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Sherlock Holmes Trivia

Dust off your deerstalker and prove you're Holmes material by cracking cases from stained glass knights to mind palace mysteries.

EXAMPLE QUESTIONS

Who portrayed Sherlock Holmes in the 1939 film The Hound of the Baskervilles, then continued in a 14-film run opposite Nigel Bruce’s Dr. Watson through 1946?

Basil Rathbone

Finish Holmes’s maxim: "When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be ___"?

The truth

What mnemonic technique is Holmes often shown entering to retrieve clues, popularized by the BBC series with Benedict Cumberbatch?

Mind Palace

On House M.D., Dr. Gregory House lives at the exact same address as Sherlock Holmes. What is that address?

221B Baker Street

Who portrays the brilliant detective in the BBC's modern series Sherlock, created by Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss and co-starring Martin Freeman as Dr. John Watson?

Benedict Cumberbatch