Characters
What is the name of the doctor?
Doctor Watson
Where does Sherlock Holmes live?
in London, 221b Baker street
Who wrote the story?
Arthur Conan Doyle
Who is missing?
a horse called Silver Blaze
What is the English for 'un trou dans le marais'?
a pit
What is the name of the main character?
Sherlock Holmes
Where did the murder happen?
in the north of Dartmoor
What was the author's job appart writing novels?
a doctor
What happened to hunter, the lad on guard?
he was drugged with opium
What is the English for 'des écuries'?
stables
Who was murdered?
John Straker
What kind of place is the place where the murder happened?
a lonely country made of moor, a small cluster of villas not far from the training stables, wilderness
Who killed Sherlock Holmes?
Moriarty as they plunge to their deaths together down the Reichenbach Falls in the story "The Final Problem"
Why did the gypsies leave the place the day after the disappearance of the horse?
they usually left a place when they heard of trouble in order not to be pestered by the police
What is the French for 'lame'?
qui boite
What is the name of the bookmaker?
Fitzroy Simpson
Where was the body found?
it was found a quarter of a mile from the stables in a bowl-shaped depression in the moor
What is the title of his most famous novel?
The hound of Baskerville
Why are there lame sheep?
Straker practised on the sheep before trying to hurt the horse
what is the English for 'une canne pour marcher'?
a walking stick
Who inveited Sherlock Holmes to cooperate for the investigation?
Colonel Ross and Inspector Gregory
Where did the investigators find the horse?
at Cappleton
Why do we add the word "Sir" in front of his name?
because he was knighted by King Edward VII in 1902
Who killed Straker?
Silver Blaze
What is the English for 'enquête'?
investigation