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History of Forensic Science QUIZ

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 3600secs

Name
Class
Date
1.

Records show a coroner from which country used forensic science to solve a murder in the 3rd century?

a)

England

b)

United States

c)

China

d)

Japan

2.

Recorded notes about fingerprint characteristics but didn't realize their capability to be used as identification.

a)

Galton

b)

Bertillon

c)

Gross

d)

Malpighi

3.

Developed a test to detect arsenic in dead bodies.

a)

Orfila

b)

Scheel

c)

Ross

d)

Marsh

4.

Developed a test to detect arsenic in a victim's stomach.

a)

Scheel

b)

Marsh

c)

Orfila

d)

Ross

5.

Who is called the "Father of Forensic Toxicology"?

a)

Ross

b)

Scheel

c)

Orfila

d)

Marsh

6.

Who was the first person to use forensic evidence in court?

a)

Marsh

b)

Ross

c)

Scheel

d)

Orfila

7.

Who is known as the "Father of personal identification"?

a)

Marsh

b)

Bertillon

c)

Orfila

d)

McCrone

8.

Who published a book about the study and use of fingerprints as personal identification?

a)

Bertillon

b)

Galton

c)

Gross

d)

McCrone

9.

Who wrote the first book about how scientific principles could be used in criminal investigations?

a)

Gross

b)

Galton

c)

Bertillon

d)

Marsh

10.

Who created Sherlock Holmes?

a)

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

b)

His parents

c)

Alphonse Bertillon

d)

Shakespeare

11.

Who discovered that blood could be grouped into different categories?

a)

Lattes

b)

Landsteiner

c)

McCrone

d)

Orfilia

12.

Who developed the fundamental principles of document examination?

a)

Osborn

b)

McCrone

c)

Bertillon

d)

Orfilia

13.

Who started the first police laboratory in Lyon, France?

a)

Holmes

b)

Bertillon

c)

Locard

d)

Watson

14.

Who developed a procedure to determine the blood type (A, B, AB, O) from a dried bloodstain?

a)

Galton

b)

Landsteiner

c)

Lattes

d)

Gross

15.

Who greatly increased the use of microscopes to examine evidence?

a)

Galton

b)

McCrone

c)

Goddard

d)

Bertillon

16.

Who used a comparison microscope to examine ballistic evidence?

a)

Gross

b)

Garza

c)

Goddard

d)

Galton

17.

Who developed the first DNA profile test?

a)

Bertillon

b)

Watson & Crick

c)

Jeffreys

d)

Locard

18.

Where was the first police crime lab in the world located?

a)

England

b)

United States

c)

France

d)

Japan

19.

Who's exchange principle says that whenever two things come into contact, there is a cross transfer of evidence?

a)

Orfilia

b)

Bertillon

c)

Locard

d)

Galton

20.

Whose identification system was made up of several body measurements?

a)

Orfila

b)

Holmes

c)

Galton

d)

Bertillon