10 Fiendishly Difficult Questions about Sherlock Holmes

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zanthal

Lifer
Dec 3, 2011
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Ten Fiendishly Difficult Questions about Sherlock Holmes
1. Who wrote ‘Dynamics of an Asteroid’?
2. What was Victor Hatherley’s profession and which part of his body did he lose?
3. What do the killers in The Speckled Band, The Lion’s Mane and Silver Blaze all have in common?
4. What was Mary Watson’s maiden name?
5. What links The Greek Interpreter, The Final Problem, The Empty House and The Bruce-Partington Plans?
6. Why is The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone unique?
7. Napoleons plus students plus gables plus orange pips equals what?
8. What relevance does the answer to Question Seven have to 221B Baker Street?
9. Who was ‘the second most dangerous man in London’?
10. Name the odd one out: Inspector Lestrade, Wiggins, Dr Watson, Mrs Hudson.


I've got the answers, and I can definitely assure you I would not have gotten ANY of these without a thorough re-read.
So let's see who knows their Sherlock Holmes ... on your honor to not use Google, give your best answers!
:puffpipe:
EDIT: Okay, I would have gotten one of them. These are tough though.

 
Sep 27, 2012
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yeah those are hard!... Im a huge Sherlock Holmes fan but I only came up with 4 answers LOL ... I guess I need to dust off those old books again :puffpipe:

 

zanthal

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Alright under the assumption that this thread was largely ignored because of the difficulty of the questions ... and I only got one response, mind you ... here are the answers for the enjoyment of those interested:
1. Professor Moriarty.
2. He was an engineer. He lost his thumb. (The Engineer’s Thumb)
3. They were all animals.
4. Mary Morstan.
5. Stories in which Mycroft Holmes appears or gets a mention.
6. It’s the only Holmes story told in the third person.
7. 17. (The Six Napoleons, The Three Students, The Three Gables, The Five Orange Pips).
8. There were seventeen steps to Holmes’s rooms.
9. Colonel Sebastian Moran (The Empty House).
10. Dr John Watson. The others have no Christian names.


 

lazydog

Part of the Furniture Now
Apr 24, 2012
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I just watched The Whitechapel vampire. In it holmes loses his favorite pipe, a churchwarden, but it is returned to him later. Those were pretty tough questions, Zanthal. Very interesting thanx.

 
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