Literature quiz
Sherlock Holmes novels and story collections
Arthur Conan Doyle told the Holmes stories across four novels and five story collections. Name all nine; each drops into its box.
- Format
- Type them all
- Items
- 9 answers
- Limit
- 3:00
- Level
- Medium
- Checked
- 2026.10.03
- Answers
- 9
- Time limit
- 3:00
- Order
- Any order
- Matching
- Case and accents ignored
- Type an answer; it files itself the moment it matches.
- One answer can fill several slots.
- Give up at any time to see what you missed.
- Pause whenever you like (Esc). The board hides while the clock is stopped.
Name the nine Sherlock Holmes books.
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Story collections0/5
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About this quiz
Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson appear in four novels and five books of short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle. The Hound of the Baskervilles opens with Holmes at the breakfast table, examining a visitor's walking stick.
- The first licence to adapt Sherlock Holmes went to William Gillette in 1899, for his Broadway play.
- Holmes first appeared on television in 1937, in a dramatisation of The Adventure of the Three Garridebs.
- Jeremy Brett starred in 41 episodes of the television series The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
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