Fingerprinting Quiz (Multiple Choice)- Rosselli Forensics

Who verified that fingerprints do not change with age?

• Dr. Nehemiah Grew

• Sir Francis Galton

• Sir William Herschel

• Jan Evangelist Purkyn

What percent of latent prints at a crime scene come from the palm or side of the hand?

• 10-20

• 20-30

• 30-40

• 40-50

Actual indentations left in some soft material such as clay, putty, or wax is which type of fingerprint?

• Latent

• Patent

• Plastic

• None of the above

Pudd’nhead Wilson is a lawyer created by Mark Twain in the novel of the same name, published in November of 1894. In his final address to a jury, Lawyer Wilson exhibits his knowledge of the cutting edge technology of the day by referring to:

• fingerprints as forensic evidence

• firearms as forensic evidence

• blood stains as forensic evidence

• None of these choices

• All of these choices

In western culture, the earliest record of the study of the patterns on human hands comes from:

• 1884

• 1784

• 1684

• 1634

Fingerprint collection began in 1856 by:

• Sir Archibald Hershey

• Sir William Herschel

• Lady Willamina Herschey

• Sir Leroy Hersch

In 1879, the assistant clerk in the records office at the police station in Paris created a way to identify criminals. The system was first used in 1883 to identify repeat offenders. The name of the clerk who invented the system was:

• Sir William Herschel

• Sir William Herschey

• Alphonse Bertillon

• Alphonse Herschel

In 1888, Sir Francis Galton, along with Sir E.R. Henry developed the classification system for fingerprints that is still in use today in:

• England and France

• England and the United States

• the United States and Europe

• England and Germany

Beginning in 1896, Sir Edmund Richard Henry, with the help of two colleagues, created a system that divided fingerprint records into groups based on whether they have:

• an arch

• a whorl

• a loop pattern

• a&b

• all of these choices

The imprint of a fingerprint consists of natural secretions of the sweat glands that are present:

• in the friction ridge of the skin

• on the surface of the skin

• just under the surface of the skin

• under the friction ridge of the skin