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Results: This week we had successes by: Melissa Anderson “Faith;” Beth Gallego, Loyal Member; and Elinor Gray “Misty.” Our team success was submitted by the stalwarts: Margie Deck “Gwen” and Sheila Holtgrieve “Daisy.” Well done! Answers are below.
This week’s quiz is about quotes by Dr Watson. Please fill in the blanks and cite the book or story in which the quote is found. Please email submissions to buttons@johnhwatsonsociety.com by 7 pm ET, Wednesday, 11 June.
Weekly Quiz 2014: 22
RESULTS: Cheers to Melissa Anderson “Faith,” and our team members Airy Maher, Sheila Holtgrieve “Daisy” and Margie Deck “Gwen” on this week’s solution. All were perfect and several alternative answers were discovered. Answers below.
This week’s quiz is about Canonical small things: physically and philosophically. Good Luck!
Please submit solutions by 12 noon on Wednesday, 4 June 2014 to: buttons@johnhwatsonsociety.com
To All: What is this character’s name and what show did he appear on? Please send all answers to relies1@msn.com. Answer to be posted June 2nd if needed. Thanks, Chips
Results: Melissa Anderson “Faith,” Denny Dobry “Kirby,” Elinor Gray “Misty,” and our team of Margie Deck “Gwen,” Airy Maher LM, and Sheila Holtgrieve “Daisy” all had perfect scores on this week’s quiz. Melissa was, once again, in first in a matter of hours after the quiz was posted. Congratulations Quiz Masters! Answers below.
This week’s quiz is about water. Please submit solutions by 7 pm Wednesday, 28 May 2014 to buttons@johnhwatsonsociety.com.
RESULTS: We have some VERY talented Quiz Masters! Within hours, Melissa Anderson “Faith” submitted a perfect 30/30 and Elinor Gray “Misty” was in next with 27/30 for this most obscure quiz. Team honours go to Airy Maher, Loyal Member, Margie Deck “Gwen” and Sheila Holtgrieve “Daisy” with a perfect 30/30. Well done! Answers below.
Here it is . . . the wicked one! Good Luck. Submissions by noon Wednesday please.
RESULTS: First in and 10/10 was Melissa Anderson “Faith” with Elinor Gray close and second in. Team honours continue with Margie Deck “Gwen” and Sheila Holtgrieve “Daisy” with 10/10. Well Done! Answers below.
This week’s quiz is a Study in Absence of Colour
Please submit solutions to these questions by 7 pm Wednesday, 14 May 2014 to buttons@johnhwatsonsociety.com
RESULTS: You are all SO good at this! First in again was Melissa Anderson “Faith” from Peoria with 20/20 and a couple of alternative answers that expand the horizons. Perfection also from Denny Dobry “Kirby” and our Team members from Seattle, Margie Deck “Gwen,” Sheila Holtgrieve “Daisy,” and Airy Maher, Loyal Member. Ever so close were Elinor Gray “Misty” and Michele Lopez “Reggie.”
Buttons is behind his time! Too many patients to see the Doctor. Sorry. Please submit solutions by 7pm Wednesday, May 7, 2014.
This week’s quiz is about dates. It’s a tough one! Good Luck!
RESULTS: Melissa Anderson “Faith” was first in and 25/25. Elinor Hickey “Misty” was spot-on. Denny Dobry “Kirby” was very competitive again. Michele Lopez “Reggie” was also spot-on. The team honours, once again, go to Margie Deck “Gwen,” Sheila Holtgrieve “Daisy,” and Airy Maher, Loyal Member, of Seattle’s SOBs. This was a difficult quiz and several of our “intrepid” Quiz Masters commented on the difficulty. You all did well. Answers are below.
What is the address? That is your quiz for this week. Fifteen difficult and challenging questions about Canonical addresses and their identification.
Please submit your solutions by 7 pm Eastern Wednesday, 30 April 2014 to buttons@johnhwatsonsociety.com.
A quiz on Canonical tools. Please submit by 7 pm Eastern on Wednesday, April 23, 2014 to buttons@johnhwatsonsociety.com
RESULTS: Once again, you are good! Quiz solutions were all 10/10 and received in this order: Individuals: Melissa Anderson “Faith;” Denny Dobry “Kirby;” Elinor Gray “Misty;” and Michele Lopez “Reggie.” Team: Margie Deck “Gwen;” Shiela Holtgrieve “Daisy” and Airy Maher, Loyal Member.
Congratulations to all and especially for finding the many alternative answers that you uncovered. Great work! Answers are below.
This week’s quiz focuses on words. Describe the word as used and cite the story in which it is found. There may be several answers to each; one is sufficient. Honours will go to those who receive 25/25.
RESULTS: Excellent results this week with Elinor Gray “Misty” returning to take honours with 20/20 + 5 = 25 points and perfect answers plus numerous alternatives. Also, Denny Dobry “Kirby” with 25 points and numerous alternatives in another of his usual thorough submissions. Team honours go to Margie Deck “Gwen” and Sheila Holtgrieve “Daisy” with perfect results, as always. Well Done ALL! Answers below.
RESULTS ARE IN!
The SOBs do it again! Our members of Team SOBs in Seattle have cracked the quiz for another perfect 25/25! Margie Deck “Gwen,” Sheila Holtgrieve “Daisy,” and Airy Maher, Loyal Member returned a ‘spot on’ quiz for the week’s honours. Known as “The Invincibles” here at Quiz Central, we are inspired by their thorough scholarship and uncanny research capacity. Congratulations again!
Coming in close was our illustrious member from Italy, Michele Lopez, president of Uno Studio in Holmes, the Italian scion society. Michele submitted a few blanks, but added several new twists to the existing answers. Well Done!
Answers are posted below.
Buttons has been fielding some lightweight quizzes recently owing to the activities involved in the relocation of the good Doctor’s offices . . . . Now, it is time to get back to form since he has ample time to sit on his stool and contemplate the great mysteries whilst having a few pints and pies.
This week he turns to the Canon through the eyes of those who offer the “details behind the manuscript.” Each of the 20 questions concern details about Canonical facts.
Submissions may be made to buttons@johnhwatsonsociety.com up to 7 pm Eastern on Wednesday, 9 April 2014. Good luck!
Download Week 14 Questions and Answers.
The Treasure Hunt will consist of 100 exceptionally difficult quiz questions (perhaps more) involving Canonical text and the scholarship and miscellanea from the past 80 years.
This year, the Society is also extending invitations to scion clubs from around the world to field teams of 3 to 5 members to participate in the International Invitational Team Category. We are hoping to have participation from England, France, Italy, Japan, India, Germany, U.S. scions, and other nations. All organisations are welcome.
A beautiful, engraved crystal vase will be awarded to the International Team who takes the honours.
More information is available on the Treasure Hunt page on this website. Please note the change in dates and please review the general guidelines for participating. As we believe many discovered last year, this is a difficult, grueling and time-consuming SuperQuiz, perhaps the most difficult ever devised in Sherlockian/Watsonian history. Join in and have fun! Check back here for upcoming information over the next several months.
Our members from Seattle’s Sound of the Baskervilles, and intrepid Quiz Team, Margie Deck “Gwen” and Sheila Holtgrieve “Daisy” have devised a fascinating quiz for our members. It is all about unpublished Canonical stories and events.
Please send your answers to “Daisy” and “Gwen” at: thepawkypuzzler@yahoo.com
Margie and Sheila will answer you and will post the correct answers next week as a comment to this post. Thanks very much to each of you for filling the Quiz hiatus with a wonderful test of knowledge!
The Quiz
SOB TEAM/Sheila “Daisy” and Margie “Gwen”
The Untold Tales
All questions relate to the untold tales mentioned in the canon.
All answers must include the story where the mention is found.
Scoring is five points for each correct answer; bonus question #20 is worth ten points due to the dual nature of the question.
One extra point per question will be awarded for including the correct page number from Buttons’ venerable 1930 Doubleday Edition.
Flowers, anyone?
RESULTS: Denny Dobry has done excellent research and has sent a veritable catalogue of flowers and flowering plants in the Canon. He is 21/21 for this week’s quiz honours. Margie Deck and Sheila Holtgrieve also submitted more than was asked and had a perfect 21/21 in the Team Category. Elinor Hickey came close and added to the solutions. Well Done, all! Answers are below:
This week’s quiz has to do with Canonical character inferences. Enjoy!
RESULTS: A high participation quiz! Five members with 7/7 and all receive the week’s honours:
Michele Lopez “Reggie;” Michael Ellis “Lobo;” Melissa Anderson “Faith;” Denny Dobry “Kirby;” and our Team: Sheila Holtgrieve “Daisy” and Margie Deck “Gwen.”
Congratulations! Well Done!
Answers below:
Everyone did so well on the palindromes last week, here is one more. Good Luck!
RESULTS: The honours go to Denny Dobry “Kirby” with 25 points; Melissa Anderson “Faith” with 25 points; Dean Trunbloom “Stoker;” and our Team SOBs Margie Deck “Gwen” and Sheila Holtgrieve “Daisy” with 25 points.
ANSWER: Sherlock Holmes and Nero Wolfe = e-o and o-e, a palindrome of vowels frontwards and backwards.
The Weekly Quiz is all about palindrome forms. You’re going to love this one!
Results: Excellent participation this week from Denny Dobry “Kirby,” with 25 points, James O’Leary “Pippin” and Elinor Hickey “Misty” coming next, and Team SOB with Margie Deck “Gwen” and Sheila Holtdrieve “Daisy” with 25 points. Congratulations all!
Questions and answers can be downloaded below:
Here is the weekly quiz for the fourth week of 2014. It is all about place names. Please submit solutions to buttons@johnhwatsonsociety.com by 12 N on Wednesday, 29 January 2014.
RESULTS: Great participation this week. The honours for perfect performance of 25/25 + 5 = 30 points go to Denny Dobry “Kirby,” Michael Ellis “Lobo,” Kenneth Siarkiewicz “Cooper,” and our never-to-be-stumped team of Margie Deck “Gwen,” and Sheila Holtgrieve “Daisy.” Congratulations to all!
Please download the questions and answers below.
