Quiz session on FB group Quiz-Wiz

1. The Music of Sherlock
Holmes
QM: ANIRBAN BISWAS
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2. Teatro alla Scala is
an opera house in
the Italian city of
Naples.
Built in 1787, the
theater has since
housed all the opera
greats.
Which Sherlockian
character was a
performer here?
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3. Irene Adler
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4. In Adventure of Mazarin Stone, Sherlock Holmes
tricked Count Negretto Silvius by playing
‘Hoffmann’s Barcarolle’ on gramophone.
Barcarolles are folk songs or music, sung by men
doing a certain job.
People from which particular profession,
traditionally sing barcarolles?
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5. The gondoliers of Venice
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6. I was born in Renaissance
Belgium and was a contemporary
of Michelangelo.
I was kidnapped three times in
my lifetime for my beautiful
voice.
In the Bruce-Partington Plan,
Sherlock Holmes wrote a
monograph about my polyphonic
motets, which is said by experts
to be the last word on the subject.
Who am I?
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7. Orlande de Lassus
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8. Italian violinist Nicolo Pagnini
is generally considered the
greatest master of that
instrument ever lived.
In one story, Sherlock Holmes
shared ‘anecdote after
anecdote’ from Pagnini’s life
with Dr Watson over a bottle of
claret.
Which story I am talking
about?
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9. The Cardboard Box
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10. “Lieder ohne Worte” (Songs without words) is a
series of short piano pieces written between 1829
and 1845.
In A Study in Scarlet, we found Sherlock Holmes
playing this to Dr Watson upon his request.
Who was the composer?
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11. Felix Mendelssohn
(1806-47)
The German pianist
and composer of the
Romantic age.
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12. Classical music found a lot of
mention in the Sherlock
Holmes canon, but there are
exceptions too.
Like in The Valley of Fear,
John McMurdo used to sing
two folk songs of Irish
descent.
If one of them is “I’m Sitting
on the Stile, Mary”, what’s the
other?
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13. “By the Banks of Allan Water”
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14. Les Huguenots was a French opera by Giacomo
Meyerbeer. One of the spectacular example of a grand
opera, it premiered in Paris in1836.
At the end of which adventure, Sherlock Holmes wishes
to spend the evening seeing Les Huguenots?
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15. The Hound of the
Baskervilles
It was also revealed that
Holmes maintains a box
for The Huguenots.
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16. I am the only client of Mr. Sherlock Holmes with
a musical connection.
My father used to conduct for the old Imperial
Theater. After his death, I started teaching
music.
I visited Mr. Holmes on an April evening of 1895.
Who am I?
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17. Violet Smith
From the story The
Solitary Cyclist.
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18. What is common to:
Messiah, Molitor, Hellier, Ole Bull, Jupiter, Soil,
Lady Blunt and Jules Falk.
(The list is not an exhaustive one)
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19. All are the nicknames of
violins made by Antonio
Stradivari.
Holmes himself owns a
Strad, which he had bought
for 45 shillings from a
London pawn shop.
The 1697 make Molitor Stradivarius, which is said to be
owned by Napoleon Bonaparte.
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20. Sherlock Holmes is an
accomplished violinist, but some of
the Holmes experts think that he
got his training in an unacademic
way.
According to them, Holmes could
have learned from the gypsies or
he had visited India for the
purpose.
Which observation made them
think so?
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21. In many instances Sherlock
Holmes played his Stradivarius,
keeping it upon the knee.
A style, which is seen either
among the gypsy community or
in the Indian subcontinent.
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22. In the story A Scandal in
Bohemia, Irene Adler was
introduced as an opera
singer.
In which operatic voice,
Irene Adler sings?
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23. Contralto
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24. In Mazarin Stone (1921), Sherlock Holmes
played violin on a gramophone, when his
adversaries believed Holmes was playing
himself.
Some of the Holmes expert think it was a
phonograph, that Doyle meant. And not
certainly a gramophone.
Why?
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25. Because in 1921, home recording was not
possible using a gramophone record.
The only option for Holmes to record his own
violin was a phonograph.
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26. We see Sherlock Holmes
planning to visit Ms
Norman-Neruda in A Study
in Scarlet.
Wilhelmina Neruda was
often thought to be the best
female violinist ever born.
Music of which composer she
was playing in the story?
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27. Frédéric Chopin
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28. Pablo de Sarasate was a
Basque composer and
violinist.
In which Sherlock Holmes
story, we see Holmes and
Watson to attend one of his
concert?
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29. The Red Headed League
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30. In The Bruce-Partington Plan, we see
‘Holmes patiently occupied upon a subject
which he had made his hobby.’
Which musical subject, Dr Watson was
talking about?
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31. Music of Middle Ages
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32. In the Feluda story ‘অপ্সরা থিয়েটায়রর
মামলা’ we found a mention of Nicolò
Amati.
In which Sherlock Holmes
adventure, Amati was mentioned
for once?
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33. A Study in Scarlet
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