The Sherlock Holmes Quiz: Level Expert
The Sherlock Holmes Quiz: Level Expert
Can you follow the clues and beat our literary sleuth, showing that you're the biggest Sherlock Holmes fan around? Not for the faint hearted, this one is for true fans only.
Can you follow the clues and beat our literary sleuth, showing that you're the biggest Sherlock Holmes fan around? Not for the faint hearted, this one is for true fans only.
Whose encouragement first persuaded Holmes he could make a living as a detective?
Who or what is a Bruce Partington?
What object links Dr Mortimer in the Hound of the Baskervilles and Fitzroy Simpson in The Adventure of Silver Blaze
What sort of volume is needed to decode Porlock's book cypher in The Valley of Fear?
How many stories does Professor Moriarty actually appear in?
In Watson's character sketch of Holmes, what are the three subjects of which he says Holmes' knowledge is "Nil"?
What distinguishes the Adventure of the Blanched Soldier and the Adventure of the Lion's Mane?
What sport gives away Giles Gilchrist's attempted cheating in The Adventure of the Three Students?
How much does Holmes pay each of the "Baker Street irregulars" his "unofficial force" of street urchins per day?
Why, curiously, didn't the dog bark in the night?
How many of the Six Napoleons have been smashed when Lestrade calls in Holmes?
Which crucial Holmeisan document was written in 1742?
What's the book that Watson notices when he knocks it out of the disguised Holmes' hands in The Adventure of the Empty House?
Who was Blessington?
In which story is the illustration by Sidney Paget that shows Holmes in a deerstalker hat?
What links James Windigate, Sir George Burnwell and Captain Croker among others?
What does Holmes thrash with his cane to prove a point in The Problem of Thor Bridge?
What did Von Herder make?
According to Holmes what is "one of the most dangerous classes in the world'?
And according to Watson what class "gives us our crack volunteer regiments"?
Of what is Mordecai Smith the owner?
What turned Professor Presbury into the Creeping Man?
Where are the two stains in the Adventure of the Second Stain?
What are Gregory, Baynes and Bradstreet?
Which villain's name crops up slightly altered in a later story?
Who was Jonas Oldacre?
Where do the Stapletons live in The Hound of the Baskervilles?
Who led the mutiny of the prisoners on the Gloria Scott?
What was the Speckled Band?
What does Jabez Wilson's tattoo tell Holmes in The Red Headed League?
What does Holmes disguise himself as to trick Irene Adler in a Scandal in Bohemia?
What nickname did Percy Phelps, from whom the Naval Treaty is stolen, have when he was at school with Watson?
Why does the Veiled Lodger hide her face?
What problem of Watson's friend Isa Whitney draws the Doctor into the case of the Man With the Twisted Lip?
What is the Lion's Mane?
Which of these links Mr Culverton Smith and Colonel Sebastian Moran?
On whose trail is Lestrade when he calls at 221B Baker Street in the case of Charles Augustus Milverton?
What worries Reginald Musgrave about his second housemaid?
How does Holmes know that Dr Huxtable has taken three days to call him in the Adventure of the Priory School?
Which of these is NOT a case referred to in the stories