Here is a 'Watching The Detectives' picture quiz, mostly of TV detectives and crime movies, with a few catchphrases and songs included to make the session more interactive and enjoyable.
Before beginning, ask members if they have a favourite TV detective?
Do they have a favourite actor or actress who plays a convincing sleuth?
Is the crime thriller a genre they enjoy?
What about their favourite thriller movie?
Or thriller author?
Would they prefer a gritty story, like 'Prime Suspect', or something a bit lighter like 'Father Brown'?
Who would prefer something completely different altogether, such as a comedy or musical?
Simplify the questions as appropriate, for example, just ask the name of the TV show.
Round 1. IDIOMS
Ask members to complete these well known phrases ...
Crimes and MISDEMEANOURS
Cover your TRACKS
Get caught red HANDED
Long arm of the LAW
Keep your nose CLEAN
Cops and ROBBERS
Do something by the BOOK
Come CLEAN
Fess UP
Turn yourself IN
Take the RAP
Guilty as CHARGED
He hasn't got a leg to STAND ON
Open and shut CASE
Judge, jury and EXECUTIONER
The jury is still OUT
Get off scot FREE
Get away with MURDER
Get a slap on the WRIST
Face the MUSIC
Throw the BOOK at someone
An eye for an eye, a TOOTH FOR A TOOTH
Take the law into your own HANDS
Turn a blind EYE
To bail someone OUT To serve TIME
You're under ARREST
It's a fair COP
Round 2. TV Dramas Prisons
Name these TV shows about justice &
Where was the first one set (in North Wales)?
What was the name of the prison in the second one?
Name the characters in the third one?
Name the characters in the fourth one?
Name the actress in the fifth one?
Which fictional character was involved in the 'Free The Weatherfield One' campaign?
Think of some names for police.
COPS, FEDS, FUZZ, COPPERS, OLD BILL, BOYS IN BLUE ETC
Think of some names for prison.
PORRIDGE, BIRD, BANGED UP, BIG HOUSE, CLINK, NICK, SLAMMER ETC
Song break - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5P_VfLun96o
Name the album?
How many of the celebrities can you name?
Round 3. Best Ever Solo TV Detective Shows
Name the TV detective &/or show?
& answer the following additional questions ...
Which author created her?
What was his catchphrase & what did he usually have in his mouth?
Name the character?
What was his catchphrase & what did he usually have in his mouth?
Which author created him?
Where was it set?
Name the character?
Which other TV detective series did he star in?
Name the character?
What did he live in?
Where was he from?
How was he disabled?
Where did he live?
What was his catchphrase?
Song break. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9u5zqKvC7E
Ask people to laugh along and see how many really end up laughing?
Round 4. Best Ever Crime Movies
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Name the 1954 movie?
Name the actor & the princess who starred alongside him?
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 | Name the 1960 movie? Who directed it & the one above? Name the actors? |
 | Name the 1962 movie? Who starred in it & who wrote the book? |
 | Name the 1963 movie? Who starred in it & what was his Chinese friend's name? |
 | Name the 1964 movie? Who starred in it & which cocktail does he drink? |
 | Name the 1967 movie? Who starred in it? Who had a hit single named after the pair? * song in playlist |
 | Name the 1968 movie? Who starred in it? Who sang the theme song 'Windmills Of Your Mind'? * song in playlist |
 | Name the 1968 movie? Who wrote the book? Who was the pickpocket master? |
 | Name the 1969 movie? Name the actor? Who sang the theme song 'On Days Like These'? (* song in playlist) Complete the phrase "You were only supposed to ..." |
 | Name the 1969 movie? Name the actors? Who sang the theme song 'Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head'? (* song in playlist) |
 | Name the 1972 movie? Who starred in it? What gangster organisation was it about? |
 | Name the 1976 children's movie? Who starred in it? What did their guns fire? |
 | VIDEO BREAK Final dance - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70TBABOzKSk&t=191s Who is singing the song? |
 | Name the 1978 movie? Who starred in the 1988 remake? What was the theme song for this later movie? * song in playlist |
 | Name the 1978 movie? Who starred in it? What was the detective's name? |
 | Name the 1979 movie? Who starred in it? Which bridge is nearby? |
 | Name the 1987 movie? Name the actors? T or F. This is where the term 'Bunny Boiler' comes from? |
 | Name the 1987 movie? Name the actors? |
 | Name the 1988 movie? Who starred in it? What TV series was it based on? "Nothing to see here" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKnX5wci404 |
 | Name the 1988 movie? Name these two actors? What comedy troupe were they part of? |
 | Name the 1988 movie? Who starred in it? |
 | Name the 1990 movie? Name the character? Name the criminal gang? |
 | Name the 1991 movie? Name the characters? Complete the phrase "I ate his liver with ..." |
 | Name the 1991 movie? Name the actors? What happened at the end? |
 | Name this 1994 movie? Name the actress? Which actor danced in this movie? Here he is - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSLMN6g_Od4 |
 | Name the 1995 movie? Name the actors? |
 | Name the 1996 movie? Who starred in it? Hoe many seconds before the tape self-destructs? |
 | Name the 2002 movie? Name the actors? Who is the one on the left married to? |
 | Name the 2007 movie? Name the actors? Which 2004 movie did they write and star in about zombies? |
Song break. 'Goldfinger', Shirley Bassey - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hn2oPN1cDQg
Name these six James Bond actors?
Round 5. Children's TV Crime Fighters
Name the children's TV show &/or characters?
& answer the following additional questions ...
Name the policeman?
Name the policeman?
Which city did they protect?
Name the characters & their van?
Name his dog?
Name the characters?
Who starred in the 1990 movie version?
What was his day job?
Name the detective?
Name the boys?
Name the senior officer & the town they "protect"?
Is he a man or a cyborg?
Ad break -
Who wrote the books?
What did they like to drink?
What was the name of their dog?
Round 6. TV Detective Double Acts
Name the TV detective duos &
What was the one on the left's catchphrase?
Where did the name come from (cockney rhyming slang)?
Name the actors?
Name the actors?
What vehicles did they use?
Which one was dead?
Name the actors?
Name the actors?
What street did they live on & who wrote the books?
Name the detectives?
Name the actors?
What was the one on the left's Christian name & what car did he drive?
Name the actors & where was it set?
Name the detectives & the show in which they appeared?
Who was their informer?
Song break. 'Don't Give Up On Us', David Soul - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YY8APrYU2Gs
What was the name of his other UK hit?
Round 7. Some Other TV Cop Series
Name the TV cop show &
In which city was it based?
Name the actors?
Who used to give them orders?
Which character liked his 'bling'?
What was his catchphrase?
Complete the phrase "Jesus, Mary and Joseph and ..."?
Who was their boss?
Final songs. Take your pic ...
'Nowadays', Chicago - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luef1H24hU8
Here is your Spotify playlist ...
PRACTICAL ACTIVITY
For a practical activity, you could play a game of 'Cluedo'.
Or a find the hidden object game - there are loads of apps available.
Or play a game of 'Who Am I'?
Round 2 Answers
Name these TV shows about justice?
Where was the first one set (in North Wales)? - 'PRISONER' / PORT MEIRION (HIS NUMBER WAS 6)
What was the name of the prison in the second one? - 'PRISONER CELL BLOCK H' / WENTWORTH
Name the characters in the third one? - 'PORRIDGE' / NORMAN STANLEY FLETCHER & LENNIE GODBER (SET IN 'HMP SLADE')
Name the characters in the fourth one? - 'BIRDS OF A FEATHER' / SHARON, DORIEN & TRACEY
Name the actress in the next one? - 'WITHIN THESE WALLS' / GOOGIE WITHERS
Which fictional character was involved in the 'Free The Weatherfield One' campaign? - 'CORONATION STREET' / DEIRDRE RASHID (BARLOW)
Paul McCartney; Linda McCartney; Michael Parkinson; Denny Laine; James Harrison Coburn; John Conteh; Sir Clement Raphael Freud; Christopher Lee; Kenny Lynch
Round 3 Answers
Which author created her? - MISS MARPLE (JOAN HICKSON) / AGATHA CHRISTIE
What was his catchphrase? - KOJAK (TELLY SAVALAS) / "WHO LOVES YA BABY?" / LOLLYPOP
Name the character? - 'MURDER SHE WROTE' / JESSICA FLETCHER / ANGELA LANSBURY
What was his catchphrase & what did he usually have in his mouth? - COLUMBO (PETER FALK) / "JUST ONE MORE THING" / CIGAR
Where was it set? - 'MAGNUM P.I.' (TOM SELLECK) / HAWAII
Who created the character? - 'FATHER BROWN' (MARK WILLIAMS) / G.K. CHESTERTON
Where was it set? - EDDIE SHOESTRING (TREVOR EVE) / BRISTOL
Name the character? - 'PRIME SUSPECT' (D.I. JANE TENNISON PLAYED BY HELEN MIRREN)
Which other TV detective series did he star in? - 'MIDSOMER MURDERS' (DS TOM BARNABY PLAYED BY JOHN NETTLES) / 'BERGERAC'
Name the character? - 'THE SAINT' / SIMON TEMPLAR (PLAYED BY ROGER MOORE)
Name the actor? - 'THE ROCKFORD FILES' / JAMES GARNER
Where was he from? - HERCULE POIROT / BELGIUM
How was he disabled? - 'IRONSIDE' (RAYMOND BURR) / SHOOTING INCIDENT
Where did he live? - 'JONATHAN CREEK' (ALAN DAVIES) / WINDMILL
What was his catchphrase? - 'DIXON OF DOCK GREEN' (JACK WARNER) / "EVENING ALL"
Round 4 Answers
'Rear Window', 1954 / James Stewart & Grace Kelly
'Psycho', 1960 / Alfred Hitchcock / Anthony Perkins & Janet Leigh
'To Kill A Mockingbird', 1962 / Gregory Peck / Harper Lee
'The Pink Panther', 1963 / Peter Sellers as Inspector Clousseau / Cato
'Goldfinger', 1964 / Sean Connery as James Bond / "Martini, shaken not stirred"
'Bonnie And Clyde', 1967 / Warren Beatty & Faye Dunaway / Georgie Fame
'Thomas Crown Affair', 1968 / Steve McQueen & Faye Dunaway / Noel Harrison
'Oliver', 1968 / Charles Dickens wrote 'Oliver Twist' / Fagin
'The Italian Job', 1969 / Michael Caine / "You were only supposed to blow the bloody doors off!" / Matt Monroe
'Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid', 1969 / Robert Redford & Paul Newman / B.J. Thomas
'The Godfather', 1972 / Marlon Brando as Vito Corleone / Mafia
'Bugsy Mallone', 1976 / Jodie Foster & Mathew Broderick / Gunge
'The Full Monty', 1997 / Tom Jones
'Great British Train Robbery', 1978 / Phil Collins starred in the movie 'Buster' / 'Two Hearts'
'Death On The Nile', 1978 / Peter Ustinov / Hercule Poirot
'Escape From Alcatraz', 1979 / Clint Eastwood / Golden Gate Bridge
'Fatal Attraction', 1987 / Glenn Close & Michael Douglas / True
'Lethal Weapon', 1987 / Mel Gibson & Danny Glover
'The Naked Gun', 1988 / Leslie Nielsen starred as Lt Frank Drebin / 'Police Squad'
'A Fish Called Wanda', 1988 / Kevin Kline & Michael Palin
'Who Framed Roger Rabbit?', 1988 / Bob Hoskins
'Home Alone', 1990 / Kevin McAllister played by Macaulay Culkin / 'The Wet Bandits'
'Silence Of The Lambs', 1991 / Hannibal Lecter played by Antony Hopkins & Jodie Foster as Agent Clarice Starling / "I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti"
'Thelma And Louise', 1991 / Geena Davis & Susan Sarandon / They drove off a cliff
'Pulp Fiction', 1994 / Uma Thurman / John Travolta
'The Shawshank Redemption', 1995 / Tim Robbins & Morgan Freman
'Mission Impossible', 1996 / Tom Cruise / 5 seconds
'Chicago', 2002 / Catherine Zeta-Jones & Renee Zellwegger / Michael Douglas
'Hot Fuzz', 2007 / Simon Pegg & Nick Frost / 'Shaun Of The Dead'
The six James Bond actors are:
Sean Connery (1962-1967, 1971 and 1983) Connery was the first actor to play James Bond, with many considering him the best. ...
David Niven (1967) ... (not in picture)
George Lazenby (1969) ...
Roger Moore (1973-1985) ...
Timothy Dalton (1987-1989) ...
Pierce Brosnan (1995-2002) ...
Daniel Craig (2006-2021)
Round 5 Answers
Name the policeman? - NODDY & PC PLOD
Name the officer? - 'TOP CAT' / OFFICER DIBBLE
Which city did they protect? - 'BATMAN & ROBIN' / GOTHAM
Name the characters & their van? - 'SCOOBY DO' / DAPHNE, VELMA, FREDDIE, SHAGGY & SCOOBY / 'THE MYSTERY MACHINE'
Name his dog? - 'HERGES ADVENTURES OF TIN TIN' / SNOWY
Name the characters? - 'MUTANT NINJA TURTLES' / Leonardo, Donatello, Raphael and Michelangelo
Who starred in the 1990 movie version? - DICK TRACY / WARREN BEATTY
What was his day job? - 'HONG KONG PHOOEY' / MILD MANNERED JANITOR
Name the detective? - 'THE PINK PANTHER' / INSPECTOR CLOUSSEAU
Name the boys? - NANCY DREW & THE HARDY BOYS
Name the senior officer & the town they "protect"? - CHIEG WIGUM / SPRINGFIELD
Is he a man or a cyborg? - 'INSPECTOR GADGET' / CYBORG
Who wrote the books? - 'THE FAMOUS FIVE' / ENID BLYTON
What did they like to drink? - LASHINGS OF GINGER BEER
What was the name of their dog? - TIMMY
Round 6 Answers
What was the one on the left's catchphrase? - 'HAWAII FIVE-0' / "BOOK 'EM DANNO"
Where did the name come from (cockney rhyming slang)? - 'THE SWEENEY' / 'SWEENEY TOOD, FLYING SQUAD"
Name the actors? - 'MOONLIGHTING' / BRUCE WILLIS & CYBILL SHEPHERD
Name the actors? - 'MIAMI VICE' / CROCKETT & TUBBS (DON JOHNSON & PHILIP MICHAEL DAVIES)
What vehicles did they use? - 'CHIPS' / STARRING JOHN BAKER AS LARRY WILCOX & ERIK ESTRADA AS FRANK PONCHERELLO / MOTORBIKES
Which one was dead? - 'RANDALL AND HOPKIRK DECEASED' / STARRING KENNETH COPE AS MARTY HOPKIRK & MIKE PRATT AS JEFF RANDALL
Name the actors? - 'MCMILLAN AND WIFE' / STARRING ROCK HUDSON AS STEWART MCMILLAN & SUSAN SAINT JAMES AS HIS WIFE
Name the actors? - 'HART TO HART' / STARRING ROBERT WAGNER & STEPHANIE POWERS
What street did they live on & who wrote the books? - 'SHERLOCK' (JOHN WATSON PLAYED BY MARTIN FREEMAN & SHERLOCK HOLMES PLAYED BY BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH) / BAKER STREET / SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
Name the characters? - 'THE X-FILES' / DANA SCULLY (GILLIAN ANDERSON) & FOX MULDER (DAVID DUCHOVNY)
Name the actors? - 'THE STREETS OF SAN FRANSISCO' / KARL MALDEN & MICHAEL DOUGLAS
What was the one on the left's Christian name & what car did he drive? - 'INSPECTOR MORSE' (ENDEAVOUR) (JOHN THAW) / JAGUAR (LEWIS WAS PLAYED BY KEVIN WHATELY)
Name the actors & where was it set? - 'CAGNEY AND LACEY' (SHARON GLESS & TYNE DALY) / NEW YORK
Name the detectives & the show in which they appeared? - CHARLIE FARLEY & PIGGY MALONE / 'THE TWO RONNIES'
Who was their informer? - STARSKY & HUTCH (DAVID SOUL & PAUL MICHAEL GLASER) / HUGGY BEAR
Round 7 Answers
In which city was it based? - 'Z CARS' / LIVERPOOL
Name the actors? - 'THE NEW AVENGERS' / JOHN STEED (PATRICK MCGEE), MIKE GAMBIT (GARETH HUNT) & PURDEY (JOANNA LUMLEY)
Who used to give them orders? - 'CHARLIE'S ANGELS' (JACLYN SMITH, FARAH FAWCETT MAJORS & KATE JACKSON) / JOHN BOSLEY
Which character liked his 'bling'? - 'THE A TEAM' / MR T
What was his catchphrase? - 'HILL STREET BLUES' / "LET'S BE CAREFUL OUT THERE'
Complete the phrase "Jesus, Mary and Joseph and ..."? - 'LINE OF DUTY' / "JESUS, MARY AND JOSEPH AND THE WEE LITTLE DONKEY"
Who was their boss? - 'DUKES OF HAZZARD' / BOSS HOGG
