d) Fort Sumter

The military post in South Carolina was attacked on April 12.

What Union fort was fired upon in 1861 to begin the U.S. Civil War?

a) Fort Blakeley
b) Fort Heiman
c) Fort Sanders
d) Fort Sumter

d) Roman Polanski

The Paris-born, Polish film director dedicated Tess to his wife Sharon Tate, who told him that the book would be a good movie and was murdered by members of Charles Manson's cult.

Who was the director of Rosemary's Baby, Chinatown, Frantic, and Tess?

a) Bernard Kowalski
b) Krzysztof Kieslowski
c) Peter Bogdanovich
d) Roman Polanski

• A1) Agatha Christie. Poirot debuted in The Mysterious Affair at Styles in 1920 and Marple debuted in Sketch magazine before appearing in the novel The Murder at the Vicarage in 1930?
• A2) Sherlock Holmes. The stories appeared as a serial in 1887 and as a book illustrated by his father Charles the following year.
• A3) Nick Carter. The sleuth appeared in over 100 books from the 1890s to the 1950s.
• A4) The Hardy Boys. The brothers have appeared in almost 400 books since 1926.
• A5) Alibi. 'A' Is for Alibi began the alphabetical sequence in 1982, and 'R' Is for Ricochet was book number eighteen in 2004.
• A6) Encyclopedia Brown. The Donald J. Sobol series began in 1963.
• A7) Mike Hammer. The strong-armed sleuth debuted in I, the Jury in 1947.
• A8) Robert B. Parker. Robert Urich played the Boston-based private detective from 1985 to 1988, a few years removed from his similar role as Dan Tanna in Vega$.
• A9) Charlie Chan. The sleuth debuted in A House Without a Key in 1925.
• A10) Raymond Chandler. The sleuth debuted in The Big Sleep in 1939.
• A11) P.D. James. The Scotland Yard inspector debuted in Cover Her Face in 1962.
• A12) Nero Wolfe. The detective first appeared in Fer-de-Lance in 1934.