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100

Who is the famous "unsolved" serial killer from London in the 1800s?

Who is Jack the Ripper?

100

What is the word for clues or items collected from a crime scene?

What is evidence?

100

What documentary features two brothers who committed first-degree murder in 1966

What is The Menendez Brothers?

100

What does DNA stand for?

What is Deoxyribonucleic Acid?

100

True or False: A person's ear shape can be used like a fingerprint.

What is true?

200

What killer was caught partly because of his teeth marks?

Who is Ted Bundy?

200

What do you call a scientific test done to prove something is true?

What is an analysis?

200

What movie features a famous detective, who solves crimes using science? (HINT: RDJ and Benedict Cumberpatch played this character)

Who is Sherlock Holmes?

200

What blood type is known as the universal donor?

What is O negative?

200

What tiny insects can help tell how long someone has been dead?

What are flies (or maggots)?

300

What is the most famous unsolved murder case?

What is the Black Dahlia Murder?

300

What is the word for a person who helps solve crimes by looking at clues?

What is a detective?

300

What TV show popularized forensic science on TV with the city Las Vegas?

What is CSI?

300

What specific parts of the body have DNA?

What are hair, blood, skin, and saliva?

300

True or False: You can get a fingerprint from a potato.

What is true?

400

What famous trial in the 1990s involved a white Bronco car chase?

What is the O.J. Simpson trial?

400

What is the name of the legal process where a witness tells what they saw?

What is testimony?

400

Which movie features a forensic expert who can read bones to solve crimes?

What is Bones?

400

What do you call the little drops or spots of blood at a crime scene?

What is blood splatter?

400

What parts of the body keeps growing for a short time after death?

What are fingernails and hair?

500

What kind of clue helped catch the "Unabomber"?

What is handwriting or writing style (linguistic evidence)?

500

What do you call a person who provides detailed information under oath about a crime they witnessed?

What is an eyewitness or a witness testimony?

500

What movie features a detective who uses forensic entomology (bugs) to solve a case? (HINT: It's also a book written by Thomas Harris and has an animal in the title)

What is The Silence of the Lambs?

500

What part of blood carries oxygen to the body and makes blood red?

What is hemoglobin?

500

What part of a person's eye can be scanned after death to help identify them?

What is the iris?