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1. The Adventure Of The Cock-Eyed Parson: By correctly recognizing that no Anglican would call a priest “Father,” Holmes successfully exposed Bartholomew Hanford as Italian, causing an uproar at the stock exchange.

Correct! This is one of the more famous twists in Doyle’s canon.; After Dr. Watson fell through the lodging-house’s rotted floorboards onto a heap of mummified owls, Holmes had all the pieces he needed to put the puzzle together: Mr. Abagnale’s wooden leg was, in fact, an arm.

Incorrect! You must’ve missed one of the more famous twists in Doyle’s canon.; Roosters don’t lay eggs.

Incorrect! You must’ve missed one of the more famous twists in Doyle’s canon.; Once his bandages were removed, Holmes instantly recognized Sir Cowley as the bandaged man who insulted him on the train platform, and gave him a nice, solid smack.

Incorrect! You must’ve missed one of the more famous twists in Doyle’s canon.

2. The Adventure Of The Cypriot Skiff: By noting the splintering on the notches on the stock of his Winchester carbine, Holmes deduced it was Duke Edmund’s knife, wielded by Scully Brown, that pierced the haunch of the cart-horse, and not the other way around, as the police suspected.

Incorrect! With his powers of deduction, Holmes uncovers this decades-long deception, sending Lady Chantelle into a permanent swoon.; The unsettled spread of the peacock feathers in Lady Chantelle’s locked salon could only have been caused by a draft, which Holmes traced to a trap door beneath the heavy bed of her invalid husband, proving conclusively that his polio was a ruse.

Correct! With his powers of deduction, Holmes uncovers this decades-long deception, sending Lady Chantelle into a permanent swoon.; To everyone’s surprise, a skiff turned out to be a small, flat-bottomed boat, typically sailed or rowed by one person.

Incorrect! With his powers of deduction, Holmes uncovers this decades-long deception, sending Lady Chantelle into a permanent swoon.; Holmes swaddled the infant Glenn in Mrs. Dunsop’s finest lace curtain and yet it cried nonetheless, demonstrating that there’s just no pleasing a bad baby.

Incorrect! With his powers of deduction, Holmes uncovers this decades-long deception, sending Lady Chantelle into a permanent swoon.

3. The Bedouin In Trafalgar: While treating cuts sustained during his midnight duel at at the Canary Wharf, Holmes noticed a splinter of hawthorn wood in his knuckle, which meant that the casket he punched was not made in Staines, as he’d believed, but in Hertfordshire, giving him the evidence he needed to have the corpse of Lucas Westmoreland exhumed and finally thrown in the Thames.

Incorrect! The greyhound had a dozen puppies.; Holmes spends this entire story either asleep or half-asleep, and it ends unresolved.

Incorrect! The greyhound had a dozen puppies.; Electromagnetism.

Incorrect! The greyhound had a dozen puppies.; After discovering a trove of cigar butts hidden behind Dr. Orville’s mantle molding, Holmes immediately connected them to the greyhound that gave birth in his alley that morning, and runs to handcuff a barrister who happens to be passing under the window.

Correct! The greyhound had a dozen puppies.

4. The Adventure Of The Colonel’s Rub: Sage, basil, marjoram, pepper, salt, paprika, onion powder, garlic powder, oregano, sand, and chili powder.

Correct! Only Holmes’ expert palate could discern the Colonel’s secret ingredient: ordinary sand!; Garlic, cumin, baby powder, red pepper, hot poppies, carrot dust, anise, fennel sprout, grey awakening, and pretzel salt.

Incorrect! Only Holmes’ expert palate could discern the Colonel’s secret ingredient: ordinary sand!; Ground mustard, jasmine rice, cinnamonesque, saffron, pumpkin shavings, grit, lard, spirit gum, kapok seed, herbs, and hay.

Incorrect! Only Holmes’ expert palate could discern the Colonel’s secret ingredient: ordinary sand!; It’s just Old Bay and MSG.

Incorrect! Only Holmes’ expert palate could discern the Colonel’s secret ingredient: ordinary sand!

5. The Adventure Of The Pinched Martin: By drinking a tureen of expired gravy, Dr. Watson inadvertently proved Holmes’ theory on bacterial propagation, giving him the breakthrough he needed to complete his forensic investigation and successfully have a urinal arrested.

Incorrect! At 147 words, this is by far the shortest Sherlock Holmes story Doyle ever published.; Holmes yells “Copper pipe” at a detective before he can even begin explaining the case, ending the story partway down the first page.

Correct! At 147 words, this is by far the shortest Sherlock Holmes story Doyle ever published.; All solutions discovered over the course of this story were purely personal.

Incorrect! At 147 words, this is by far the shortest Sherlock Holmes story Doyle ever published.; Having kept a thorough log of the arc of mid-winter sunlight through the cathedral window, Holmes had no trouble correctly identifying Piltdown Man as a paleoanthropological hoax.

Incorrect! At 147 words, this is by far the shortest Sherlock Holmes story Doyle ever published.

6. The Great Strawberry Caper: While the sticky paw prints on Mr. Turtle’s front door implicated him as the thief, Holmes quickly deduced that turtles don’t have paws, and uncovered a plot to frame him by sly Mr. Fox.

Incorrect! Mother Hedgehog wanted it to be a surprise for everyone, and that made it all the more delicious.; Noticing that the muddy footprints in Mother Hedgehog’s kitchen contained a high quantity of red clay, Holmes hightailed it to the riverbed, where he found both the missing strawberries and Old Sir Alligator in mid-munch.

Incorrect! Mother Hedgehog wanted it to be a surprise for everyone, and that made it all the more delicious.; As it turned out, no one had stolen the strawberries—Mother Hedgehog had simply baked them into a great crusty pie!

Correct! Mother Hedgehog wanted it to be a surprise for everyone, and that made it all the more delicious.; No idea; the last few pages were always stuck together with jam.

Incorrect! Mother Hedgehog wanted it to be a surprise for everyone, and that made it all the more delicious.

7. A Cask Of Falernum: Holmes whipped up a concoction of saltpeter, quicklime, and aqua regia, finally rediscovering the lost secret of miraculous Greek Fire, and that was good enough for him.

Incorrect! It was a big, rowdy ape.; It’s a riled-up orangutan.

Correct! It was a big, rowdy ape.; Based on the dialect of its Sanskrit inscription, Holmes identified Dr. Carlin’s Samarkand statuette as a forgery and smashed it open. Inside was a scrap of paper that read “CASE CLOSED,” neatly tying up every loose end.

Incorrect! It was a big, rowdy ape.; After staking out Swineshead Abbey for a day and a night, Holmes spotted a solitary figure emerge from the catacombs dragging a body behind it, conclusively proving his hypothesis that someone was committing crimes at Swineshead Abbey.

Incorrect! It was a big, rowdy ape.

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