Sherlock Holmes Quiz
Questions: 16 · 10 minutes
1. In The Five Orange Pips, the threatening letters are connected to which organization?
The Carbonari
The Red-Headed League
The Molly Maguires
The Ku Klux Klan
2. At which location do Holmes and Moriarty confront each other in The Final Problem?
Dartmoor
The Reichenbach Falls
The Giant’s Causeway
The Tower of London
3. In The Adventure of the Speckled Band, which two room features most strongly suggest a route leading directly to the bed?
A locked shutter and a bolted door
A ventilator and a dummy bell rope
A fireplace and a floor grating
A skylight and a hanging curtain
4. At their first meeting, what does Holmes immediately deduce about Watson?
He has recently inherited a medical practice
He has been in Afghanistan
He served aboard a naval vessel
He studied chemistry in Germany
5. Why is Jabez Wilson recruited into the Red-Headed League?
To persuade him to sell his pawnshop cheaply
To obtain samples of his handwriting for a forgery
To make him unknowingly deliver coded messages
To keep him away while criminals tunnel toward a bank
6. Where do Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson first meet in A Study in Scarlet?
The reading room at the British Museum
The chemical laboratory at St Bartholomew’s Hospital
A sitting room at Scotland Yard
The dining room of the Criterion Bar
7. In A Study in Scarlet, the word “RACHE” is written at the crime scene. Which interpretation does Holmes recognize?
It is a railway station abbreviation
It is an unfinished attempt to write “Rachel”
It is the German word for “revenge”
It is the victim’s secret surname
8. What is Professor James Moriarty’s academic specialty?
Classical history
Experimental chemistry
Mathematics
Comparative anatomy
9. In The Adventure of the Empty House, what weapon does Colonel Sebastian Moran use in his attempt to kill Holmes?
A poisoned walking stick
A concealed revolver
A spring-loaded knife
A specially constructed air gun
10. In A Scandal in Bohemia, how does Holmes prompt Irene Adler to reveal the photograph’s hiding place?
He sends her a forged letter from the king
He pretends the photograph has already been stolen
He disguises Watson as a household servant
He stages a fire alarm and watches where she looks
11. In The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle, where is the stolen jewel discovered?
In the crop of a goose
Inside a battered hat
Beneath a hotel fireplace
In a Christmas pudding
12. Which address is most famously shared by Holmes and Watson?
221B Baker Street
23 Montague Street
10 Downing Street
7 Savile Row
13. What creates the Hound of the Baskervilles’ terrifying supernatural appearance?
Phosphorus applied to the hound
A mask fitted with reflective glass
A lantern attached beneath its collar
Smoke released from a hidden canister
14. In The Adventure of the Dancing Men, what feature helps Holmes identify where individual words end in the coded messages?
Pairs of figures are separated by circles
Every word begins with a kneeling figure
Some dancing figures carry small flags
Each message changes the direction the figures face
15. In Silver Blaze, why is the watchdog’s silence during the horse’s disappearance significant?
It suggests the dog knew the nighttime visitor
It shows the horse never left the stable
It proves the dog had been drugged
It reveals the dog followed the horse away
16. In The Naval Treaty, where had the stolen document remained concealed before the culprit returned for it?
Inside a locked dispatch box at the Foreign Office
Behind a bookcase in the library
Beneath a loose floorboard in Percy Phelps’s room
Under a stone beside the garden path