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Sherlock Holmes
Includes questions about this famous FICTIONAL detective created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Questions about Sherlock Holmes movies (which mostly ask about the actors rather than the stories) should be placed under "Movies."
1,260 Questions
With whom does Stapleton share an eerie resemblance?
Stapleton shares an eerie resemblance with the mysterious hound that haunts the moor in "The Hound of the Baskervilles" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. This physical resemblance adds to Stapleton's villainous and menacing presence in the story.
What details about Wilson enable Holmes to deduce several facts about him when they first meet?
In the Red-Headed League, Holmes is able to deduce several things about Wilson when they first meet. Wilson's right hand is larger than his left, indicating he is a manual laborer and he wears an arc-and-compass tie tac, a common Masonic symbol. He also deduces Wilson writes frequently because his right cuff is shiny from rubbing across the desk and his left jacket elbow is worn from pressing against a desk.
The Hound of Baskervilles is a story written by Arthur Conan Doyle surrounding the alleged supernatural presence of a ghostly hound. The hound is later proved to not be supernatural at all. The criminal in the book was the nephew of Sir Charles Baskerville.
Where does the name Baskerville come from?
As far as Sherlock Holmes is concerned, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle got the idea for 'The Hound of the Baskervilles' from his friend Bertram Fletcher Robinson who employed a driver named Harry Baskerville. No kidding!
What is significant about Dr. Roylott's wife's will?
The total income [from the deceased wife's will is] not more than £750. Each daughter can claim an income of £250, in case of marriage. It is evident, therefore, that if both girls had married this beauty would have had a mere pittance, while even one of them would cripple him to a serious extent.
Find as many words as you can from Sherlock Holmes?
Sherlock Holmes. 4 vowels, 2 E's and 2 O's. The rest are consonants 2 S's, 2 H's, R, 2 L's, C, K, M...
She, her, hers, lock, locks, home, homes, elm, elms, some, hemlock, shore, shores, mess, more, moor, moors, room, rooms, Rome, mere, hell, hello, helm, helms, smell, sell, sells, shell, shells, color, colors, role, roles, sore, sores, shock, shocks, here, cheer, cheers, hole, holes, loom, looms, leer, leers, reel, reels, heel, heels, less, lesser, mole, moles, shoe, shoes, seer, seers... (There may be more.)
What is the book code in Sherlock Holmes Valley of Fear involving Whitaker's Almanac?
The code itself is as follows:
534 C2 13 127 36 31 4 17 21 41
DOUGLAS 109 293 5 37 BIRLSTONE
26 BIRLSTONE 9 47 171
The first two entries are page number and second column respectively, and the remainder are the word numbers in that column. The three words in the code are not found on that page and column, so they must be written out.
By the way, you will not solve this code with any year of the actual Whitaker's Almanac.
Why does Mary call Dr John Watson 'James' in The man with the twisted lip?
I am sure it is pure coincidence, but Sir Arthur Conan Doyle knew a Dr. James Watson.
Falling action of red headed league?
Falling Action- In the early hours of morning, Holmes explains to Watson how he solved the crime. Holmes then realized immediately that Wilson's job of copying the encyclopedia was simply a reason to get him out of the pawnshop for several hours a day. Holmes figured that Spaulding, who spent so much time in the pawnshop's cellar, was digging a tunnel down there to a nearby building. By thumping his walking stick on the pavement, Holmes determined Wilson's basement stretched behind the house, so he walked around the block to see what building were nearby. When he saw the bank, Holmes knew that it was obvious the tunnel was going there. He also looked at Spaulding's knees to see that they were dirty and worn from hours of digging the tunnel. He knew Spaulding would rob the bank in the evening, on Saturday, because he would then have an extra day before the robbery would be discovered and he could escape. After solving what will happen, Holmes contacted Jones and Mr. Merryweather to help catch the thieves.
Where can you read 'the uncollected Sherlock Holmes'?
The Uncollected Sherlock Holmes is a book by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, compiled by John Gorham and Richard Lancelyn Green, published by Penguin Books in 1983.
It may be available from your public library through interlibrary loan. It is available in Sherlock Holmes and Arthur Conan Doyle collections in some major libraries such as that in the University of Minnesota and the Toronto Reference Library; but they won't go out of their respective buildings.
You could try buying it online through a used book dealer, such as 'Better World Books' or 'Abebooks'
You might also try to find these alternate titles that have almost the same contents:
Sherlock Holmes: The Published Apocrypha edited by Jack Tracy
The Final Adventures of Sherlock Holmes edited by Peter Haining
The final volume of Leslie Klinger's Sherlock Holmes Reference Library, which I believe is also contained in the New Annotated Sherlock Holmes (3 large volumes)
What was Sherlock's vice when bored and not on a case?
A seven-percent solution of cocaine (which was legal at that time in England).
What happens in the bank cellar on Saturday night in the short story The Red-Headed League?
In the short story "The Red-Headed League" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Mr. Jabez Wilson goes to the bank cellar on Saturday night to copy out the Encyclopedia Britannica in exchange for a high salary. However, this is all part of a ploy orchestrated by criminals to keep him out of his workplace so they can tunnel into a nearby bank and attempt a robbery.
In the hound of the baskervilles how was the hound made to look ghostly?
This is from chapter 14 of the story:
... Even now, in the stillness of death, the huge jaws seemed to be dripping with a bluish flame, and the small, deep-set, cruel eyes were ringed with fire. I placed my hand upon the glowing muzzle, and as I held them up my own fingers smouldered and gleamed in the darkness.
__'Phosphorus,' I said.
The hound appeared to glow due to phosphorous.
Which was not one of the clues about Dr Mortimer that Holmes was able to deduce from the object?
He smoked a pipe and used fine Virginia tobacco.
Perhaps the full quote will enlighten you:
"Really, Watson, you excel yourself. I am bound to say that in all the accounts which you have been so good as to give of my own small achievements you have habitually underrated your own abilities. It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it. I confess, my dear fellow, that I am very much in your debt." -- Sherlock Holmes, 'The Hound of the Baskervilles'
In Hound of the Baskervilles what is the moors?
the moor is a high bit of land with rough grass this is used in the hound of the baskervilles as a gothic fiction reference and adds a bit of mystery to the novel. the moor is also where the beast as it is refered to lives :)
How does Sherlock Holmes conform to the generic conventions of a superhero?
He doesn't. Sherlock Holmes has no superhuman abilities.
Holmes used science to solve his crimes, modern day forensics. In a Victorian age, this would have been seen as a superhuman capability to solve crimes throw blood matching, chemistry and fingerprints. He did not have superhuman powers but had capabilities that did not conform to Victorian conventions of the police detectives of the time.
