Q 01/05
A) London
B) Edinburgh
C) Dublin
D) Glasgow
Answer · why
A statue of Sherlock Holmes now stands in Picardy Place, close to the house where he was born.
Q 02/05
A) Naval officer
B) Barrister
C) Schoolmaster
D) Physician
Answer · why
He studied medicine at university and later completed an M.D. with a dissertation on tabes dorsalis.
Q 03/05
A) As his mother's maiden name
B) As a given name
C) As part of a compound surname
D) As a confirmation name
Answer · why
'Conan' was a given name after his godfather Michael Conan; he began using it as a sort of surname after school.
Q 04/05
A) His father's growing alcoholism
B) A cholera outbreak
C) His mother's death
D) His father's bankruptcy
Answer · why
Charles Altamont Doyle died in 1893 in the Crichton Royal asylum after years of psychiatric illness.
Q 05/05
A) Stonyhurst College
B) Downside School
C) Ushaw College
D) Ampleforth College
Answer · why
He remembered it as harsh and 'run on medieval principles', then spent a year at Stella Matutina in Austria.
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