Stephen Fry on QI, religion, knowledge and why Sherlock Holmes was wrong "The beauty of the brain is that you can be as greedy as you like for knowledge and it doesn’t show" 14. It is a shocking habit,—destructive to the logical faculty.” – Sherlock Holmes. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (1893) Inspector Gregory and Sherlock Holmes in "Silver Blaze" (Doubleday p. 346-7) Top 10 #10: They were the footprints of a gigantic hound! What is Sherlock's brothers name? How much do you know about the best sleuth ever? Data! Quizzes | Create a quiz Progress: 1 of 15 questions . He pored over the history books for his Micah Clarke, Sir Nigel and The White Company and did the same for the dinosaurs in his The Lost World. He said that there were no traces upon the ground round the body. “Eliminate all other factors, and the one which remains must be the truth.” – Sherlock Holmes. Published in 2016, “IQ” is the first in a series of four novels inspired by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes novels from Southern California-based author Joe Ide. 11. All those plots for Sherlock Holmes, Brigadier Gerard, Professor Challenger and his other fiction. There are 23 ejaculations in total, with 11 belonging to Watson. Since Sherlock is centered around geniuses, I might as well rank the characters by intelligence: 1: Sherlock Holmes (IQ: 230 - 265) Extra note: When Mary shoots Sherlock, he thinks in his mind palace for what seems to us as 5 minutes. Eurus was heavily fictionalized. The real time was 3 seconds, so I determine that his mind moves 900 times faster than a normal human. The Sherlock Holmes Quiz. Data! Dear Holmes mysteries are written by a carefully selected group of modern Sherlock Holmes writers (our mystery makers) and edited by MX Publishing, the world's largest specialist Sherlock Holmes publisher, in collaboration with Letterjoy. "But one false statement was made by Barrymore at the inquest. – Sherlock Holmes. He did not observe any. And Isaiah Quintabe, the protagonist of Joe Ide's debut novel, IQ, is a Sherlock for a very specific neighborhood: South Central L.A. First off, a few things I love about this. “Data! “I never guess. 12. 13. “There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.” – Sherlock Holmes. She had extraordinary abilities that couldn’t exist within a person right now. Batalha de QI - Sherlock Holmes vs L. Lawliet ... Sherlock Holmes descreve-se como um "detetive consultor", o que significa que as pessoas vêm-lhe pedir conselhos sobre os seus problemas, ao invés de se dirigir a elas. I was watching the brilliant (to my mind) BBC-TV program “QI” (the acronym stands for “quite interesting”), when the inimitable host Stephen Fry shared with all the following comment: “Watson ‘ejaculates’ twice as often as Sherlock Holmes in Conan Doyle’s stories. A sua especialidade é resolver enigmas singulares, usando a sua extrema faculdade de observação e dedução.