Q 01/05

What does the killer smear on his dog to make it glow like a demon in The Hound of the Baskervilles?

A) Phosphorus

B) Radium paint

C) Burning sulphur

D) Lamp oil

Answer · why

A) Phosphorus

Phosphorus, in a cunning preparation with no smell to spoil the dog's scent, gave it flaming jaws and fire-ringed eyes. Watson's own fingers gleam aft...

Q 02/05

What is stolen twice from Sir Henry Baskerville at his London hotel before he ever sees the moor?

A) A glove

B) A top hat

C) A boot

D) A scarf

Answer · why

C) A boot

A boot goes missing twice: first a new brown one, useless because it had never been worn, then an old black one. The thief needed Sir Henry's scent to...

Q 03/05

Beryl, introduced as a naturalist's sister in The Hound of the Baskervilles, is really what to him?

A) His niece

B) His wife

C) His cousin

D) His ward

Answer · why

B) His wife

His wife is what Beryl turns out to be, bullied into playing the sister so that her husband could dangle her as bait for Sir Henry. She still tries to...

Q 04/05

Sherlock's episode The Hounds of Baskerville swaps the gothic family hall for what kind of place?

A) A private psychiatric clinic

B) A military research base

C) A nuclear power station

D) An abandoned slate quarry

Answer · why

B) A military research base

A military research base, modelled on the real Porton Down, replaces the hall, and a haunted young man named Henry Knight stands in for the heir.

Q 05/05

At which Swiss landmark did Doyle kill off Holmes, eight years before The Hound of the Baskervilles?

A) Rhine Falls

B) The Aletsch Glacier

C) Reichenbach Falls

D) The Matterhorn

Answer · why

C) Reichenbach Falls

Reichenbach Falls was where Holmes and Moriarty went over the edge in 1893. The new novel dodged the problem by being set earlier, and its success pus...