Take the ultimate Sherlock Holmes quiz

Tim Symonds, author of five Sherlock Holmes books (his latest is 'Sherlock Holmes And The Nine-Dragon Sigil'), has written this wonderful quiz for Country Life.

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On Mar 29, 2017
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Where is Sherlock Holmes’s creator Arthur Conan Doyle buried?

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What was Holmes’s first case by year it took place?

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Sherlock Holmes great enemy, the ‘Napoleon of Crime,’ Professor Moriarty, met his grisly end in which Conan Doyle story?

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Who was directly responsible for Professor Moriarty's death?

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Where did this epic struggle to the death occur?

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What subject did Sherlock Holmes's antagonist Professor Moriarty formerly teach?

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What was the name of the savage blowpipe-toting pygmy in "The Sign of Four"?

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What was the name of the woman who outwitted Mr Sherlock Holmes?

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She appeared only the once, in which Conan Doyle story?

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Which famed horror-movie veteran actor has portrayed both Sherlock Holmes and his older brother Mycroft?

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What was the name of the landlady of 221B Baker Street?

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The Bruce Partington plans referred to what?

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How did evil Dr. Grimesby Roylott die?

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According to Dr. Watson, which of these traits is NOT true of Sherlock Holmes?

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In ‘The Adventure of Black Peter’, where did Captain Peter Carey die?

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In what year did Sherlock Holmes make his first-ever appearance in The Strand Magazine?

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What is so special about the adventures of ‘The Lion's Mane’ and ‘The Blanched Soldier’?

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To what religious order did Enoch Drebber and Joseph Stangerson formerly belong?

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What was the real name of the mysterious bike-rider from ‘The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist’?

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Who originally owned the Blue Carbuncle?

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What exactly was the ‘lion's mane’ that Holmes encountered in Sussex?

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In ‘The Valley Of Fear’, what was the brand of the Scowrers?

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Who killed Maria Gibson at Thor Bridge?

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What was the occupation of Charles Milverton in ‘The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton’?

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In ‘A Study In Scarlet’ what is the English translation of the half-word written in blood on the wall of No. 3 Lauriston Gardens?

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