Sherlock Holmes Quiz


Pit your wits against the Great Detective


1. How did 'Black Peter' meet his end?

He was shot with a revolver
He was stabbed with a harpoon
He was clubbed with a belaying pin
He was crushed against a dock


2. Holmes once said:
"It is of the highest importance in the art of detection
to be able to recognize out of a number of facts which are
incidental and which are vital."
In which story?

The Reigate Squire
The Bruce Partington Plans
The Three Garridebs
Shoscombe Old Place


3. How many brothers did James Moriarty have?

Two
Three
Four
None


4. Where did Holmes first meet Watson?

The Northumberland Hotel
The dissecting room at Charing Cross Hospital
The chemical lab at St. Bartholemew's Hospital
The Criterion Hotel


5. Where did Neville St. Clair live?

London
Leeds
Lee
Sussex


6. Where did Dr Percy Trevelyan live?

302 Northumberland Road
27 Baker Street
Paddington Square
403 Brook Street


7. Sherlock Holmes wrote several monographs.
Which of the following is one of them?

The physiology of the human ear
The Book of Life
Footprints
Deduction as a science


8. How many pipes would Holmes smoke while pondering a difficult problem?

Two
Three
Four
Five


9. Who was the Countess of Morcar's maid?

Kitty Winters
Dora Cossack
Catherine Cusack
Coleen Cruikshank


10. The phrase "Elementary, my dear Watson" appears in the Canon how many times?

once
twice
three times
never


11. Who was 'the missing three-quarter'??

Cyril Overton
Geoffrey Stanton
Godfrey Staunton
Godfrey Norton


12. What is the Latin name for the Devil's Foot Root?

Pax Vobiscum
Redis Diabolical
Rex Paedis Diabole
Radix Pedis Diaboli


13. What was Holmes affliction in The Dying Detective?

Typhoid
Formed Consumption
Black Formosa Corruption
Malingering


14. What did Baron Gruner collect, besides women?

Japanese Literature
Chinese Pottery
Japanese Paintings
Chinese Sculpture


15. The character disfigured by a lion attack was featured in which story?

The Red Circle
The Creeping Man
The Veiled Lodger
The Yellow Face


16. How was Holmes wounded trying to save a woman from an unfortunate marriage?

He was shot through the arm
He was bitten on the thumb
He recieved scalp wounds and bruises
Bruised ribs


17. What item disclosed the unhappy secret of Watson's brother?

His watch
His cane
His portrait
His snuff box


18. 221b Baker Street indicated that the address was:

One of two adjoining apartments
The smaller of two adjoining buildings
On the second floor
On the first floor


19. Who was Watson's first wife?

Mary Morestan
Irene Adler
Mary Kelly
Isadora Klein


20. What was the problem Commissionaire Peterson brought to Holmes?

The Norwood Builder
The Three Garridebs
The Blue Carbuncle
The Abbey Grange


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