JHWS Quiz 2016- #1
Helpful Youth of the Canon
Baker Street Irregulars, et al
For each answer, include the story in which the answer is found.
Page Number refers to the Doubleday “Complete Sherlock Holmes.”
1. Who thought that he deserved twice the Irregulars’ regular stipend?
Jack Smith-- who would have liked ‘two shillin better’. SIGN (Pg. 123)
2. He spied on Watson. Cartwright – HOUN (Pg. 765)
3. What bonus was to be paid to the triumphant Irregular? A Guinea - SIGN (Pg. 127)
4. He may have been an ancestor of Lisa, the saxophonist. Simpson – CROO (Pg. 419)
5. Name two modes of transportation that were targeted by the Irregulars.
a.
Jefferson Hope’s Cab STUD (Pg. 82, 85)
b. Mordecai Smith’s Launch, the Aurora – SIGN (Pg. 126)
6. Though designated as a guide and companion to Holmes, this unnamed lad was anything but helpful to the
Master. Name the story, the task which he performed and how he is described.
A Swiss lad carried the bogus message of an ill English woman to Watson in FINA (Pg. 478)
7. Although being a small but very efficient organization, the Irregulars could not locate what 3 persons in
London?
Lady Carfax, Dr. Shlessinger (Holy Peters) and Ms. Fraser (Shlessinger’s wife). LADY (Pg. 948).
8. Employed as a ‘dumpster-diver’. Cartwright – HOUN (Pg. 691)
9. Holmes’ instructions to this messenger lad were to ride to the farm and remain mute.
The stable-boy at Riding Thorpe Manor – DANC (Pg. 521)
10. If his first name was Marvin, his monogram would be fitting to his modern day successor.
Wiggins (STUD –Pg. 42): “Marvin’ Wiggins-1881; Mike Whalen -2016