The Hound of the Baskervilles Quizzes

Think you’ve got your head wrapped around The Hound of the Baskervilles? Put your knowledge to the test. Good luck — the Stickman is counting on you!
Q. Who talks like this: "Would you have any objection to my running my finger along your parietal fissure? A cast of your skull, sir, until the original is available, would be an ornament to any anthropological museum. It is not my intention to be fulsome, but I confess that I covet your skull" (1.56)?


Doctor Watson
Doctor Mortimer
Doctor Who
Doctor Phil
Q. Name the "cold and cruel-hearted man" in this passage: "Somewhere in the heart of the great Grimpen Mire, down in the foul slime of the huge morass which had sucked him in, this cold and cruel-hearted man is forever buried" (14.80)


Mr. Stapleton
Selden the convict
Mr. Frankland
Don't know—I got distracted by the "foul slime of the huge morass" part
Q. When Watson first hears a moaning howl over the moors, who tells him "the peasants say it is the Hound of the Baskervilles calling for its prey. I've heard it once or twice before, but never quite so loud" (7.72)?


Mr. Stapleton
Mr. Frankland
Mr. Barrymore
Cesar Millan, Dog Whisperer
Q. Whom does Sir Henry meet out on the moors when Watson spies on him?


Mrs. Barrymore
Laura Lyons
Beryl Stapleton
Keira Knightley
Q. Identify the "him" in this passage: "The brute! The brute!" I cried with clenched hands. "Oh Holmes, I shall never forgive myself for having left him to his fate" (12.81)


Sir Henry Baskerville
Sir Charles Baskerville
Sir Elton John
Sir Mick Jagger (we're not making this up)