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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
Does Sherlock Holmes get engaged in the Sherlock Holmes books?
Actually, yes! He is engaged to marry the housemaid of Charles Augustus Milverton although, in his mind, there is nothing romantic about it.
Does Sherlock Holmes smoke his pipe?
Sherlock Holmes smoked shag tobacco, kept in the toe of a Persian slipper in his pipe. He kept his cigars in the coal-scuttle. He also smoked cigarettes on occasion. He called a very difficult challenge a 'three pipe problem.'
More correctly Sherlock Holmes smoked "Black Shag", Shag is the cut of the tobacco. Others Holmes may have smoked as they are in a recreation of Holmes study in England- Arcadian Mixture, Birdseye (Watson's favorite) Odd one was Honeydew ( Irish Style) offered to Holmes by Susan Cushing.
He often smoked cigarettes when out and about, and once in a while he smoked a cigar. The pipe was reserved for smoking at home.
Sherlock Holmes - The Gloria Scott?
Ah, The Adventure of the Gloria Scott (GLOR), Sherlock Holmes' first-ever case, his third being The Adventure of the Musgrave Ritual (MUSG). When Holmes dropped out of college after only two years and lived in a flat in Montague street, his first cases were those brought to him by former fellow-students who knew of his powers of logic and deduction. Eventually, he started to gain a little reputation outside of school and was able to be involved in cases the police consulted him on. Thus, he became the world's only Consulting Detective.
Sherlock Holmes and the Duke's Son summary?
You must mean 'The Adventure of the Priory School,' so please check the link below.
The characters that play in the story of Five Orange Pips?
Sherlock Holmes
Dr Watson
Mrs Watson
Sherlock Holmes' unnamed landlady
Sherlock Holmes' unnamed maid
John Openshaw
Elias Openshaw, John Openshaw's uncle
Joseph Openshaw, John Openshaw's father
Mary, Elias Openshaw's maid
Mr Fordham, Elias Openshaw's lawyer
Major Freebody, Joseph Openshaw's friend
Captain James Calhoun and 2 unnamed accomplices
Hudson, KKK leader
McCauley, Paramore, and John Swain, supposed KKK targets
Constable Cook
unnamed inspector
unnamed stevedore (dockworker)
Major Prendergast, former client of Holmes
Georges Cuvier (1769-1832), French scientist with whom Holmes compared his own abilities
Why does the hound kill the escaped convict?
The reason the hound attacked Selden was that he was wearing the clothes that Sir Henry had given Barrymore. Barrymore turned and gave them to Selden. Stapleton had set the hound on the scent of Sir Henry, and since the hound smelled the scent of Sir Henry, it attacked Selden.
A bell rope is a short length of rope which is spliced to the eye of the clapper of a ship's bell, by which it is struck.
What is Cartwright's assignment?
To search the 23 hotels near Charing Cross for a Times newspaper with words cut out of it. Let us not forget his help to the Man on the Tor.
Stapleton's body was never recovered in the original story. He was assumed to be lost to Grimpen Mire.
How did Sherlock Holmes investigate his cases?
He liked to use his magnifying glass
***************Sherlock Holmes used, most of all, his brain: his intuition, as well as his thorough analysis.
Observation and deduction
Chapter 13
Who is the most interesting character of valley of fear and why?
The most interesting character of the valley of fear isMcMurdo because he was very loyal,brave,clever and independent. He tricked the Scowrers for ettie. He figured out a way to send the Scowrers to jail without creating any suspicion and he saved Chester Wilcox and his family by warning them before he blew up their home.He tried to keep James Stanger from dying by stopping Baldwin from continuing to beat him up.He was self-reliant and assertive by approaching characters with confidence.
How did Dr Roylott get his interest in and knowledge of snakes?
Dr Roylott had spent a lot of time practicing medicine in India, which is where we assume he discovered his interest in poisonous snakes.
Who is professor James moriarty's sidekick?
Colonel Sebastian Moran unless you count his younger brother Colonel James Moriarty, a station-master in the West of England.
Where did Holmes and Watson stay?
The characters of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's: Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson had an apartment at 221B Baker Street, London England.
During many of their cases they stayed at various lodgings throughout England.
Who are the characters in the valley of fear?
These are the characters in The Valley of Fear:
Sherlock Holmes
Professor Moriarty
Dr. Watson
Mrs. Hudson
Birdy Edwards, alias John McMurdo, alias John Douglas
Cecil James Barker
Mrs. Ivy Douglas
Ted Baldwin alias Hargrave
Inspector Alec MacDonald
Billy (Holmes' and Watson's page)
Fred Porlock (Moriarty's agent turned informant)
Colonel Sebastian Moran
White Mason (local officer)
Sgt. Wilson (initial investigator)
Dr. Wood (initial investigator)
Ames (Douglas's butler)
Mrs. Allen (maid)
Jack McGinty
Evans Pott (his boss)
Mike Scanlan
Tiger Cormac
Wilson
Harraway (secretary)
Carter (treasurer)
Morris
Gower
Mansel
Arthur Willaby (assaulted James Stanger newspaper editor) and his brother
Reilly (Scowrers' lawyer)
Lawler
Andrews (killed Josiah H. Dunn, Menzies the mine manager, and engineer)
Jack Knox
Herman Strauss (potential victim)
Jim Carnaway (shot while trying to kill Chester Wilcox)
Manders and Reilly (attempted killers of Wilcox)
James Murdoch (mutilated)
Jacob Shafter (boarding house owner)
Ettie Shafter (his daughter)
Widow MacNamara (next boarding house)
Teddy Marvin (police)
Jonathan Wild (Moriarty-like criminal from 1700's)
six additional unnamed servants
Sir Charles Chandos (Ames former employer)
James H. Scott (Bodymaster lodge 29)
Murphy (recommended Shafter's)
Andrew Rae
Milman
Hyam
Van Shorst
Nicholson
Billy James
Charlie Williams
Simon Bird
William Hales
Hunt
Evans
Mr. & Mrs. Larbey
Jenkins brothers
Staphouse and Standal families (murdered by Scowrers)
Bartholomew Wilson (district ruler)
J.W.Windle (division master lodge 249)
Higgins (their treasurer)
Archie Swindon
Lee
Todman
Manson
Shuman
Van Deher
Atwood (driven out by Scowrers)
Jonas Pinto (supposedly shot by McMurdo)
Greuze (French artist whose work hung in his office)
Did Sherlock Holmes ever use a sword?
In 'A Study in Scarlet' and again in 'The Five Orange Pips' Holmes is described as a swordsman, but there is no instance in the stories of him actually using one.
Who did the cab driver think he was driving in Sherlock Holmes?
If you are referring to 'The Hound of the Baskervilles,' the passenger told the cab driver he was Sherlock Holmes.
No. At least not in the UK, though there are over 12,000 Johns.
What is Dr Joseph bells connection to Sherlock Holmes?
Dr. Joseph Bell's connection to Sherlock Holmes is: while Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was studying medicine at the University of Edinburgh, Dr. Bell was his university professor, and during his course Conan Doyle was allowed to watch and observe his appointments with his clients. So, even before his clients had sat down, Dr. Bell had already worked out their [his clients] past profession, what they had been doing and where they had been all from deducting the evidence from the little clues offered, subconsciously, by the client.
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The 26.2 tattoo is not a Sherlock one but a Johnny Lee Miller tattoo. Miller has run 26 marathons and a fifth of a marathon where he dropped out.
