Sherlock Holmes: The Ultimate Detective Quiz

Answer: In a Persian slipper

Yes, Holmes keep his tobacco here! Watson comments on it in the "Adventure of the Musgrave Ritual". According to him, it's one of Holmes' oddest habits.

Answer: How to identify the type of tobacco by its ashes

Holmes managed to find what type of cigar the killer was smoking, but the clue was not of major importance. However, Holmes demonstrated his superb skills and abilities here.

Answer: A clergyman

Holmes sets an entire plot to fool Adler in order to find where she hides the photograph of the Bohemian Duke, that she uses to blackmail him. He tries to "protect" the lady from a "band of robbers" who are hired by him, and then he is "wounded" and carried into the house. Subsequently, using a false fire alarm (its origin was an explosive thrown by Watson), he finds what he wants.

Answer: The Adventure of the Gloria Scott

The Gloria Scott was a ship transporting convicts to Australia. The father of Holmes' sole friend before his meeting with Watson, Victor Trevor, was one of them.

Answer: In the chemistry laboratory of a hospital in London

Holmes was making some experiments here by the time Watson arrives. The detective stuns the doctor with his powers of obervation from the moment of their meeting.

Answer: Three years

Holmes had faked his death at the Reichenbach Falls, the place where he killed his opponent, ex-professor Moriarty, because the latter's most skillful and savage henchman had promised himself to eliminate the great detective.

Answer: Sebastian Moran

According to Holmes, Moran was the second most dangerous man in London, ranked only behind Moriarty himself. The other people are criminals that Holmes faced and defeated but there is no connection between them and the Professor's gang.

Answer: Conversations are strictly forbidden, except in the Stranger's Room.

According to Sherlock, the Diogenes Club "is the oddest club in London, and his brother one of the oddest men". Mycroft is an agent for the British government and some say that the Diogenes Club is a basement for his undercover operation.

Answer: Wiggins

Wiggins has the privilege of reporting to Holmes directly. Simpson and Billy are merely members of the band, while Johnson is an ex-convict turned informant.

Answer: Two

In "The Blanched Soldier" and "The Lion's Mane" Holmes describes the cases. Two stories, "The Mazarin Stone" and "His Last Bow" are written in the third person.

Answer: That it was the doctor's sole chauvinistic action and he could not congratulate him.

In two stories, "Th Blanched Soldier" and "The Sign of the Four", those comments are made by the detective. In the story, "A Scandal in Bohemia", Holmes claims that marriage fits his friend and chronologist.

Answer: Hugo Oberstein

Oberstein is finally arrested and spends 15 years in a British prison. La Rotier is only mentioned, but has no involvement. Lucas was a spy murdered in "The Second Stain" by his jealous paramour. Harrison is a traitor who steals the text of a naval treaty in the same-titled story.

Answer: Lord Bellinger

Lord Bellinger is perhaps a depiction of Lord Salisbury, Queen Victoria's favoured politician. The Duke of Holdernesse is involved in "The Adventure of the Priory School". Lord Holdhurst is Percy Phelps' uncle in "The Naval Treaty". Sir Eustace is the victim in "The Adventure of the Abbey Grange".

Answer: The Five Orange Pips

Holmes'client, John Openshaw, is murdered by members of the deadly cult. Although the great detective sets a perfect trap, it is finally found that the Klansmen were drowned when their ship sank in the middle of a storm. Thus, some details of the case are still unknown.

Answer: Copying the Encyclopaedia Britannica

The League was a trick by the thief and murderer John Clay in order to keep Wilson out of his house, thus enabling him to dig a tunnel connecting the pawn shop with a nearby bank. Clay's objective is clearly the French gold kept there and Holmes in the only one who can stop him.

Answer: A crooked child

Doctor Roylott was nothing but a criminal. He murdered one of his two stepdaughters and tried to kill the second, because of his unwillingness to give them the money they needed to marry. Holmes' encounter with the baboon is a minor incident.

Answer: Baritsu

Baritsu, actually spelled Bartitsu, was invented in 1899. Since the narrative takes place in 1891, it's possible that Ziu Zitsu led Moriary to his death.

Answer: Capital and Counties Bank, Oxford Street

Holmes names his bank when he receives a check of 6,000 pounds from the Duke of Holdernesse as a reward for his handling of the case.

Answer: McMurdo

It's uncertain who was the winner. Neil Gibson is an American tycoon, who appears in "The Problem of the Thor Bridge". Peter Carey is the victim in "The Adventure of the Black Peter" and Jack Croker is the culprit in "The Adventure of the Abbey Grange".

Answer: The Borgia Black Pearl

Beppo and another Italian crook, Pietro Venucci, stole the pearl from the hotel room of its owner, helped by Venucci's sister. Then Beppo takes the pearl for himself and hides it in a Napoleon bust. Subsequently, he is imprisoned for one year because he stabbed another man in a street fight. Desperate, he starts breaking the busts trying to find it. Unfortunately for him, Holmes is involved.

Answer: The Naval Treaty

When Holmes returns the treaty to Percy Phelps, he hides it under a tray. Trying to persuade Phelps to open it, he says that Mrs Hudson is a very good cook, despite her Scottish origin.

Answer: The Greek Interpreter

Mycroft appears or is mentioned in all of the stories above. He is 7 years older than Sherlock and acts on behalf of the British government. According to the detective, he is one of the oddest men in the English capital city.

Answer: You have been in Afghanistan, I perceive.

With this display of his superb observation and deduction skills, Holmes stuns and intrigues his new friend into discovering how he earns a living.

Answer: The Devil's Foot Root

The case involves two related murders, committed by two different people. The first killer murders his sister and drives his brothers into madness for financial motives. The second murderer kills the first for revenge, because he was in love with the latter's sister and victim. Both murders are committed with the assistance of the Devil's Foot Root, a toxic plant which can damage a man's mental health.

Answer: 17

After Watson's failure to answer the question properly, Holmes makes the remark: "You see but not observe". The incident happens in the story "A Scandal in Bohemia", just before the visit of the Bohemian King.