How well do you remember the people and clues in Arthur Conan Doyle’s first Sherlock Holmes story collection? This five-question quiz covers several cases in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. Choose one answer for each question before you open the answer section. The page does not collect or store your answers.
Spoiler note: The questions reveal solutions from the collection. Listen to The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes audiobook before taking the quiz if you want to solve each mystery first.
Five questions
1. Who narrates most of the stories in the collection?
- A. Inspector Lestrade
- B. Dr Watson
- C. Mrs Hudson
- D. Mycroft Holmes
2. Which woman outwits Holmes in “A Scandal in Bohemia”?
- A. Helen Stoner
- B. Violet Hunter
- C. Irene Adler
- D. Mary Sutherland
3. What address appears in Holmes’s advertisement in “The Blue Carbuncle”?
- A. 221B Baker Street
- B. 7 Pope’s Court
- C. Briony Lodge
- D. Coburg Square
4. Who brings the strange Red-Headed League problem to Holmes?
- A. Henry Baker
- B. Jabez Wilson
- C. John Openshaw
- D. Victor Hatherley
5. What is the “speckled band” in the final solution?
- A. A ribbon
- B. A gang of thieves
- C. A trained snake
- D. A spotted rope
Show answers and explanations
- B. Dr Watson. Watson records the cases and gives the reader a close view of Holmes without revealing every deduction too soon.
- C. Irene Adler. Adler detects Holmes’s disguise and leaves England before he can recover the photograph for the King of Bohemia.
- A. 221B Baker Street. Holmes uses this address when he advertises for Henry Baker after a goose and a hat are found.
- B. Jabez Wilson. The red-haired pawnbroker asks Holmes to explain the unusual job that paid him to copy an encyclopedia.
- C. A trained snake. Holmes identifies the creature as a swamp adder after it returns through the ventilator and bites its owner.
Use your result
A high score shows that you followed details across several independent mysteries. If you missed a question, return to that story and listen for the clue in context. Then ask a deeper question: when does Holmes observe a fact before Watson understands its importance?
Text and editorial source
Questions and explanations are original BookAud editorial content, checked against Arthur Conan Doyle’s collection, Project Gutenberg eBook 1661. The source lists all twelve stories and identifies the text as public domain in the United States. This quiz is not a separate recording or adaptation.