The Sherlock Holmes Quiz Book
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QUIZ 42
1. B.
He is not considering investing in South African securities.
2. C.
The family had owned the estate for five centuries.
3. C.
Mrs. Cubitt insisted that Mr. Cubitt never ask about her past.
4. A.
Mrs. Cubitt fainted.
5. C.
She suggested that she and her husband take a trip and get away for a while.
6. A.
On the sundial in the garden
7. A.
Mr. and Mrs. Cubitt have both been shot. Mr. Cubitt is dead, and his wife is in serious condition.
8. B.
A third shot had been fired.
9. A.
Using the code of the dancing men, Holmes writes him a letter and asks him to come for a visit.
10. B.
Elsie’s father, Mr. Patrick
QUIZ 43
1. Miss Smith visits Holmes on April 13, 1895.
2. Holmes knows that Miss Smith is a musician because of her spatulate finger ends.
3. Mr. Carruthers claimed that he was a friend of Miss Smith’s late uncle and, upon hearing that Miss Smith was in grave financial need, Mr. Carruthers hired her as a music teacher for his ten-year-old daughter.
4. The cyclist does not allow her to get close enough to see him.
5. Mr. Woodley made inappropriate advances toward Miss Smith.
6. Holmes sends Watson to investigate the situation and report back.
7. Mr. Woodley started sneaking around Mr. Carruthers’s house, concealing himself in the shrubbery.
8. Watson notices that Holmes grabs his revolver on his way to assist Miss Smith.
9. Carruthers and Woodley played cards for the right to court Miss Smith and subsequently marry her. Woodley won the card game.
10. Williamson, a defrocked clergyman
QUIZ 44
1. False—Holmes learns that the boy was abducted when he receives a frantic visit from Dr. Huxtable, the founder and principal of the Priory preparatory school.
2. False—The Duke offers 5,000 pounds to anyone who can tell him where his son is, and 1,000 pounds for the name of the man or men who abducted the boy.
3. True
4. True
5. False—The Duke believes that his son ran away to be with his mother.
6. False—The boy’s cap is found in the van belonging to a group of gypsies.
7. True
8. True
9. False–The owner of the inn, Reuben Hayes, was arrested.
10. False—The Duke refuses to prosecute because the man is his illegitimate son.
QUIZ 45
1. B.
Inspector Hopkins
2. C.
Stabbing a pig’s carcass with a harpoon
3. A.
Black Peter spent his nights in a small hut decorated like a ship.
4. D.
Sea Unicorn
5. C.
There is a bottle of rum and two glasses on the table.
6. A.
Neligan is searching for a logbook.
7. B.
Neligan is not physically strong enough to stab Black Peter in the manner in which he was killed.
8. A.
The man intended to blackmail Black Peter.
9. B.
Black Peter seldom smoked, and there was not a pipe in his hut.
10. A.
They leave for Norway.
QUIZ 46
1. Lady Blackwell wants Holmes to negotiate with her blackmailer.
2. Holmes disguises himself as a plumber and courts Milverton’s housemaid.
3. Milverton plans to send Lady Blackwell’s love letters, written to a previous lover, to her fiancé, the Earl of Dovercourt.
4. He plans to break into Milverton’s safe and steal the damaging letters.
5. Milverton retires at 10:30.
6. Milverton has made an appointment to purchase letters that he will use in another blackmail attempt.
7. Holmes and Watson were behind the window curtain in Milverton’s study.
8. Holmes burns all the letters that Milverton planned to use in future blackmailings.
9. He remembers seeing her picture in a shop window displaying photographs of celebrities. He and Watson return to the shop to view the photograph and confirm her identity.
10. Lestrade notices two sets of footprints (those made by Holmes and Watson).
QUIZ 47
1. False—Morse Hudson’s bust of Napoleon is smashed.
2. True
3. True
4. False—This robbery is more serious because a man is murdered.
5. True
6. False—Holmes is one step closer to solving the case because of the photograph found in the dead man’s pocket.
7. True
8. True
9. False—Holmes smashes the sixth bust of Napoleon.
10. False—Holmes solves the crime because of a link with a previous case.
QUIZ 48
1. B.
Greek translations
2. A.
Mr. Soames’s servant, Bannister, left the key in the door when he carried out the tea service.
3. D.
The papers on his desk were rearranged.
4. B.
When Bannister describes how he almost fainted, Holmes discovers that the butler crossed the room and sat down in a chair positioned in an inconvenient location.
5. A.
Clumps of black clay
6. C.
Ten years
7. A.
Holmes requests the height of each suspect.
8. A.
Bannister recognized the student’s gloves left in the chair.
9. C.
Bannister had been the loyal butler of the student’s father and felt obliged to look after the son while at school.
10. D.
He joins the Rhodesian Police and leaves for Africa.
QUIZ 49
1. Inspector Hopkins cannot discover a motive for the murder.
2. Mr. Smith was Professor Coram’s personal secretary.
3. Susan Tarlton, the maid, discovered Mr. Smith in the library.
4. He was stabbed in the carotid artery with a sealing-wax knife.
5. “The professor, it was she.”
6. A golden pince-nez
7. Holmes had smoked several cigarettes in front of the bookcase and noticed later that the ashes had been disturbed, indicating that the case had swung open since the last time he was in the room.
8. The professor’s consumption of food increased.
9. The murderer lost a pincenez and could not see well enough to escape.
10. Anna commits suicide by drinking poison.
QUIZ 50
1. False—Staunton received a visit from a man of fifty with a grizzled, pale face.
2. True
3. False—Lord Mount-James is angry when he finds out that a detective has been hired and declares that he will not foot the bill.
4. False—Holmes tells the clerk at the telegraph office that he had sent a message the day before and did not include his name.
5. True
6. True
7. False—Pompey tracks Dr. Armstrong because Holmes uses a syringe to squirt aniseed over the hind wheel of the carriage. This scent is a bloodhound’s favorite.
8. True
9. False—Godfrey Staunton feared that he would be disinherited if his uncle found out that he had married his landlady’s daughter.
10. False—Cambridge lost the rugby match to Oxford.
QUIZ 51
1. B.
He was struck on the head with a poker.
2. A.
Lady Brackenstall’s maid
3. C.
An elderly man could not have struck such a violent blow.
4. D.
The pocket screw is short and had to be inserted three times in
order to remove the cork. A household corkscrew is long and only one insertion is necessary.
5. A.
The Randall gang which is operating in the area
6. A.
The knots on the cord that is used to tie up Lady Brackenstall are commonly used by sailors.
7. D.
Sir Eustace physically abused Lady Brackenstall.
8. B.
Lady Brackenstall says that Sir Eustace was struck after she sat down in the chair. If that were true, there would not be blood stains on the chair.
9. C.
Lady Brackenstall enjoyed Crocker’s comradeship and company, but she was not in love with him.
10. D.
Holmes and Watson set up a mock trial, in which Holmes acts as judge and Watson as jury. The man is found not guilty.
QUIZ 52
1. Trelawney Hope discovers that the letter is missing at 8:00 A. M.
2. The box was left unguarded for four hours, between 7:30 P.M. and 11:30 P.M.
3. Lady Trelawney Hope, the secretary’s wife
4. The prime minister
5. If the letter were in the hands of a hostile government, there would have been news of a political uprising.
6. Lucas lived only a short distance from the Hope residence.
7. The blood stain on the rug was not directly over the stain on the floor underneath, leading Holmes to believe that someone had moved the rug. This action had to have occurred while the constable was on duty.
8. Lucas had a love letter that Lady Hilda had written to a man before she married Trelawney Hope.
9. Lady Hilda has a duplicate key to the dispatch box.
10. A madwoman rushing into the house wielding a knife
MAKING THE GRADE
Level Total Correct Answers
Deductive Genius 61–80
Holmes’ Apprentice 41–60
Watson’s Apprentice 21–40
Moriarty’s Victim 0–20
QUIZ 53
1. Holmes asks Watson how he would define “grotesque.”
2. The police find a letter from Scott Eccles in García’s pocket, stating that Scott Eccles planned to visit García on the night he was killed.
3. Scott Eccles spoke to no one after 1:00 A. M.
4. García and his household staff had disappeared.
5. Inspector Baynes
6. Voodoo
7. Holmes thinks that it is unusual that García would invite Scott Eccles to spend a few days at his lodge, having met him only two days prior.
8. Miss Burnet, Mr. Henderson’s governess, sent the message.
9. Mr. García needed an alibi because he had planned to kill Mr. Henderson.
10. John Warner, a gardener whom Henderson fired, gives Holmes the information he needs to solve the mystery.
QUIZ 54
1. False—She received the package through the mail.
2. False—Miss Cushing put them in the outhouse.
3. False—The string is covered with tar and tied with a sailor’s knot.
4. False—Inspector Lestrade suspects that it was a practical joke performed by medical students while dissecting a corpse.
5. True
6. True
7. False—She had fallen in love with him, and he spurned her.
8. True
9. False—Sarah went down with “brain symptoms of great severity.”
10. True
QUIZ 55
1. B.
Five pounds a week for a fortnight
2. C.
By printing one word on a piece of paper, the lodger communicated what was needed.
3. A.
The method of communicating with Mrs. Warren leads Holmes to this conclusion.
4. B.
Daily Gazette
5. A.
Holmes hides behind a door and watches in a mirror as the lodger retrieves a tray left by Mrs. Warren.
6. D.
Italian
7. B.
The Long Island cave mystery
8. A.
Mrs. Lucca is overjoyed.
9. A.
Brooklyn
10. D.
Gorgiano grabbed Emilia and tried to make love to her.
QUIZ 56
1. His brother Mycroft
2. Arthur Cadogan West’s body is found on the train track outside of Aldgate Station on the Underground system.
3. There is no train ticket found in his pocket.
4. Cadogan West was going to the theatre, as there were two tickets in his pocket to a performance at Woolwich Theatre.
5. There was no sign of blood on the tracks; therefore, the body must have been moved.
6. Found on Cadogan West’s body are the British government’s secret plans to build a submarine.
7. Sir James has died that morning.
8. His fiancée, Miss Violet Westbury
9. A list of suspects from Mycroft
10. The Underground trains stop a mere four feet away from the back stairs window of Oberstein’s residence.
QUIZ 57
1. True
2. False—Holmes discourages Watson’s medical treatment because Holmes says that Watson is only a general practitioner with limited experience and mediocre qualifications.
3. False—Watson suggests that Holmes consult Dr. Ainstree, an authority on tropical diseases.
4. True
5. False—Smith holds Holmes responsible for the death of Smith’s nephew.
6. True
7. True
8. False—Holmes instructs Watson to hide behind the bed.
9. True
10. False—The gas lamp is turned up, and the room is illuminated; this is Inspector Morton’s signal.
QUIZ 58
1. C.
Watson’s boots have been fastened with an elaborate double bow, and since they are fairly new boots, it is unlikely that Watson has been to a shoe repair shop.
2. C.
Lady Frances has written to Miss Dobney every second week for four years, and five weeks have gone by without Miss Dobney receiving a letter.
3. A.
Before Lady Frances disappeared, she paid her maid, Miss Marie Devine, fifty pounds.
4. D.
Holmes wants a description of Dr. Shlessinger’s left ear.
5. B.
Marie says that it is a wedding gift.
6. A.
Holmes is disguised as a French ouvrier from a cabaret. He is wearing a blue blouse.
7. B.
The undertaker’s wife
8. C.
He paid her hotel bill and ticket to London, after which she fled before repaying him. She left her jewelry, and he pawned it as reimbursement.
9. B.
The Shlessingers rescued her from a workhouse infirmary.
10. A.
Holmes realizes that the coffin is unusually large, especially since Rose was a small, frail woman.
QUIZ 59
1. Three residents are stricken by a strange malady which killed Brenda Tregennis and left her two brothers insane.
2. They quarreled over the sale of the family’s tin-mining company.
3. Dr. Leon Sterndale, the great lion hunter and explorer
4. Mortimer Tregennis is found dead in his room, apparently of the same malady that killed his family.
5. Ashes from the chimney
6. He wants to leave some for the police to discover.
7. Something was burned in each room, the rooms were stuffy, and the nature of the deaths and madness that afflicted the victims was unusual.
8. It is called Devil’s-foot root, and it comes from west Africa.
9. Dr. Sterndale was already married and was not able to get a divorce.
10. Dr. Sterndale asks Holmes whom Holmes suspects killed Brenda Tregennis.
QUIZ 60
1. False—Motor-car parts are used as code names.
2. True
3. False—The title is Practical H
andbook of Bee Culture
4. False—They drink a bottle of Imperial Tokay.
5. True
6. True
7. True
8. False—Altamont is traveling in a Ford.
9. False—Holmes uses chloroform.
10. True
MAKING THE GRADE
Level Total Correct Answers
Deductive Genius 98–130
Holmes’ Apprentice 66–97
Watson’s Apprentice 33–65
Moriarty’s Victim 0–32
QUIZ 61
1. Sir James is acting as an intermediary for a client who wishes to go unnamed.
2. Violet de Merville and Baron Gruner meet on a Mediterranean yachting voyage.
3. Baron Gruner has written a book on the topic of Chinese pottery.
4. Shinwell Johnson, who had once been a criminal, but had changed his ways and began working for Holmes
5. Baron Gruner has a very shady reputation, including the fact that many believe he murdered his first wife.
6. Miss Kitty Winter, ex-mistress to the baron
7. The baron keeps a brown leatherbound book listing all the people he has ruined. The book includes photos and details of each case.
8. She throws vitriol on his face.
9. Baron Gruner claims that he has hypnotized her.
10. Holmes tells Watson to spread the word that Holmes’s injuries are life-threatening.
QUIZ 62
1. True
2. False—Colonel Emsworth told Dodd that Godfrey was on a voyage around the world.
3. False—Ralph’s response was “I wish to God he was!”
4. True
5. False—The colonel asked his guest to leave because Dodd was found sneaking around and peering into a small cottage in back of Tuxbury Old Hall.
6. False—Holmes writes one word on a slip of paper, and the colonel immediately tells the truth.
7. True
8. False—The skin on Godfrey’s forehead appeared blanched.
9. True
10. True