Q.1
The unassuming name ‘John H. Watson’ was not the one Arthur Conan Doyle originally envisaged. Watson had another name entirely. What was Holmes’s biographer first going to be called?
  • John Rance
  • Ormond Sacker
  • John Ferrier
  • G. Lestrade
Q.2
Dr. Watson’s middle initial is ‘H’. What does the H stand for?
  • Hamish
  • Harry
  • Hartley
  • Nobody knows
Q.3
In ‘The Sign Of Four’ Watson reveals he spent some of his boyhood in a town in a faraway country before returning to school in England. Where was that?
  • Ballarat, Australia
  • Pondicherry, India
  • Salt Lake City, USA
  • Johannesburg, South Africa
Q.4
How did Watson and Holmes first meet?
  • Both played for Blackheath Rugby Club
  • Both were members of the Junior Naval and Military Club
  • Both were members of The Savage Club
  • They were introduced by a surgical dresser by the name of Stamford
Q.5
Where did this historic encounter between Watson and Holmes take place?
  • In a Chemical laboratory at St. Bartholomew's Hospital
  • The Criterion Bar, Piccadilly
  • Madame Tussaud’s
  • Henley Regatta
Q.6
Watson is introduced to Sherlock Homes in ‘A Study In Scarlet’. They shake hands. Holmes asks “How are you?” followed to Watson’s great astonishment with “You have been in Afghanistan, I perceive”. Holmes was correct but why did he make this deduction?
  • Watson wore the tunic badge of the Berkshires who fought in Afghanistan
  • Watson’s military bearing, skin burnt nut-brown, and damaged arm
  • Watson spoke some words of Pashto to a passing orderly
  • Watson had an unusual oriental tattoo on his right wrist
Q.7
Early on, Watson discovered Holmes’s ignorance ‘was as remarkable as his knowledge’. Watson compiled an assessment of his new friend’s strengths and weaknesses. Of the following, which knowledge of the subject did Watson describe as ‘profound’ (i.e. first-rate)?
  • Knowledge of Chemistry
  • Knowledge of Literature
  • Knowledge of Astronomy
  • Knowledge of Politics
Q.8
In 1881 Holmes invited Watson to join him in an investigation for the very first time. What title did Watson give this case?
  • The Musgrave Ritual
  • A Study In Scarlet
  • The Reigate Squires
  • The Yellow Face
Q.9
In ‘The Valley of Fear’, Holmes slyly compliments Watson on his sense of humour, as follows: “You are developing a certain unexpected vein of _____ humour, Watson, against which I must learn to guard myself.” Which adjective did Holmes use to describe Watson’s particular type of humour?
  • Pawky
  • Morbid
  • Juvenile
  • Slapstick
Q.10
In ‘The Adventure Of The Empty House’ Watson faints away for the first and last time in his life. Was it because...
  • Holmes reappears from the dead
  • Watson’s deceased wife Mary Morstan reappears from the dead
  • ‘The Napoleon of Crime’, Professor Moriarty, reappears from the dead
  • ‘The woman’, Irene Adler, reappears from the dead
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