The Three Investigators quiz

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1. 1 Easy

   What is the favorite hobby of the "Records and Research" man, Bob Andrews?

   Answer: Reading

   Why: Bob loves books and works part time at the local library, and early cases had him in a leg brace after multiple fractures from a fall.

2. 2 Medium

   What was the Screaming Clock?

   Answer: An alarm clock

   Why: Its scream was a woman's cry of mortal terror, and the clocks were built by a former sound-effects man from an old radio mystery show.

3. 3 Hard

   What European kingdom is the setting for The Mystery of the Silver Spider?

   Answer: Varania

   Why: The German translation moved this story out of Varania entirely, resetting it in Magnusstad, a Swedish colony in Texas.

4. 4 Easy

   Which case explores an ancient Egyptian curse?

   Answer: The Mystery of the Whispering Mummy

   Why: Robert Arthur's 1965 third case runs a second job alongside the curse: Pete hunts a missing Abyssinian cat named Sphinx.

5. 5 Medium

   Why was Alfred Hitchcock's name removed from later editions?

   Answer: Licensing rights expired

   Why: US books switched to the invented writer Hector Sebastian in 1981; Kosmos licensed the name in Germany until 2004, then renamed him Albert Hitfield.

6. 6 Hard

   What treasure did The Potter secretly guard in The Mystery of the Flaming Footprints?

   Answer: An imperial crown

   Why: The crown lay wrapped in cloth in an eagle-banded urn on The Potter's porch, while a copy in the National Museum fooled almost everyone.