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WorksheetsHistory of Forensic Science QUIZ
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 3600secs
Records show a coroner from which country used forensic science to solve a murder in the 3rd century?
England
United States
China
Japan
Recorded notes about fingerprint characteristics but didn't realize their capability to be used as identification.
Galton
Bertillon
Gross
Malpighi
Developed a test to detect arsenic in dead bodies.
Orfila
Scheel
Ross
Marsh
Developed a test to detect arsenic in a victim's stomach.
Scheel
Marsh
Orfila
Ross
Who is called the "Father of Forensic Toxicology"?
Ross
Scheel
Orfila
Marsh
Who was the first person to use forensic evidence in court?
Marsh
Ross
Scheel
Orfila
Who is known as the "Father of personal identification"?
Marsh
Bertillon
Orfila
McCrone
Who published a book about the study and use of fingerprints as personal identification?
Bertillon
Galton
Gross
McCrone
Who wrote the first book about how scientific principles could be used in criminal investigations?
Gross
Galton
Bertillon
Marsh
Who created Sherlock Holmes?
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
His parents
Alphonse Bertillon
Shakespeare
Who discovered that blood could be grouped into different categories?
Lattes
Landsteiner
McCrone
Orfilia
Who developed the fundamental principles of document examination?
Osborn
McCrone
Bertillon
Orfilia
Who started the first police laboratory in Lyon, France?
Holmes
Bertillon
Locard
Watson
Who developed a procedure to determine the blood type (A, B, AB, O) from a dried bloodstain?
Galton
Landsteiner
Lattes
Gross
Who greatly increased the use of microscopes to examine evidence?
Galton
McCrone
Goddard
Bertillon
Who used a comparison microscope to examine ballistic evidence?
Gross
Garza
Goddard
Galton
Who developed the first DNA profile test?
Bertillon
Watson & Crick
Jeffreys
Locard
Where was the first police crime lab in the world located?
England
United States
France
Japan
Who's exchange principle says that whenever two things come into contact, there is a cross transfer of evidence?
Orfilia
Bertillon
Locard
Galton
Whose identification system was made up of several body measurements?
Orfila
Holmes
Galton
Bertillon
