La Esponja Grande

May 14-15, 2010

Answers to Super Bonus 1 - Mysteries

21 "Murders in the Rue Morgue"
22 The killer is an escaped orangutan, who was able to climb onto a pole above the window and travel across rooftops.
23 The Mystery of the Yellow Room
24 The police inspector, her ex-husband, tried to kill her. The woman locked herself in for protection, but did not want to incriminate her husband.
25 The Chinese Orange Mystery
26 He used the spears to prop up the victim so that he would fall onto the door's lock as it closed, and is hiding the fact that the victim is a priest.
27 Hercule Poirot's Christmas
28 The policeman who had dropped by earlier (secretly a long-lost brother) killed him, then set up the furniture in a large pile with a corked pig balloon, hung the string out the window, then left, locking the door, and went outside to pull the string from the balloon, causing the tremendous noise.
29 Feet of Clay
30 The candle-wicks have been soaked in arsenic
31 "The Red-Headed League"
32 A criminal mastermind has used this fictitious organization as a ruse to get him out of his shop so that he could burrow underground into an adjacent bank vault, then erased all trace of it when his tunnel was done.
33 And Then There Were None/Ten Little Indians
34 Justice Wargrave faked his own death, set up the deaths of the others, then committed suicide in a manner resembling his earlier staged death.
35 Sleuth
36 The police inspector is the lover in disguise, and he has set up the evidence to prank the novelist back.
37 The Moonstone
38 Franklin Blake was drugged with opium by Mr. Candy to prove a point about the efficacy of medicine. While drugged, he took the diamond from Rachel's room, and when he returned to his room, Godfrey Abelwhite tricked it away and pawned it.
39 Have His Carcase
40 The victim was a hemophiliac and thus his blood had not clotted; he had been killed much earlier, and the killer had ridden through the tide on a horse to cover his trail.
41 "A Lamb to the Slaughter"
42 The Name of the Rose
43 Basic Instinct
44 The Sign of Four
45 Se7en
46 A Few Good Men
47 The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
48 12 Angry Men
49 Clue
50 The Westing Game
51 "The Adventure of the Speckled Band"
52 Chinatown
53 "The Purloined Letter"
54 When the Sacred Ginmill Closes
55 "Who Shot Mr. Burns?"
56 The Usual Suspects
57 Murder on the Orient Express
58 Memento
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime
60 The Lady Vanishes
61 The Mirror Crack'd From Side to Side
62 "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"
63 In the Heat of the Night
64 L.A. Confidential
65 Laura
66 "The Scandal in Bohemia"
67 The Brothers Karamazov
68 To Kill a Mockingbird
69 "The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia"
70 Vertigo
71 Jame Gumb
72 Billy Loomis and Stu Macher
73 John Kramer
74 Nathalie Davis
75 Scott Shelby
76 His sister-in-law Kristin Shepard
77 Fred Johnson/Charles Nicholas
78 Judge Doom
79 Leland Palmer, while possessed by Bob
80 Judge Ethan Rickover
81 Bruno Hauptmann
82 David Berkowitz
83 Ted Kaczinsky
84 Albert DeSalvo
85 Faisal Shazad
86 Inspector Pierre Clouseau
87 Albert Campion
88 Jules Maigret
89 Dr. Greg House
90 Sid Halley
91 Dirk Gently/Svlad Cjelli
92 Nick and Nora Charles
93 The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm
94 Robert Ironside
95 Brother Cadfael
96 Jessica Fletcher
97 Miss Jane Marple
98 Veronica Mars
99 Nancy Drew
100 Rabbi Small
101 James Qwilleran
102 Meyer Landsman/The Yiddish Policeman's Union
103 Precious Ramotswe/The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
104 The Black Widowers/Henry
105 Bernie Rhodenbarr
106 Perry Mason
107 Ben Matlock
108 The Hardy Boys
109 Nero Wolfe
110 Encyclopedia Brown
111 Sherlock Holmes
112 Charlie Chan
113 Ghostwriter
114 Easy Rawlins
115 Inspector Endeavour Morse
116 Sherlock Holmes
117 Adrian Monk
118 Nero Wolfe
119 Batman
120 Perry Mason
121 Prof. Moriarty
122 Carmen San Diego
123 Caspar Gutman/ "The Fat Man"
124 Brik Schitt-Hawse/Goliath Corp.
125 Dr. Claw
126 Cam Jansen
127 Lt. Frank Columbo
128 Sgt. Joe Friday
129 Theo Kojak
130 Shawn Spencer
131 Sue Grafton
132 Kinsey Millhone
133 Janet Evanovich
134 Stephanie Plum
135 Carole Nelson Douglas
136 Midnight Louie
137 James Patterson
138 Alex Cross
139 Stieg Larsson
140 Mikael Bloomkvist/Lisbeth Salander
141 Monterey Jack
142 Frank Columbo
143 Fred Jones
144 Michael Knight
145 Sam
146 Burton Guster
147 Law & Order
148 JAG
149 CSI: Miami
150 CSI: New York
151 Law & Order: Criminal Intent
152 Cold Case
153 Criminal Minds
154 Without a Trace
155 NCIS
156 Richard Castle
157 Ariadne Oliver
158 Jessica Fletcher
159 Harriet Vane
160 Temperance "Bones" Brennan
161 a bishop kick a hole in a stained glass window. [Accept creative answers for these five.]
162 a darn sight less coy.
163 she looked like something made up to be seen from thirty feet away.
164 didn't care who knew it.
165 hand-wrought duelling pistols, curare, and tropical fish.
166 Perfect Crime
167 Shear Madness
168 The Mousetrap
169 The victim in the original Cluedo
170 Edward Gorey

Notes from Dave Letzler

As expected, the first 20 questions of Super 1 were rough--a number of teams got Rue Morgue, And Then There Were None, Red-Headed-League, and Moonstone, but the others only fell to the occasional lucky Googler. Similarly, with the exception of the famous line about blondes making a bishop kick a hole in a stained glass window, no one except Sleep Tight (who managed to know "didn't care who knew it" and a variant of "should be seen from 30 feet away") legitimately got any Chandler lines (as said over the air, best invention, also from Sleep Tight--"The robe she was wearing came open, and underneath it she was as naked a September morn but...the dew was still glistening"--another good one from Bender was 'From thirty feet away she looked like a lot of class. From ten feet away...she looked like kindergarten"). Others that (I believe) no one got: Roger Ackroyd, When the Sacred Ginmill Closes, Albert Campion, Bernie Rhodenbarr, and Ariadne Oliver (perhaps among others). On the other hand, people did quite well on the procedural clones. The best answers to the extra credit (as read on air): D.B. Cooper became a silent partner in Goldman Sachs, the Gardner paintings were stolen by Phantom Limb from Venture Brothers (and/or taken by her grandchildren for use as sleds), and the Black Dahlia was killed by Josh Harnett's bad reviews. Funny answers were accepted for 171-175.


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