superman! :)

This natural and often stunning light display in the sky particularly in the high latitude (Arctic and Antarctic) regions, is caused by the collision of energetic charged particles with atoms in the high altitude atmosphere (thermosphere).

What are the Northern Lights (Aurora Borealis -spelling?)?

Skipjack and bonito are two varieties of this fish

What is the aurora borealis (aka Northern Lights)?

This insect is decimating pine trees in North America from Mexico to central British Columbia.

What is Mountain Pine beetle?

First synthesized by Albert Hofmann in 1938 from ergotamine, a chemical derived by Arthur Stoll from ergot, a grain fungus that typically grows on rye.

What is LSD?

(Sue Em -What is Tuna?)

Manitoba's a big place - the snake answer is the Narcisse Snake Dens, and yes, they are located in Manitoba, Canada.

Why is Roy G Biv significant?

Sorry, I asked a question instead of giving an answer!

Blue Mouse Ears, Chartreuse Wiggles, Patriot, and Sum and Substance are popular varieties of this perennial plant.

What are hostas?

Italian cruise ship hijacked by Palestinian terrorists in 1985

What is the Achille Lauro?

She used to be in the 80's band 'Til Tuesday, and her latest album includes the song Labrador.

Who is Aimee Mann?

The most recent of these devices can achieve accuracy to within about 1 second in every 3 million years