History
The first man to land on the moon.
Who is Neil Armstrong?
The most venomous continent in the world.
What is Australia?
The word for a person who can write with both hands.
What is Ambidextrous?
The reason a suspect might commit a crime, often critical to solving a case.
What is a motive?
The tallest mountain in the world.
What is Mount Everest?
The second President of the United States.
Who is John Adams?
The name of the longest river in South America.
What is the Amazon River?
The element diamonds are composed of.
What is carbon?
This detective relies on keen observation, logic, and deduction to solve crimes in Victorian London.
Who is Sherlock Holmes?
This country has more lakes than all other countries combined.
What is Canada?
The name of the Ukrainian nuclear power plant that was the site of a nuclear disaster in April 1986.
What is Chernobyl?
This is the only sport that has been played on the moon.
What is golf?
This playwright introduced over 1,700 words into the English language, including “eyeball” and “fashionable.”
Who is Shakespeare ?
In detective work, this term describes proof that a suspect was elsewhere when a crime occurred.
What is an Alibi?
This famous monument can be seen from outer space.
What is the Great wall of China?
The year the 19th Amendment was ratified in the United States, granting women the right to vote.
What is 1920?
The oldest college in the US.
What is Harvard University?
The color of Dorothy's ruby red slippers in the original Wizard of Oz book by L. Frank Baum?
What is Silver?
This term describes a clue or piece of information meant to mislead investigators or readers.
What is a red herring?
This country has the most pyramids in the world.
What is Sudan?
The year the Titanic sank after hitting an iceberg on its maiden voyage.
What is 1912?
Also known as quicksilver, this is the only metal (element) that is liquid at standard temperature and pressure.
What is Mercury?
Archaeologists have found pots of this food in Egyptian tombs that are over 3,000 years old and still edible.
What is honey?
This unidentified serial killer taunted police and newspapers in Northern California in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Who is the Zodiac Killer?
This is the deepest known point in Earth’s oceans, located in the western Pacific.
What is the Mariana Trench?