Classic Canon
What is the title of the very first Sherlock Holmes story?
What is “A Study in Scarlet”?
What is Holmes’ favorite method of solving cases?
What is deductive reasoning (or deduction)?
What is Dr. Watson’s first name?
What is John?
Who played Sherlock Holmes in the Guy Ritchie-directed films alongside Jude Law as Watson?
Who is Robert Downey Jr.?
Who is Sherlock Holmes’ most famous arch-nemesis?
Who is Professor Moriarty?
What is the name of Holmes’ landlady?
Who is Mrs. Hudson?
What kind of tobacco does Holmes often smoke?
What is pipe tobacco?
What war did Watson serve in before meeting Holmes?
What is the Second Anglo-Afghan War?
Which actor portrayed a modern-day Holmes in the BBC series Sherlock?
Who is Benedict Cumberbatch?
What is the name of the dog in The Hound of the Baskervilles?
What is the Hound?
In which story does Holmes supposedly fall to his death at the Reichenbach Falls?
What is “The Final Problem”?
Holmes keeps his tobacco in an unusual place. Where is it?
What is in a slipper?
What profession did Watson pursue before becoming Holmes’ partner?
What is a doctor (or army surgeon)?
What actor played an eccentric Holmes opposite Will Ferrell’s Watson in the 2018 spoof Holmes & Watson?
Who is John C. Reilly?
In A Scandal in Bohemia, Holmes is hired by a royal figure. What is his title?
Who is the King of Bohemia?
What instrument does Holmes famously play?
What is the violin?
Holmes has a brother who is also highly intelligent. What’s his name?
Who is Mycroft Holmes?
Who is the loyal detective from Scotland Yard often seen in the stories?
Who is Inspector Lestrade?
Which actor portrayed Holmes in Mr. Holmes, playing the detective in his retirement years?
Who is Ian McKellen?
Which villain tries to murder his wife with a deadly snake in The Adventure of the Speckled Band?
Who is Dr. Grimesby Roylott?
Which Sherlock Holmes story involves a mysterious speckled band?
What is “The Adventure of the Speckled Band”?
Holmes once disguised himself so well that Watson didn’t recognize him. What was the disguise?
Answer: What is an old bookseller (or a beggar, depending on the story)?
Who is the woman Holmes refers to as “the woman”?
Who is Irene Adler?
In the TV show Elementary, Holmes is played by Jonny Lee Miller. Who plays Watson?
Who is Lucy Liu?
Which story involves a mysterious cipher and an attack on a bicycling woman?
What is “The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist”?