The Best And Rather Long Sherlock Holmes Quiz

A Sherlock Holmes hat

He doesn't wear a hat because his brain's too big

A deerstalker, not a 'Sherlock Holmes' hat. Hate it when people call it that

I'm still too angry about that 'Sherlock Holmes hat' answer to answer

The murderer! Duh

Uh... The murderer's mother?

He was too busy seducing Holmes

I don't have time for this lovey-dovey stuff; I'm a cold-blooded logician

His mustache got in the way

Moriarty

That's what Watson calls his mustache (I mean, probably)

Moriarty

Nothing else to do. Victorian times were hella lame

Gaaaaaaay

Hound of the Baskervilles ate him

He was murdered

The Silver Blaze and the Empty House

Trick question. No one stays dead for long in Sherlock Holmes

The Hound of the Basketballs and the Adventure of the Devilled Egg

He falls from the waterfall, taking Holmes with him. (And I'll have you know it's the Reichenbach Falls, not 'the waterfall', you simpleton)

Watson shoots him with an airgun

He doesn't die. Don't be a boob

Twelve

None

He had one, but the hound of the basketballs ate him

"I am, and always will be, your friend."

"I don't shave for Sherlock Holmes."

Yes!

I thought Sherlock Holmes was a vampire?

No! Unless you mean Batman

A medical student playing a prank

Santa misread her letter

Because she didn't understand the true meaning of Christmas

None of these choices. And I didn't find that 'Beeswax Clementine' thing funny at all

What is that? A fruit?

As many as you want there to be

Gay

Elementary, my dear Watson

The Hound of the Basketballs

His mustache (because Watson tots stole it)

His brain (what is this, the Wizard of Oz?)

His eye

Sherlock Holmes uses a wax effigy of himself to confuse his enemies

It's the only time Watson uses the descriptive "singular"

Watson isn't in it

Watson

"The Hound of the-" "You say that one more time and I'll gut you."

Batman

Yes!

I'm just sad Watson's not in them, TBH

A Christmas goose

A bust of Churchill

It was in the safety deposit box the entire time

The soon to be brother-in-law of the man translating it

Charles Augustus Milverton

No. He stole the treaty so he wouldn't have to get married ('cause he's his fiancée's father, awks)

Yes. First there was the treaty stolen, and then this guy in black WITH A KNIFE trying to break into his bedroom...!

He didn't see anything of significance, because his luxuriant mustache got in the way

He got into a brawl in the pub for asking the wrong questions- and because of his luxuriant mustache

He got into a brawl in a pub

It's an American gang name. They've even got t-shirts and everything

It is the gay community of Victorian England

It's a code used by the gay community in Victorian England

Hugh Boone, the beggar

Watson's luxuriant mustache

His wife

It's a Beatles song.

I have no idea

It's an English swear word. It's pretty rude, actually

Turn of the Screw

The Hound of the Baskervilles

The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire

Pycroft's wife

Spiderman

Sherlock Holmes

Watson shaves off his moustache to pretend to be a woman, but Holmes is like "naw, man, I'm the detective, I'll dress like a woman."

Sherlock Holmes dresses like a woman in a veil, but Milverton finds out, and Watson saves the day by shooting him (Milverton, not Holmes)

Watson dresses like a woman in a veil to get close enough to Milverton to shoot him

He's a polygamist

Once, to Mary Mortsan, but she dies

The beryl coronet

Do you count pastiches? 'Cause then there's billions and millions. Or maybe a hundred or so. Lots

I don't know how to count; I need to have room in my attic-brain for important things. Like how to recognize forty-two different bicycle tire treads. (wait, if I don't know how to count, how did I...?)

The giant rat of Sumatra gave him rabies

Impossible

What is this, Never-Never land?

Hums the Mission Impossible theme

Book? You mean there are Sherlock Holmes books AND movies?

The story that had the Doctor Who crossover. Wholock forever!

He takes a seven-percent solution and, bam. Hulk

He takes cocaine?

Watson punches him when he 'returns from the dead', and he doesn't even flinch

That's like a tongue twister! Pipe problem pipe problem pipe problem pipe problem pipe problem pipe problem pipe problem actually that's pretty easy

You mean how many pipes you smoke until there's a problem? One

They're a fan of Sherlock Holmes and those guys are cray-zhee

A money forger had his printing press under the floorboards. Someone who knows that wants to get it

My clothes are immaculately clean, I'll have you know. I resent the implication that I could have even one stain!

I'm sorry; I spilled your drink when I spilled my drink. I'm really high

Someone was killed twice

He's dying, and that's what people do. Ramble about oysters when they die

He's high

Scientists are investigating this question even as we speak

Yes, only Lestrade can stand working with him. They've got a sweet hate-love relationship thing going

No. There's also Batman. (Baaaatman)

No, there's also Hopkins

Neither. It's French. Don't butcher it with your English tongues

I still don't know what his first name is. Graeme? Gavin? Geranium?

There is no Mrs. Turner. Next you'll be saying John's name is James

The woman who lives downstairs (I hear she's got gay one)

221B blew up in the Blitz. (That's what he says, anyone, but he probably destroyed it with an experiment.)

He and Watson got married. (Finally!)

"By the circumference of your head, dear fellow, you are certainly a homosexual. Want to go halves on this quaint little flat I know? Away from the world..."

"It is a truth universally acknowledge that a retired army surgeon must be in want of an insane flatmate to have adventures with that will be remembered for all of time itself. Smoke?"

"Well, well, well. Look what the cat dragged in."