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Forensic Science
Trivia Questions
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The color of body after the death
changes. What is the process called?
a. Sammie
b. Ballistics
Morgue
d. Secretor
c.
What is polygraph test used
for?
a. AIDS
b. Typhoid
Lies
d. Hemoglobin
c.
D.N.A. is used in which of the
following cases?
a. Natural and paternal disputes
b. Convicting felons
Medical diagnostics
d. All of the above
c.
This substance has the capacity to
kill in small doses. What is it?
a. Salt
b. Toxin
Sodium
d. Potassium
c.
What is the distance between
the opposite lands in a firearm
called?
a. Grooves
b. Lands
Firing pin
d. Caliber
c.
Which one of the following are
the basic fingerprint patterns?
a. Scar, whorl and loop
b. Whorl, loop and arch
Scar, loop and arch
d. Tent, scar and loop
c.
Which of the following parameters
are studied for a polygraph test?
a. Breathing
b. Pulse
Galvanic skin response
d. All of the above
c.
Who is recognized for the
development of the fundamental
principles of document examination?
a. Mathieu Orfila
b. Francis Galton
Albert S. Osborn
d. Leone Lattes
c.
Deoxyribonucleic acid is
normally shortened to what?
a. Finger printing
b. Hair samples
Fiber
d. D.N.A.
c.
What is the study of teeth?
a. Entomology
b. Anthropology
Odontology
d. Pathology
c.
What do entomologist study?
a. Teeth
b. Insects
Bones
d. Weapons
c.
What chemical makes latent
finger prints visible?
a. Morphine
b. Mescaline
Ninhydrin
d. Cytosine
c.
What does toxicology mean?
a. Insects
b. Acid
Drugs and alcohol
d. blood
c.
The suture which joins the
frontal bone with the parietal
bone is called ________.
a. Sphenoid suture
b. Coronal suture
Frontotemporal suture
d. Occipito mastoid suture
c.
What is the stiffening of body
after death called?
a. Rigor mortis
b. Liver mortis
Ballistics
d. Secretor
c.
Finger prints are formed by:
a. Ridges on the skin
b. Veins under the skin
Nerves in the skin
d. Blood vessels in the skin
c.
When examining a suspected death
due to bullet or electric current, an
investigator looks for two kinds of
wounds on a body. What are they?
a. Lesions ad cutis
b. Scratches and bruises
Entry wound and exit wound
d. Rigor mortis and liver mortis
c.
Which is the hardest and
strongest part of the body?
a. Femur
b. Humerus
Teeth
d. Muscles
c.
Why is autopsy or post
mordem examination of a
body conducted?
a. To determine the time and cause of death
b. To find the culprit
To identify the victim
d. To establish the intention of the murder
c.
A tearing wound due to a blunt
object is called:
a. Incised wound
b. Abrasion
Laceration
d. Contusion
c.
Which of the following systems is used
by the American Federal Bureau of
Investigation to store fingerprint data?
a. P300 based system
b. P30 based system
D9/7 wavelet – based system
d. None of the above
c.
The term caliber is used to:
a. Indicate the groove between two lands of a
firearms
b. Indicate the number of lead balls of the
diameter of the bore that equal 1 pound
c. Indicate the diameter of a bullet in
hundredths of an inch
d. Indicate spiraling grooves that are cut into
a barrel
What is the longest, strongest,
and hardest bone in the
human body?
a. Teeth
b. Femur
Ulna
d. Spine
c.
What technique is used in
fingerprint identification?
a. Superglue fuming
b. Look and compare
Entomology
d. Odontology
c.
Forensic anthropology: Wormian
bones are commonly found in which
type of population?
a. Caucasian
b. African
Latin
d. Asian
c.