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Elementary? Not in the Least! Quiz

A really tough Sherlock Holmes quiz, taken from all short stories and novels. For the serious Sherlockian only!

A multiple-choice quiz by ShLuvJw. Estimated time: 6 mins.

Author
ShLuvJw

Time
6 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
225,223

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Difficult

Avg Score
4 / 10

Plays
1157

Awards
Top 20% Quiz

Last 3 plays: Guest 195 (2/10), L_Clayton (6/10), Guest 161 (3/10).

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Question 1 of 10

1. How many years older was Mycroft Holmes than Sherlock? Hint

8 years

5 years

7 years

6 years

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Question 2 of 10

2. Which one of Holmes' cases involved forgery? Hint

The Adventure of the Red Circle

The Engineer's Thumb

The Adventure of the Three Gables

The Stockbroker's Clerk

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Question 3 of 10

3. Which case is commonly believed to involve a homosexual affair? Hint

The Adventure of the Three Students

The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge

The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor

The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton

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Question 4 of 10

4. Which of these Inns visited by Holmes was also an opium den? Hint

The Alpha Inn

The Green Dragon

The Black Swan

The Bar of Gold

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Question 5 of 10

5. In which case did Holmes NOT allow the killer to go free? Hint

The Cardboard Box

Boscombe Valley Mystery

The Veiled Lodger

The Devil's Foot

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Question 6 of 10

6. Which of these is a librarian friend of Watson? Hint

Lomax

Lowenstein

Lucas

Lynch

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Question 7 of 10

7. What was the name of the bar where Watson met Stamford, who would soon introduce him to Sherlock Holmes? Hint

The White Eagle

Claridge's

Bentley's

The Criterion

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Question 8 of 10

8. There are many 'Jacks' in the various stories and novels. Which of these adventures did NOT involve anyone named Jack? Hint

The Solitary Cyclist

Silver Blaze

The Sussex Vampire

The Gloria Scott

9. Much is made about Holmes' arch-enemy, Professor Moriarty. But we really only hear about him in His Last Bow, the Final Problem and the Valley of Fear. Which of these titles is mentioned by Holmes to have been written by the Professor? Hint

The Polyphonic Motets of Lassus

The Dynamics of an Asteroid

Distinctions of Global Echoes

Substitutions of Polar Bodies

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Question 10 of 10

10. In the "Second Stain," Holmes and Watson are visited by a 'Lord Bellinger' who we are to believe is 'twice premier of Britain.' Despite the fact that Watson deliberately hides the year and even the decade of the case, who amongst these is NOT considered by Sherlockians to be a possibility? Hint

Benjamin Disraeli

Robert Salisbury

William Gladstone

Sir Stafford Northcote

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. How many years older was Mycroft Holmes than Sherlock?

Answer: 7 years

Watson never even knew Sherlock had a brother until "The Greek Interpreter". Holmes would later describe his brother as occasionally being 'the' British government.

2. Which one of Holmes' cases involved forgery?

Answer: The Engineer's Thumb

"The Stockbroker's Clerk" involved theft, the "Red Circle" involved a mysterious person, and the "Three Gables" was about the theft of a manuscript.

3. Which case is commonly believed to involve a homosexual affair?

Answer: The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge

Many (including "The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes" by Leslie Klinger and commentors on the episode during the Jeremy Brett series) postulate that John Scott Eccles had agreed to meet Garcia at Wisteria Lodge in order to have a sexual relationship with him. Some even say that Holmes realized it, but in order to spare his client he kept the information private.

4. Which of these Inns visited by Holmes was also an opium den?

Answer: The Bar of Gold

"The vilest murder-trap on the whole river-side." In "The Man with the Twisted Lip," Neville St. Clair took opium here, and Holmes accidentally met Watson, who had gone to retrieve a friend.

5. In which case did Holmes NOT allow the killer to go free?

Answer: The Cardboard Box

Jim Browner is turned over to the police. Dr. Sterndale, John Turner, and Mrs. Ronder were all murderers as well, but because Holmes had sympathy for them, he says nothing to the 'regulars'.

6. Which of these is a librarian friend of Watson?

Answer: Lomax

He is a librarian of the London Library. In the "Illustrious Client", he helped the good doctor select a volume on Chinese pottery.

7. What was the name of the bar where Watson met Stamford, who would soon introduce him to Sherlock Holmes?

Answer: The Criterion

The White Eagle appears in the "Sign of Four", Bentley's in the "Missing Three-Quarter", and Claridge's in "His Last Bow" and "Thor Bridge".

8. There are many 'Jacks' in the various stories and novels. Which of these adventures did NOT involve anyone named Jack?

Answer: Silver Blaze

Jack Woodley was a villian in the "Solitary Cyclist", Robert Ferguson's lame son Jack, in the "Sussex Vampire" had a hatred of his half-brother, and Jack Prendergast is the leader of the convicts taking over the "Gloria Scott."

Answer: The Dynamics of an Asteroid

The Polyphonic Motets of Lassus was a topic Holmes liked to discuss. The other two I made up, as is probably obvious...

Answer: Sir Stafford Northcote

The others are all possibilites because they all were prime ministers at one point. Northcote is a possibility for Lord Tralawney Hope, though, as he was foreign secretary.

Source: Author ShLuvJw

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