Sherlock Holmes: The Speckled Band, The Red Headed League, The Engineer’s
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Question: Why has Ms. Stoner come to talk with Sherlock
Holmes?
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Answer: Helen Stoner believes that her life is in jeopardy.
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Question: How does the
Speckled Band resolve the crime?
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Answer: The deadly Swamp
Adar bites Dr. Roylott, thus killing him by the method he wished to kill his second step daughter.
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Question: Why does Sherlock knock on the door of Jabez
Wilson’s work?
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Answer: Sherlock wishes to meet Mr. Spaulding. He sees that “Spaulding” has dirt on his knees, and taps the cobblestones.
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Question: Why does Mr.
Hatherly ignore his suspicions about Colonel Stark?
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Answer: Mr. Hatherly’s business isn’t doing well, so he needs the money.
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Question: What event creates a feeling of dread for Mr. Hatherly?
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Answer: The mysterious woman warning Mr. Hatherly that his life was in danger.
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Question: Why does Dr. Roylott want Julia and Helen Stoner dead?
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Answer: Dr. Roylott wishes his step daughters dead so that he can keep his dead wife’s money.
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Question: Why does Jabez
Wilson have to get the job at the
“League”?
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Answer: Spaulding wants him out of his shop, so that
“Spaulding” can dig a tunnel.
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Question: Why does Sherlock go to the symphony?
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Answer: Sherlock needed to think about the best way to keep
“Spaulding” from stealing the
French gold from the bank.
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Question: What causes Colonel
Stark to try and kill Mr. Hatherly?
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Answer: Mr. Hatherley realizes that he was lied to about the machine, and says so to Colonel
Stark.
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Question: Why were there two sets of prints next to where Mr.
Hatherley was found?
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Answer: The mysterious lady and Ferguson weren’t willing to let Mr. Hatherley die in the fire.
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Question: What is so “strange” about Dr. Roylott’s collection of animals?
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Answer: Dr. Roylott has strange tastes in pets: a cheetah and a baboon.
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Question: How is Dr. Roylott’s relationship with the gypsies a distractor?
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Answer: Julia’s reference to a speckled band makes Sherlock think that it may be a clue about the gypsies who wear a speckled handkerchief on their heads.
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Question: What is so brilliant about Spaulding’s plan?
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Answer: He dupes Jabez Wilson into believing that an organization that doesn’t exist is paying him simply because he has red hair.
Which keeps Wilson out of the office for hours.
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Question: What is “Spaulding’s” real name?
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Answer: John Clay – a known con artist; Sherlock has tried to catch him before.
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Question: Why does the author describe Colonel Stark as
“fleshless”?
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Answer: It is a comparison to a skeleton; a warning that he is dangerous/death.
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Question: “It is not cold that makes me shiver,” “It is fear, Mr.
Holmes. It is terror.”
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Answer: Helen Stoner, interview with Sherlock Holmes in “The Speckled Band”
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Question: “Your hands, my dear sir. Your right hand is larger than your left. You have worked with it, and the muscles are more developed.”
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Answer: Sherlock Holmes, making observations about
Jabez Wilson; which lead to the ironic statement by Mr. Wilson
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Question: “Third right, fourth left,” answered the assistant promptly, closing the door.
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Answer: Mr. “Spaulding” really
John Clay; hurrying Sherlock away from the store so he could go back to digging – “The Red
Headed League”
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Question: “My night could not be called monotonous,” said he.
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Answer: The Engineer, Mr.
Hatherley… when he first meets
Dr. Watson – “The Engineer’s
Thumb”
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Question: “I say a night’s work.
But an hour’s would be nearer the mark. I simply want your opinion about a hydraulic stamping machine that has gotten out of gear.”
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Answer: Colonel Stark; Stark’s interview of Mr. Hatherly – The
Engineer
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Question: Define Deduction
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Answer: using information gathered through observation and reasoning to come to a logical conclusion.
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Question: Define Notorious
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Answer: someone or something that is widely known for nefarious (bad/evil) reasons
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Question: Define Improbable
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Answer: not likely but possible;
NOT IMPOSSIBLE
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Question: Define Trivial
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Answer: not having great importance; insignificant in the grand scheme of things
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Question: Define Recompense
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Answer: return or payment for something: sometimes a negative return
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Customizing the Quiz Show Template
The Blank Quiz Show Review is ready for you to customize. This presentation is designed to be a review for a unit.
You make up the categories, questions and answers, then show the review to your class using a scan converter or projector. All the hyperlinks connecting the points on slide two to the correct questions have already been created.
Once you have created one review, you can give the blank PowerPoint show and these directions to students and assign them to create the next review. Students, in groups of five, can make up 5 questions each: one for each category, or each in charge of a category of their own.
1. Double-click on the quiz show template file “Blank Quiz Show Review” to open it.
2. Click on File and Save As to give the quiz show template a new file name. This way you can save the blank copy to use again.
3. Change the view to Slide Sorter from the View Menu.
4. From the Edit menu, choose Replace . In the first line of the box that appears, type Topic 1 , then tab to the second line. Type in your first category name. Click on the Replace All button. You should get a message that 11 changes were made, and you should be able to see the changes in the slides.
5. Repeat this process to change all your general “topics” to your specific topic names. When you are finished, switch back to Slide View from the View Menu.
6. Go to Slide 3 by clicking on the double down-arrow at the bottom of the vertical scroll bar.
7. Click after the colon in the text box reading "Question:" to type in your first question.
8. Go to Slide 4. Click after the colon in the text box reading "Answer:" to type in the answer to your first question.
9. Repeat with all slides in the quiz show presentation. Don't forget to save your work every few minutes by clicking on the third icon on the top toolbar (looks like a floppy disk).
10. Showing the presentation: Open the new document in PowerPoint. From the View menu, choose Slide Show.
To link to the questions from slide 2, move the mouse over a number so that a hand appears. Click on the number.
You must do the same to go back to the gameboard on each answer slide. DO NOT click on the slide just
ANYWHERE. That will take you to the next slide instead of back to the gameboard. Make sure ONLY to click when you see the hand indicating a hyperlink.
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Jeopardy Quiz Game
Suggested instructions for playing the game with a class:
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Project the game onto a large screen or use a large computer monitor at the front of the class.
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Divide the class into teams of up to four players. Have any other students count off 1 to 4 and sit in the audience.
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Provide each team with a flashlight, whistle, or other means of "buzzing-in" to indicate they know the answer.
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Appoint a scorekeeper.
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Appoint a reader to read each question to the group.
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The teacher or a student can act as moderator.
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Let the first team select a category.
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Once the question pops up, the first team to "buzz-in" gets to try to answer the question.
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Add or deduct the number of points corresponding to the number they selected under the category.
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If the first team misses, the remaining teams can buzz-in and answer the question.
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If no team knows the answer, the audience is given the opportunity to answer. The first person to raise his or her hand and answer correctly receives the points for the team that corresponds to their number.
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Go back to the game board and let the team who answered correctly select the next category and point value.
This power point may include a slide with a list of terms the teacher may wish to print out to assist the students during the game.
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