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Ridgeology
Potpourri
100
The first country to have a documented use of fingerprints
What is China
100
The three categories of fingerprints
What are arches, loops, and whorls
100
AFIS stands for...
What is Automated Fingerprint Identification System
100
What is the point where ridge structures change in fingerprints?
What is minutiae
100
What animal hair is most commonly used for fingerprint brushes?
What is camel hair
200
Who is the Father of Fingerprinting?
Who is Alphonse Bertillon
200
A fingerprint pattern in which the ridge pattern originates from one side of the print and leaves from the other side
What is an ARCH
200
How many points minimum are required for a match in the United States and the UK?
What is 12
200
A triangular ridge pattern with ridges that go in different directions above and below a triangle.
What is DELTA
200
What can be dusted to reveal fingerprints on shiny surfaces?
What is magnetic (latent) powder
300
The location of a bombing where a partial print was found to wrongfully accuse Brandon Mayfield in 2004
What is Madrid, Spain?
300
What type of fingerprint does the highest percentage (65%) of the population have?
What is a LOOP
300
A hidden fingerprint made visible through the use of powders or other techniques
What is a latent print
300
The two types of arches
What is Radial and ulnar
300
What type of shape is this?
What is tented arch
400
What is the international standard number of points of identification to confirm a match?
What is no standard
400
A fingerprint pattern in which the ridge pattern flows inward and returns in the direction of the origin.
What is LOOP
400
The official name for the process using superglue to reveal latent prints
What is cyanoacrylate fuming
400
What are the two patterns that make up fingerprints?
What are ridges and valleys
400
Name this fingerprint
What is accidental whorl
500
In 1892, Juan Vucetich used fingerprints to exonerate Eduardo Alvarez of double infanticide in this country
What is Argentina
500
The four types of whorls
What is central pocket, plain, double loop, and accidental
500
The chemical that bonds to amino acids in fingerprints and produces a purple or blue color
What is ninhydrin?
500
What is the name for the study of fingerprint identification?
Dactylography
500
Name this fingerprint
What is central pocket whorl