About the Authors
Animal Natures
Sickness & Suffering
Superstition, Ritual, & Tradition
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100
Lu Xun, author of "Medicine," is from this country.
What is China?
100
This animal, often associated with spookiness, concludes the story "Medicine" with a loud caw.
What is a crow?
100
During the mid-1800s in modern-day Turkey, Florence Nightingale was able to reduce death rates of injured soldiers by 40% after implementing basic sanitization tactics, including this very simple one -- make sure you do this before you eat!
What is hand washing?
100
While he promoted a "rational" detective in his writings, Arthur Conan Doyle ironically held a variety of spiritual beliefs, including psychic abilities and encounters with ghosts. He attended several dozen gatherings called these, a French word for "session," in which a group of people attempt communicate with the spirit world.
What is a seance?
100
When Conan Doyle came up with the location of the famous Holmes and Watson flat, the address did not yet exist. However, as London continued to develop, the Sherlock Holmes museum was built at 221B on this street, where the fictional duo lived.
What is Baker Street?
200
In July of 1930, Arthur Conan Doyle passed at the age of 71 from a sudden attack of this organ. His last words, spoken to his wife, were "You are wonderful."
What is a heart attack?
200
In Notes on Nursing, Nightingale suggests that animals can offer "excellent companionship" to a sick patient, especially if they are able to take basic care of the animal by feeding it. Similarly, in hospitals today, charities will often bring in this type of trained, friendly animal--typically a dog or a cat--to comfort to a sick or dying patient.
What is a therapy animal?
200
Complete the following quotation by Florence Nightingale: "If a patient is cold, if a patient is feverish, if a patient is faint, if he is sick after taking food, if he has a bed-sore, it is generally the fault not of the disease, but of the _________."
What is nursing?
200
In "Medicine," Old Chuan receives bread soaked in this liquid, which he believes holds the power to cure his dying child.
What is blood?
200
Although of British ethnicity, Florence Nightingale was born in the city of Florence in this European country.
What is Italy?
300
After a report in The Times, Florence Nightingale became known as "The lady of the this." The journalist also called her a "ministering angel" with great sympathy for the sick and suffering.
What is lamp?
(The Lady with the Lamp by Henrietta Rae, 1891)
300
Spoiler alert! In "The Adventure of the Speckled Band," the "killer" ends up being this scaly creature.
What is a snake?
300
In "Medicine," Old Chaun's son is inflicted with this lung-targeting disease, which can be spread from person to person through sneezes and coughs.
What is tuberculosis?
300
Inducted into the Phoenix Lodge, Arthur Conan Doyle was an on-and-off member of this institution, in which members must adhere to a litany of traditions. This fraternal organization is estimated to have been founded in the 13th century, named after a very specific craftspeople who work with rocks.
What Freemasonry?
300
The Strand magazine, in which most of the Sherlock Holmes stories were originally published, is named after a street in this English city.
What is London?
400
Florence Nightingale is praised for her role as a manager and nurse-trainer during this war, fought between Russia and western Allies over a region bearing the same name.
What is the Crimean War? or What is Crimea?
400
In the Trinity College library in Cambridge, you will find a book written by Florence Nightingale's sister about her beloved pet named Athena. Florence rescued the creature and named it after the goddess because it was this animal, one of the most important symbols associated with Athena and the ancient city of Athens.
What is an owl?
(illustrations by Florence's sister)
400
Conan Doyle's main inspiration for the character of Sherlock Holmes was Joseph Bell, who taught at Doyle's home-town university and practiced this, a career Doyle himself would later pursue.
What is medicine?
400
Throughout her works, Florence Nightingale claims to have been called upon by God into the field of nursing and tending to the sufferings of others. Because of her spiritual call to nursing (not unlike that of a nun), some scholars believe that Nightingale never married, remaining this for her entire life.
What is chaste?
400
In "The Adventure of the Speckled Band" and many other Sherlock Holmes stories, the crime-solving-duo often make use of the London railway stations to travel across the city. The busiest station in the UK is named this, sharing its name with an ABBA song.
What is Waterloo station?
(Waterloo Station, 1848)
500
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes, is from this Scottish city, where you will find a statue of the famous detective in his honour.
What is Edinburgh?
500
When describing her case to Sherlock Holmes, Helen Stoner (in "The Adventure of the Speckled Band") describes that while living in this country, she locked her room every night in fear of the Cheetah and Baboon that her stepfather a kept in the house. Stoner states that due to the hot climate of this country, her stepfather went mad.
What is India?
500
In "The Speckled Band," Helon Stoner approaches Holmes with a case to solve, stating that the detective possesses the unique ability to see this "witchy" trait of the human heart.
What is wickedness?
500
Forget four-leafed clovers and rabbit feet! The day after Old Chuan feeds his son the life-saving bread, a visitor to his shop declares: "______ is with you, Old Chuan!"
What is luck?
500
In "The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans," Mycroft assigns his brother, Sherlock, to find the said plans after the body of Arthur West is found dead next to the underground train tracks. In London, the underground train is called by this nickname, referring to its pipe-like structure.
What is the tube?
