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Crime Drama and Thrillers

Rain-soaked cities, awkward detectives and one very famous bridge. Follow the evidence through decades of crime television and film and see what you can solve.

📺 TV medium 20 questions ~7 min
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What this quiz asks

  • The BBC series Sherlock, which began in 2010, moves the detective to which present-day city?
  • The original CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, which began in 2000, is set in which city?
  • Peaky Blinders is set among the criminal families of 1920s Manchester.
  • Who directed The Silence of the Lambs, released in 1991?
  • Did Idris Elba play a London detective in the BBC series Luther?
  • Which 1995 David Fincher thriller stars Morgan Freeman and Brad Pitt as detectives chasing a killer inspired by the seven deadly sins?
  • Which American series, beginning in 1990, split each episode between the police investigation and the prosecution?
  • Select ALL of these crime dramas that were made in the United Kingdom.
  • Which actor played Hercule Poirot across ITV's adaptations from 1989 to 2013?
  • Which actor played Inspector Morse in the ITV series that began in 1987?
  • In which year was Alfred Hitchcock's thriller Psycho released?
  • Jed Mercurio created which BBC series about a police anti-corruption unit?
  • Agatha Christie's Miss Marple lives in the fictional English village of St Mary Mead.
  • Sally Wainwright's series Happy Valley is set in which part of England?
  • Put these crime series in order of first broadcast, earliest first.
  • Who created the ITV series Broadchurch, first broadcast in 2013?
  • Which Scandinavian series opens with a body left on the bridge between Denmark and Sweden?
  • Select ALL of these crime series that were adapted from novels.
  • Who created the FX series Fargo, which began in 2014 in the world of the Coen brothers film?
  • The Danish series Forbrydelsen is known to English-speaking audiences as what?