Quick Quiz - TV Detectives

By Barry Prince. Published on 14/11/2021
From the NZDF, Quick Quiz

The Quizmaster, Barry Prince (83) is aware of the irony of asking quiz questions of the AD community, when many of them suffer from memory problems, but explains: “My family member suffering from AD has wonderful memories about life in the 20th century, but struggles to recall what happened in the big netball tournament last week. Accordingly, I have selected quick quizzes from the archive that are focused on people and events before the new millennium.”
 
Each of the Quick Quizzes is confined to 10 questions a single subject – pop music, films, celebrities, history, and geography, for example. There aren’t any questions about politics or science – Barry says anyone who missed Chemistry and Physics at college won’t be handicapped. Most of the questions are about things that happened in the 20th century.

THE QUICK QUIZ – about men whose traditional costume includes a deerstalker and a magnifying glass

Name these fictional detectives you’ve seen in popular TV series

 

(Example: (a) Created by Ian Kennedy Martin. (b) Set in London. (c) Played by John Thaw. Answer: Jack Regan in The Sweeney)

 

Policemen or private-eye, they are in hot pursuit of the villains. Hello, hello, hello …

 

 

1.      R. D. Wingfield – Set in Denton, South Midlands. Played by David Jason

2.      Anthony Horowitz – Set in Hastings. Played by Michael Kitchen

3.      Dick Wolf – UK version, set in London. Played by Bradley Walsh

4.      Peter Robinson – Set in Yorkshire. Played by Stephen Tompkinson

5.      Colin Dexter – Set in Oxford. Played by John Thaw

6.      Caroline Graham – Set in Midsomer. Played by John Nettles

7.      W. J. Burley – Set in Cornwall. Played by Jack Shepherd

8.      Henning Mankel – Set in Ystad, Sweden. Played by Kenneth Branagh

9.      Alan Hunter – Set in Newcastle. Played by Martin Shaw

10.  Chris Chibnall – Set in Dorset. Played by David Tennant

 

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Answers

 

1.      R. D. Wingfield – Set in Denton, South Midlands. Played by David Jason –Jack Frost in A Touch Of Frost

2.      Anthony Horowitz – Set in Hastings during WWII. Played by Michael Kitchen – Christopher Foyle in Foyle’s War

3.      Dick Wolf – UK version set in London. Played by Bradley Walsh – Ronnie Brooks in Law And Order

4.      Peter Robinson – Set in Yorkshire. Played by Stephen Tompkinson – Alan Banks in DCI Banks

5.      Colin Dexter – Set in Oxford. Played by John Thaw – Endeavour Morse inMorse

6.      Caroline Graham – Set in Midsomer. Played by John Nettles – Tom Barnaby in Midsomer Murders

7.      W. J. Burley – Set in Cornwall. Played by Jack Shepherd – Charles Wycliffe in Wycliffe

8.      Henning Mankel – Set in Ystad, Sweden. Played by Kenneth Branagh –Kurt Wallander in Wallander

9.      Alan Hunter – Set in Newcastle. Played by Martin Shaw – George Gentlyin Inspector George Gently

10.  Chris Chibnall – Set in Dorset. Played by David Tennant – Alec Hardy inBroadchurch

 

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