Dogs appear in all of the following cases but in which one did the famous ‘curious incident of the dog in the night-time’ occur?
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
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The Sign of Four
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The Adventure of Silver Blaze
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The Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place
Q.2.
Which of the following famous remarks by Sherlock Holmes in Arthur Conan Doyle’s writings?
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My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people don’t know
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I am the last and highest court of appeal in detection
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Elementary, my dear Watson!
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Data! Data! Data! I can’t make bricks without clay
Q.3.
Who was Sherlock Holmes' infamous archenemy, the one he called ‘the Napoleon of Crime’?
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Professor James Moriarty
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Police Inspector Lestrade
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Blackmailer Charles Augustus Milverton
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Confidence trickster Henry “Holy” Peter
Q.4.
In 1891, in ‘The Final Problem’, Sherlock Holmes sent ‘the Napoleon of Crime’ tumbling to his death in the boiling waters of the Reichenbach Falls. Holmes later claimed his resort to ‘Baritsu’ was the deciding factor in defeating his deadly foe. What was ‘baritsu’?
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The same as ‘bartitsu’, a mix of martial arts and self-defence methods
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A hypnotic glare of the eyes Holmes had picked up from his escapades in London’s China Town
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A particular use of a lasso developed on the Argentine pampas to confound an attacking bull
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A trick feigning unconsciousness until the moment is ripe to send an attacker flying
Q.5.
Holmes’s elder brother Mycroft was a founder of a London club, ‘The Diogenes’. What was the strict rule which meant either membership refusal or subsequent loss of membership if broken?
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Being discovered to be either of Prussian or Scottish descent, that is to say, tracing descent from a Prussian or Scottish father or mother, grandfather or grandmother
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No member is permitted to take the least notice of any other one
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No person be considered eligible who shall not have travelled out of the British islands to a distance of at least 500 miles in a direct line
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Under no circumstances would any member campaign for women’s right to vote
Q.6.
In ‘The Adventure of the Speckled Band’, what does the evil Dr. Grimesby Roylott use to lure the ‘swamp adder’ (‘the deadliest snake in India’) back through the vent?
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A ready supple of live laboratory rats, mice, frogs, toads, earthworms and slugs
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A Capstan sea-shanty familiar to crews of Asia-bound square-rigged ships
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A saucer of milk
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The throbbing beat of the North India Pakhawaj drum
Q.7.
Which magazine turned Watson’s chronicles into rip-roaring best-sellers?
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Punch Magazine
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British Medical Journal
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National Geographic
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The Strand
Q.8.
Holmes is an expert in hand-to-hand combat but also in weaponry. Of the following, which weapon does Holmes employ?
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Cane
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Poison blow-darts
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Sword
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Pistols
Q.9.
Conan Doyle wrote several ‘locked room’ mysteries where it seems impossible for the killer to have entered the room or left without being seen. Which one of the following four Sherlock Holmes is a locked room mystery?
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The Adventure Of The Speckled Band
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The Valley of Fear
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The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge
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The Sign of the Four
Q.10.
Originally Sherlock Holmes’s faithful chronicler Dr. John H. Watson planned to make a life-time career as a surgeon doctor in the British Army. Why then, in 1881, following a stint in Afghanistan, did he return to England?
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His fiancée Mary Morstan refused to marry him unless he returned to civilian life
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He received a telegram from Sherlock Holmes inviting him to become his chronicler
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He was offered a lucrative medical practice in Paddington at a very favourable price
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He got badly wounded by a jezail bullet at the Battle of Maiwand
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