| Wolfean thirty-fives: Name the character and the book | |
| 1. | At a trial, a jury awarded her one hundred and thirty five thousand dollars. |
| 2. | He was in the lobby of an office building from nine nineteen until twelve thirty-five |
| 3. | He caused more excitement in his one minute of dying than in his thirty-five years of living. |
| 4. | She could come to Wolfe's house, because she had no matinee today, and it was only ten thirty-five. |
| 5. | His horse, Casanova, emerged from Central Park, saddled but riderless, at seven thirty-five. |
The second Nero Wolfe novel, The League of Frightened Men, was published in 1935 |
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| 6. | In what magazine was The League of Frightened Men first serialized? |
| 7. | What city does Archie visit during the novel? |
| 8. | Archie describes what Mr. Wolfe calls the Anglo-Saxon theory of emotions and desserts. What is that theory? |
| 9. | How many blocks north of the brownstone must Archie walk to swap typewriters? |
| 10. | In toto, how many men are murdered in this book? |
Some other questions from the early years |
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| 11. | When Nero Wolfe decided he was overweight, what form of at-home exercise did he undertake, and what time of day did he do it? |
| 12. | What did Clara Fox steal from the Seaboard Products Company office? |
| 13. | In his youth, His Lordship the Marquis of Clivers sowed a few wild oats in the American west. Under what name did he sow them? |
| 14. | At the time of The Rubber Band, what was Mrs. Panzer's first name? |
| 15. | What, as of the time of Fer-de-Lance, was the brownstone's telephone number? |
| 16. | What did Mr. Wolfe give to Archie for a birthday present, and what was inscribed on each side of it? |
| 17. | What radio program did Mr. Wolfe rarely miss? |
Wolfe Meets Archie |
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| 18. | Through what case did Mr. Wolfe meet Archie? |
| 19. | Name two authors who have recounted the history of this case…. |
| 20. | … but when did Fritz claim there never was such a case? |
