TV AND FILM DETECTIVES

(e.g., This detective resided at 221B Baker Street. Answer: Sherlock Holmes.)

Freshman level

1. Sidney Poitier portrayed this detective in the film “In the Heat of the Night.”

2. Who headlined “The Rockford Files” as private investigator Jim Rockford?

3. Tom Selleck was this private investigator living on Oahu, Hawaii.

4. Peter Sellers was this bumbling detective in the “Pink Panther” movies.

5. Angela Lansbury played her on TV’s “Murder, She Wrote.”

Graduate level

6. Humphrey Bogart played this hard-boiled detective in “The Maltese Falcon.”

7. Peter Falk played this unkempt LAPD detective.

8. This Belgian detective was created by British writer Agatha Christie.

9. Humphrey Bogart portrayed this Raymond Chandler character in “The Big Sleep.”

Answers: 1. Virgil Tibbs. 2. James Garner. 3. Thomas Magnum. 4. Inspector Jacques Clouseau. 5. Jessica Fletcher. 6. Sam Spade. 7. Columbo. 8. Hercule Poirot. 9. Philip Marlowe.

— North America Syndicate