QUIZ 63
1. C.
The hundred-thousand-pound burglary
2. B.
The prime minister and the home secretary
3. C.
A dummy of himself, which he positions in the window
4. D.
Holmes is expecting to be murdered.
5. C.
Holmes plays his violin.
6. C.
Five minutes, not much time for the count to react
7. A.
The count plans to tell Holmes that the diamond is in Liverpool.
8. A.
Holmes is sitting in the chair that was previously occupied by the dummy.
9. B.
Holmes playing a recording of a violin on the gramophone
10. D.
Holmes slips the diamond in Lord Cantlemere’s pocket without his knowing it, and then accuses him of stealing it.
QUIZ 64
1. 500 pounds
2. Travel around the world
3. The buyer wants every item inside the home to remain.
4. The burglars chloroform Mrs. Maberley.
5. The last page of her son’s manuscript
6. The writing was so passionate that Maberley changed points of view from “he” to “my.”
7. Holmes visits Langdale Pike, the local gossip columnist.
8. Holmes sends Isadora Klein a note threatening to bring in the police if she refuses to see him.
9. She burns the manuscript.
10. Holmes will not turn her over to the police if she agrees to give Mrs. Maberley 500 pounds to travel around the world first class.
QUIZ 65
1. False—Ferguson and Watson played on opposing rugby teams.
2. True
3. True
4. False—Mrs. Ferguson began acting violently toward her stepson, striking him on two occasions.
5. False—Mr. Ferguson locks his wife in her room.
6. False—Holmes begins to develop his theory when he notices a quiver and a small bird-bow among a display of weapons.
7. True
8. False—Holmes notices Ferguson’s older son’s face in the window and realizes that the son is consumed with “cruel hatred.”
9. True
10. False—Holmes recommends that the boy spend a year at sea.
QUIZ 66
1. D.
Holmes’s refusal of knighthood
2. C.
His entire wardrobe is English.
3. B.
Holmes mentions an old friend who lived in Topeka, and John Garrideb says that he also knows the man. However, Holmes had fabricated the character.
4. A.
In placing the ad, John Garrideb uses the American spellings for three of the words.
5. C.
To interview a man named Howard Garrideb
6. A.
Butterflies, flint instruments, and plaster skulls of ancient man
7. D.
Evans shoots Watson in the thigh.
8. C.
He shot and killed a man over cards.
9. A.
Holmes asks to study his collections.
10. B.
He never recovers from the shock and is placed in a nursing home.
QUIZ 67
1. She is arrested for the murder of Neil Gibson’s wife.
2. Marlow Bates wants to warn Holmes about Mr. Gibson’s malicious nature.
3. Mr. Gibson lies to Holmes about his relationship with Miss Dunbar.
4. She felt responsible for the children, and she believed that she could influence Mr. Gibson to change his evil ways.
5. The murder weapon was found in the bottom of her wardrobe.
6. The note is very short, and there was no need for Mrs. Gibson to have it with her.
7. If Miss Dunbar were guilty, she would not hide the weapon in her room after committing the murder.
8. There is a chip out of the stonework on the lower edge of the parapet.
9. Mrs. Gibson
10. A ball of stout twine
QUIZ 68
1. False—Trevor Bennett, the professor’s assistant, requests Holmes’s assistance.
2. True
3. True
4. False—Mr. Bennett was not allowed to open letters marked with a cross under the stamp.
5. True
6. False—She wakes in the middle of the night and sees her father looking at her through the window, in spite of the room being on the second floor.
7. True
8. False—The professor is attacked by his dog.
9. True
10. False—Holmes plans to write a monograph on how dogs reflect the personality of their masters and the atmosphere of their masters’ homes.
QUIZ 69
1. D.
He had rheumatic fever.
2. A.
Holmes
3. D.
He was a science teacher at an athletic and training school.
4. D.
Holmes finds an open handprint with fingers pointed up toward the incline.
5. A.
His towel is still dry.
6. B.
A handkerchief, a large knife, a folding card-case, and a note from his lover
7. C.
Murdoch lost his girlfriend to McPherson.
8. A.
The dog dies in exactly the same place where McPherson’s body is found.
9. D.
McPherson’s old, dying uncle may have disinherited him if he knew that he was getting married.
10. B.
Holmes remembers a book written by a man who had experienced a similar incident.
QUIZ 70
1. Mrs. Ronder’s landlady, Mrs. Merrilow
2. Mrs. Ronder is dying and wants to tell her story. She is also experiencing nightmares over the incident.
3. Abbas Parva, the name of the village where the tragedy occurred
4. Sahara King
5. Mr. Ronder believed that the lion would not attack the person who fed him.
6. According to the police report, a man was shouting just at the time Mrs. Ronder was attacked, but Mr. Ronder had apparently been attacked first and killed. If that were the case, Mr. Ronder could not have been the one shouting. Holmes was also curious as to why the lion returned to its cage rather than escape.
7. He was too frightened to come to her rescue when the lion attacked.
8. Leonardo designed a club to resemble a lion’s paw. It was made with five steel nails pointed outward and spaced like claws.
9. Holmes fears that Mrs. Ronder is contemplating suicide.
10. A prussic acid bottle, which contained the poison she’d planned to use to commit suicide
QUIZ 71
1. False—Holmes used a low-power microscope.
2. True
3. False—Sir Robert plans to race his prize horse, Prince, but is showing the public Prince’s half brother who is slower, therefore increasing the stakes for the faster horse.
4. False—John Mason believes that his employer has gone mad because his close relationship with his sister has drastically changed, and he gives away his sister’s most beloved spaniel.
5. True
6. True
7. False—Mason finds the remains of the upper section of a charred human femur.
8. False—Holmes and Watson arrive disguised as fishermen.
9. True
10. True
QUIZ 72
1. B.
At the Haymarket Theatre attending a play
2. C.
He is painting the passageway in his house.
3. D.
His wife took seven thousand pounds worth of cash and securities.
4. A.
Playing chess
5. A.
Bolt
6. C.
A private detective hired by the family of Dr. Ray Ernest, the man who disappeared with Amberley’s wife
7. B.
“What did you do with the bodies?”
8. A.
Holmes checked the boxoffice chart at the theatre and discovered that Amberley did not attend the play.
9. D.
The strong smell of paint
10. C.
He attempts suicide by swallowing a poison pill.
MAKING THE GRADE
Level Total Correct Answers
Deductive Genius 91–120
Holmes’ Apprentice 61–90
Watson’s Apprentice 31–60
Moriarty’s Victim 0–30
QUIZ 73
1. 2. Eille Norwood starred in forty-seven Sherlock Holmes films between 1921 and 1923.
Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes and Nigel Bruce as Dr. Watson
3. John Barrymore
4. The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, produced by United Artists
5. Sherlock Holmes Baffled
6. All three roles were played by Christopher Lee.
7. The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes’ Smarter Brother
8. Michael Caine played Sherlock Holmes, and Ben Kingsley played Dr. Watson.
9. The Hound of the Baskervilles
10. Peter Cushing
QUIZ 74
1. William Gillette
2. Orson Welles
3. Basil Rathbone as Holmes and Nigel Bruce as Dr. Watson
4. “The Sussex Vampire”
5. “The Baconian Cipher”
6. Sir Cedric Hardwicke and Sir John Gielgud, respectively
7. Edith Metier
8. Tom Conway
9. Carleton Hobbs
10. E. G. Marshall
QUIZ 75
1. Under the Clock
2. Harry H. Corbett
3. William Gillette and Basil Rathbone, respectively
4. John Dickson Carr
5. The Mask of Moriarty
6. The Marvelous Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes: A Musical Mystery for Children
7. Frank Langella
8. Eille Norwood
9. Leonard Nimoy
10. The Holmeses of Baker Street
QUIZ 76
1. “The Three Garridebs”
2. John Cleese
3. Peter Cushing
4. Wishbone
5. Edward Hardwicke, son of Sir Cedric Hardwicke, who played in the 1945 British radio broadcast
6. Christopher Lee
7. Christopher Plummer
8. Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century
9. Roger Moore
10. The Return of Sherlock Holmes
QUIZ 77
1. “The Field Bazaar”
2. Laurie King
3. Sherlock Holmes Through Time and Space
4. Mark Twain
5. The Adventures of Sherlaw Kombs
6. Doctor Jekyl and Mr. Holmes
7. The Adventures of Picklock Holes
8. The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes
9. The Return of Herlock Sholmes
10. Ten Years Beyond Baker Street
MAKING THE GRADE
Level Total Correct Answers
Deductive Genius 41–50
Holmes’ Apprentice 27–40
Watson’s Apprentice 14–26
Moriarty’s Victim 0–13
QUIZ 78
1. He is testing a way to silence gunfire.
2. He plans every detail in his mind before executing it.
3. Administered an anesthetic he was testing
4. She throws a glass of wine in his face and leaves.
5. Watson has developed a gambling problem.
6. He supposedly rises from the dead.
7. She wants Holmes to find a missing dwarf named Luke Reordan.
8. They are blamed for releasing a half-finished boat from its mooring, causing it to sink.
9. She drugs his wine.
10. He was testing his theory on how Lord Blackwell survived the hanging.
QUIZ 79
1. “The Man with the Twisted Lip”
2. “The Adventure of the Copper Beeches”
3. The Sign of Four
4. “The Adventure of the Copper Beeches”
5. “A Scandal in Bohemia”
6. The Hound of the Baskervilles
7. “The Adventure of the Abbey Grange”
QUIZ 80
1. False—Professor James Moriarty supposedly poisoned her for betraying him.
2. True
3. False—Mycroft rescues her.
4. True
5. False—Moriarty’s target will be Dr. Watson.
6. False—She is a gypsy fortune teller.
7. True
8. False—It is Mary Watson.
9. False—It turns out to be Colonel Sebastian Moran.
10. False—Holmes delivers an oxygen breathing apparatus that he took an interest in earlier in the case.
QUIZ 81
1. “The Adventure of the Creeping Man”
2. “The Final Problem,” and “The Adventure of the Empty House”
3. The Sign of Four
4. “The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone”
5. “The Greek Interpreter”
QUIZ 82
1. “Nothing happens to me.”
2. The Science of Deduction
3. It’s the kindest word for stupidity.
4. Mrs. Hudson’s husband operated a drug cartel in Florida.
5. How do you feel about violins?
6. “You’re not haunted by war, you miss it.”
7. A string of murders made to look like suicides.
8. Moriarty
9. A poison pill
10. He traces the GPS signal from the victim’s phone and follows Sherlock.
QUIZ 83
1. False—He works at a local surgery seeing patients.
2. False—It is the Black Lotus.
3. True
4. True
5. True
6. True
7. False—It is a jade hairpin that Sherlock finds in the banker’s secretary’s hair.
QUIZ 84
1. Firing holes into the wall with his pistol
2. Five orange pips, one representing each puzzle
3. “The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans”
4. His homeless network
5. “Staying Alive”
QUIZ 85
1. Mycroft summons Sherlock to Buckingham Palace to thwart a possible scandal involving intimate photos taken of a royal princess and Adler.
2. He is wrapped only in a sheet because he refuses to get dressed.
3. “How would you know?”
4. As a dominatrix.
5. She is wearing her battle dress, a pair of Christian Louboutin heels, and nothing else.
6. She seduces him, then changes his ringtone to a recording of her suggestive sigh.
7. She sends the information to Moriarty.
QUIZ 86
1. Knight believes the nearby Baskerville military research station is breeding gigantic mutant hounds.
2. He mentions the word “hound” instead of dog, and pleads for Sherlock to investigate the creature with red eyes and black fur.
3. Sherlock claims to be Mycroft Holmes and uses his security pass.
4. Mycroft sent him to keep an eye on Sherlock.
5. It was a chemical-weapon CIA experiment that was conducted in Liberty, Indiana, and later canceled.
6. A dense fog that causes hallucinations
7. Sherlock admits to using John as a guinea pig to test the chemical-weapon theory.
QUIZ 87
1. “The press will turn, and they will turn on you.”
2. “Get Sherlock.”
3. Moriarty threatened the jury.
4. He arranges a kidnapping, making it appear as if Sherlock committed the crime, then solves it to make himself look a hero.
5. Journalist Kitty Reiley whom Sherlock insulted at the beginning of the episode
6. Molly Hooper
7. The roof of St. Bartholom
ew’s Hospital
QUIZ 88
1. Syria
2. Waiter
3. Operation
4. Thirteen
5. Lazarus
6. Cyclist
7. Guy Fawkes Day (Bonfire Night)
QUIZ 89
1. She believes she’s dating a dead man.
2. They are trying to guess the name of the person written on a note stuck to their foreheads.
3. Sherlock needs help writing his best-man speech for John and Mary’s wedding.
4. John’s former commander is about to be murdered.
5. He notices the military uniform worn by Major Sholto is similar to one worn by another victim.
6. A razor-thin stiletto knife 7. Mary is pregnant.
QUIZ 90
1. False—It was “The Man with the Twisted Lip.”
2. True
3. True
4. False—He’s a media tycoon.
5. False—He’s threatening to make public the love letters her husband wrote to a fifteen-year-old girl more than thirty years ago.
6. False—He’s blackmailing Mary Morstan.
7. False—It was Mary Morstan.
QUIZ 91
1. Moriarty appears to have come back.
2. Mycroft doctors video footage, making it appear as if Magnussen killed himself.
3. Rosamund Mary is her formal name. Rosie is her nickname.
4. A missing item on a table, which he learns is the bust of Margaret Thatcher
5. Mary Watson
6. Morocco
7. Norbury attempts to shoot Sherlock, but Mary jumps in front of him and is shot instead. She dies in John’s arms.
QUIZ 92
1. False—She recorded a video for Sherlock, laying out her plan.
2. False—Molly Hooper is taking care of Rosie.
3. True
4. True
5. False—He takes them to his favorite room, the mortuary.
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