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 |
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.