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Arthur Conan who…?
Today your web quest will take you into the world of Arthur Conan Doyle. You will discover
who he was, a bit about his background, the ways he contributed to literature, and who his
most famous character is. The broadest question you’ll be answering is, who is Sir Arthur
Conan Doyle? You will use the following website to answer all questions:
<http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/acdoyle.htm>. Happy hunting!
1. What is the author’s full name (first, middle, last)?
2. In what year was he born?
3. Doyle created the detective ________________ ______________. How many languages
have these stories been translated into?
4. Name eight different ways the Sherlock Holmes stories have been adapted.
5. Where was Doyle born?
6. What was Doyle’s father’s name? What was his mother’s name and nickname?
7. How did Doyle’s mother influence him to write?
8. Doyle learned another language (other than English) at a young age. What language was it
and at what age?
9. In what year did Doyle’s father die? What other significant event happened in this year?
10. Name one college Doyle attended. Name one university he attended.
11. Whom did Doyle marry and in what year?
12. What did Doyle qualify to do in 1885? What did he do after graduation?
13. When did he become a full time writer?
14. When was Doyle’s first Holmes novel published? What was the name of it?
15. Who is the narrator of Holmes mysteries? Who is the evil genius?
16. What is Holmes’s address?
17. When did Doyle “kill” Holmes? What was the name of the story in which he did so?
18. How did the public react to Holmes’s death? What did Doyle do in response to this
reaction?
19. When did Doyle die? Where? From what?
20. Name six of Doyle’s other publications.
21. Who was Sherlock Holmes’s “literary forefather”? Who was the real life person after which
Holmes was modeled?