Q 01/05
A) London
B) Edinburgh
C) Dublin
D) Glasgow
Answer · why
Edinburgh honours its native son with a statue not of Doyle but of Sherlock Holmes, in Picardy Place near the house where he was born.
Q 02/05
A) Naval officer
B) Barrister
C) Schoolmaster
D) Physician
Answer · why
Doyle was a physician who took his MD in 1885 with a thesis on tabes dorsalis, a nerve disease caused by untreated syphilis.
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
His baptism entry lists Conan as a given name and Michael Conan as his godfather; he began using Conan 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
His father's growing alcoholism later saw Charles Altamont Doyle committed to asylums, and he died at the Crichton Royal in Dumfries in 1893.
Q 05/05
A) Stonyhurst College
B) Downside School
C) Ushaw College
D) Ampleforth College
Answer · why
Doyle studied at Stonyhurst College from age nine to sixteen, and later said he was not unhappy there but had no fond memories of it.
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