| 1. | Sherlock Holmes meets Rose and finds on the inside of Rose's left shoe, just where the firelight strikes it, the leather is scored by six almost parallel cuts. What would Sherlock Holmes deduce? |
| a. | | The shoe is stolen |
| b. | | Rose had been out in bad, rainy weather, and her shoe was attended to by someone who carelessly scraped round the edges of the sole in order to remove crusted mud from it. |
| c. | | The shoe is brand new |
| d. | | The shoe is one size smaller for Rose
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| 2. | Sherlock Holmes observes a person entering a room. The person smells of iodoform, has a black mark of nitrate of silver upon his right forefinger, and a bulge on the right side of his top-hat to show where he has secreted his stethoscope. Sherlock Holmes would deduce the person is a: |
| a. | | Lawyer |
| b. | | Doctor |
| c. | | Scout |
| d. | | Teacher
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| 3. | Sherlock Holmes observes a lady sitting on the sofa:
The lady sits for half a minute with a vacant expression. Her eyes fixed themselves upon her newly framed picture of General Gordon, and her expressions alter. But her thoughts do not lead very far. Her eyes then turn across to the unframed portrait of Henry Ward Beecher, which stood upon the top of her books. She then glanced up at the wall, and thought of something , the meaning of which was obvious to Sherlock Holmes. What did Sherlock Holmes conclude? |
| a. | | The lady was felling sleepy |
| b. | | The lady was thinking that if the portrait was framed, it would just cover the bare space and correspond with Gordon's picture. |
| c. | | The lady disliked Gordon's picture and wanted to replace it with Sherlock Holmes' portrait. |
| d. | | The lady was in love with Sherlock Holmes, and wanted to hang a picture of Sherlock Holmes next to Gordon's picture
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| 4. | Sherlock Holmes observes a young clean shaven man. His shave is perfect on th left side, but not so perfect on the right side of the face, especially around the angle of the jaw.
What will Sherlock Holmes Deduce? |
| a. | | The boy is learning to shave properly. |
| b. | | The boy uses inferior quality shaving blades. |
| c. | | The window or the light bulb in the boy's room is on the left side. |
| d. | | The boy shaved in a hurry.
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| 5. | The medical examination of a dead body suggests that the posterior part of the victims parietal bone and the occipital bone seem to have been hit by a blunt object. What would Sherlock Holmes deduce? |
| a. | | The victim was hit from front |
| b. | | The victim was hit from behind |
| c. | | The victim was hit from right side |
| d. | | The victim was shot in the head with a gun
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| 6. | Upon which one of the subjects below did Sherlock Holmes write a monologue/book about (other than distinguishing between cigars and cigar ashes)
(The answer can be found in the novel "A Study in Scarlet", towards the middle of Chapter 2) |
| a. | | firearms |
| b. | | The Book of Life |
| c. | | The Book of Eli |
| d. | | opium and cocaine
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What others think about Sherlock Holmes |
| By: Tin on Jan 9, 2010 |
| | Did you know that Sherlock Holmes was supposed to be Sherrinford Holmes? |
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| By: Figment on Jan 2, 2010 |
| | The 2009 Sherlock Holmes movie is great. |
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| By: cameron on Jan 1, 2010 |
| | in the actual books, sherlock holmes never actualy says "elementary my dear watson". |
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| By: Bart on Dec 27, 2009 |
| | See Sherlock Holmes movie 2009 |
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| By: oscar on Nov 13, 2009 |
| | he was named after a critket player whose name was also sherlock |
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| By: angie on Nov 4, 2009 |
| | i wanted to be like him someday... |
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