Some sample questions from "1000 Crime Quiz"

1.Who offered to set up, at his own expense, a fingerpint bureau at Scotland Yard, but whose offer was rejected in favour of the Bertillon system?

Sir Francis Galton
William Herschel
Dr. Henry Faulds
Sir Edward Richard Henry
 (This is question number 216 from page 32)
 

2. The odds against two similar pubic hairs originating from two different individuals are about

800 to 1
5000 to 1
100,000 to 1
one billion to one
 (This is question number 265 from page 40)
 

3. A jacket belonging to the victim of a hit-and-run accident has been brought to a forensic scientist. Examination in which light is likely to be most helpful?

Ultraviolet light
infrared light
fluorescent light
Tungsten light
 (This is question number 281 from page 43)
 

4. How do doctors determine if a person was burnt when he was alive?

Look for the nature of burns
Look for extent of burns
Look for soot in the windpipe
Examine the clothings
 (This is question number 365 from page 56)
 

5. The police brings a dead body to a doctor. He finds ten superficial cuts in the neck and one deep cut. What does he tell the police about the cuts?

They are suicidal
They are homicidal
They are accidental
They are caused by dog bite
  (This is question number 383 from page 58)
 

6. A person enters the house of his friend when the electricity has failed. His friend's wife imagines that her husband has arrived and consents to sexual intercourse. Will this act be rape?

Yes
No
Yes, but only partial rape
Depends if her husband pardons him
 (This is question number 425 from page 65)
 

7. When President Garfield was assassinated, X-rays had not been discovered, so the bullet in his body couldn't be located by X-rays. However an attempt was made to locate the bullet by means of a rudimentary metal detector. Which famous scientist attempted to recover the bullet in this way?

Alexander Graham Bell
Thomas Alva Edison
Sir C.V.Raman
Albert Einstein
 (This is question number 449 from page 69)
 

8. Which famous person was assassinated by a pickaxe?

Reinhard Heydrich
King Ananda of Siam
Ngo Dinh Diem
Leon Trotsky
 (This is question number 456 from page 70)
 

9. What is often nicknamed as 'Old Sparky'?

The criminal who goes to the electric chair
The policeman who straps the criminal to the electric chair
The judge who pronounces the death sentence
The electric chair
 (This is question number 509 from page 77)
 

10. What is the official mode of execution in Spain and Turkey?

Guillotining
Crucifixion
Lethal injection
Garroting
 (This is question number 530 from page 80)
 

11. This stocky, unbecoming woman of 44 murdered her lover's wife and sister-in-law in 1898 with candy poisoned with arsenic. She made the mistake of sending this candy to her lover's wife with a note. Later the handwriting on the note was proved to be hers and thus she was caught. Who was she?

Cordelia Botkin
Edith Carew
Jeannie Donald
Belle Gunness
 (This is question number 537 from page 81)
 

12. Mafia is a well-known criminal organization. What does the acronym MAFIA stand for?

Morte Ai Francesci Italia Agogna
Morte Alla Francia Italia Ancia
Movimento Anti-Francesci Italiano Azione
Any of the above
 (This is question number 582 from page 88)
 

13. Which king is supposed to have licensed prostitutes for the first time in history?

Ashoka
Chandra Gupta
Kuang Chung
Rameses II
 (This is question number 585 from page 88)
 

14. Vagitus vaginalis is

a male child with a vagina
a female child without a vagina
crying of a child when within the vagina of the mother
the smiling of a child immediately after delivery
 (This is question number 615 from page 93)
 

15. DINA is the name of the secret police of which country?

Brazil
Chile
Uganda
Turkey
 (This is question number 627 from page 95)
 

16. Who was the master spy for Napoleon?

Eric Erickson
Banda
Karl Schulmeister
Guy Forget
 (This is question number 640 from page 97)
 

17. Who was the founder of the French Criminal Police?

Alphonse Bertillon
Tardieu
Eugène-François Vidocq
Dr. Milton Helpern
 (This is question number 818 from page 126)
 

18. The 1944 film The Suspect was based on which real life murderer?

Hawley Harvey Crippen
William Burke Kirwan
Stratton brothers
Robert Franklin Stroud
 (This is question number 916 from page 141)
 

19. Some murderers dumped their victim's body in their car and sped away in the night. In the morning, the police found a trail of blood, each spot of which was looking like the one shown below. Which direction have the murderers gone in?

North
South
East
West
 (This is question number 985 from page 154. N.B. In the original book, in the picture quiz section, the traditional four choices did not appear. The readers had just to provide the answer themselves. However in keeping with the pattern of the rest of the questions in this sample quiz here, I am providing choices for these last two questions. These two questions come from picture quiz section)
 

20. What do the shaded areas in this picture show?

Sign that the person fell on his back and died
Signs of decomposition
Signs of beating
blueness of the body developing after death
 (This is question number 996 from page 158)
 

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