The unassuming name ‘John H. Watson’ was not the one Arthur Conan Doyle originally envisaged. Watson had another name entirely. What was Holmes’s biographer first going to be called?

Dr. Watson’s middle initial is ‘H’. What does the H stand for?

In ‘The Sign Of Four’ Watson reveals he spent some of his boyhood in a town in a faraway country before returning to school in England. Where was that?

How did Watson and Holmes first meet?

Where did this historic encounter between Watson and Holmes take place?

Watson is introduced to Sherlock Homes in ‘A Study In Scarlet’. They shake hands. Holmes asks “How are you?” followed to Watson’s great astonishment with “You have been in Afghanistan, I perceive”. Holmes was correct but why did he make this deduction?

Early on, Watson discovered Holmes’s ignorance ‘was as remarkable as his knowledge’. Watson compiled an assessment of his new friend’s strengths and weaknesses. Of the following, which knowledge of the subject did Watson describe as ‘profound’ (i.e. first-rate)?

In 1881 Holmes invited Watson to join him in an investigation for the very first time. What title did Watson give this case?

In ‘The Valley of Fear’, Holmes slyly compliments Watson on his sense of humour, as follows: “You are developing a certain unexpected vein of _____ humour, Watson, against which I must learn to guard myself.” Which adjective did Holmes use to describe Watson’s particular type of humour?

In ‘The Adventure Of The Empty House’ Watson faints away for the first and last time in his life. Was it because...