English Lesson Quiz: The Mousetrap

The Mousetrap is a play about seeking revenge.

The Mousetrap has been onstage at the Ambassadors Theater since 1952.

Hercule Poirot is the detective solving the case.

The play is based on a real case: the death of a 12-year-old boy due to abuse, which occurred in England in 1945.

The killer chokes the victims while whistling the nursery rhyme "Three blind mice."

The radio play, The Mousetrap is based on, was named Three Blind Mice.

It was first presented on radio in 1947.

In the play, three people are killed by the murderer before he/she is revealed.

By 1958, The Mousetrap was already the longest running play in the UK.

Agatha Christie was sure the play would run for more than eight months.