Crime Scene Investigation (CSI)
100: This type of evidence, which includes items like hair strands and fabric fibers, is small in size but can link a suspect to a crime scene.
What is trace evidence?
100: These three types of fingerprint patterns—found in varying frequencies in the human population—are essential in classifying fingerprint types.
What are loops, whorls, and arches?
100: Forensic toxicology is the field of study that examines chemicals, poisons, and drugs in biological systems to determine their role in illnesses or death.
Answer: What is forensic toxicology?
100: This double-stranded molecule, whose structure was discovered by Watson and Crick, carries genetic information in living organisms.
What is DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid)?
100: This unidentified serial killer terrorized the Whitechapel district of London in 1888, leaving a series of unsolved murders behind.
Who is Jack the Ripper?
200: Investigators wear these items on their hands to prevent contaminating a crime scene with foreign prints or biological material.
What are latex gloves?
200: This dark, fine substance, often black or white, is applied to surfaces to reveal latent fingerprints by adhering to sweat and oils.
What is fingerprint powder?
200: This breath-based test, commonly used by law enforcement, measures the amount of ethanol vapor in an individual’s breath to estimate blood alcohol concentration.
Answer: What is a Breathalyzer test?
200: This cellular structure, containing an organism's entire genetic code, is the primary source of nuclear DNA in forensic analysis.
What is the nucleus?
200: This former NFL player was famously acquitted of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman in a 1995 Los Angeles trial.
Who is O.J. Simpson?
300: This technique involves carefully drawing lines and recording the exact location of each piece of evidence at a crime scene, often creating a digital or physical map.
What is crime scene mapping or diagramming?
300: This type of fingerprint is visible to the naked eye because it results from a transfer of substances like blood, ink, or grease.
What is a patent fingerprint?
300: Known for its deadly properties, this substance, found in certain pesticides and rat poisons, has historically been used in criminal poisoning cases.
Answer: What is arsenic?
300: DNA profiles in forensics are built by analyzing these short, repeating sequences in non-coding regions of the DNA strand.
What are STRs (Short Tandem Repeats)?
300: This infamous cult leader orchestrated a series of brutal murders in 1969, targeting high-profile victims in Los Angeles.
Who is Charles Manson?
400: The first priority upon arrival at a crime scene is to block off the area with barriers to prevent tampering with evidence or unwanted entry.
What is securing the perimeter of the crime scene?
400: The analysis of fingerprint details and patterns for identification is part of this forensic science discipline.
What is dactyloscopy?
400: Toxicologists frequently analyze these two bodily fluids, as they can retain traces of drugs or toxins long after exposure.
Answer: What are blood and urine samples?
400: This extensive database of DNA profiles, managed by the FBI, assists in identifying suspects and matching profiles from crime scenes.
What is CODIS (Combined DNA Index System)? This one is kind-of impossible so ill js give u the pts
400: This domestic terrorist, whose real name is Ted Kaczynski, carried out a series of bombings across the United States, targeting universities and airlines.
Who is the Unabomber? (you get half pts if u get it wrong; its too hard)
500: This forensic specialty examines the behavior of projectiles from firearms, including bullet paths and effects on targets, to help reconstruct a shooting.
What is forensic ballistics?
500: This technique, using superglue fumes in a controlled environment, helps develop latent fingerprints on items like glass and plastic.
What is cyanoacrylate fuming?
500: This analytical technique, often abbreviated as GC-MS, is highly accurate in detecting even trace levels of drugs, poisons, and other chemicals in biological samples.
Answer: What is gas chromatography-mass spectrometry?
500: This type of DNA, found in the cell’s mitochondria, is inherited exclusively from the mother, making it useful in tracing maternal lineage.
What is mitochondrial DNA?
500: Convicted in part due to bite mark evidence, this serial killer confessed to the murders of more than 30 young women across several states in the 1970s.
Who is Ted Bundy?