Q 01/05

In A Study in Scarlet, Lestrade takes the bloody word RACHE for an unfinished name; what does Holmes say it means?

A) Justice

B) Guilt

C) Revenge

D) Murder

Answer · why

C) Revenge

Revenge is the German meaning, and Holmes tells Lestrade not to waste time looking for a Miss Rachel. The killer wrote it only to send the police chas...

Q 02/05

In A Study in Scarlet, Dr Watson has just been invalided home from which war when he meets Sherlock Holmes?

A) Second Anglo-Afghan War

B) Third Anglo-Ashanti War

C) First Anglo-Boer War

D) Anglo-Zulu War

Answer · why

A) Second Anglo-Afghan War

The Second Anglo-Afghan War left Watson wounded, feverish and alone in London on an army allowance of eleven shillings and sixpence a day. That thin b...

Q 03/05

In A Study in Scarlet, which job title does Sherlock Holmes give himself, claiming to be the only one in the world?

A) Private inquiry agent

B) Scientific investigator

C) Criminal analyst

D) Consulting detective

Answer · why

D) Consulting detective

Consulting detective is the trade Holmes invented for himself. When official and private investigators are stuck, they lay the evidence before him and...

Q 04/05

In A Study in Scarlet, Watson is astonished that Holmes neither knows nor cares about which basic scientific fact?

A) Blood circulates

B) Earth orbits the Sun

C) The Moon causes tides

D) Lightning is electricity

Answer · why

B) Earth orbits the Sun

Earth orbits the Sun, Watson explains, and Holmes replies that he will now do his best to forget it. He argues that useless facts only crowd out the k...

Q 05/05

In A Study in Scarlet, what job does Jefferson Hope take in London so he can follow his two enemies unnoticed?

A) Cab driver

B) Railway porter

C) Hotel waiter

D) Street sweeper

Answer · why

A) Cab driver

Cab driver was the ideal cover: Hope, who says driving and riding come as naturally to him as walking, could shadow Drebber and Stangerson across Lond...