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Fingerprints
History of Mystery
Mystery Elements
Famous Detectives
Cartoon Mysteries
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True or False? You have fingerprints before you are born.
True
100
The origins of mystery and crime been tracked back to what ancient country?
What is Ancient Greece?
100
An excuse that the accused person uses to prove that he/she is innocent.
What is an alibi?
100
This person was the first-ever fictional detective in a mystery
Who is Auguste Dupin?
100
Travels everywhere in the Mystery Machine
Who are Scooby Doo, Shaggy, Velma, Freddie and Daphie?
200
There are how many different types of common fingerprint patterns?
What is 3? Whorl, Loop and Arch
200
Popular mystery series for young teen readers beginning in the 1930s.
Who Nancy Drew and The Hardy Boys
200
This a reason for doing something, especially one that is hidden or not obvious
What is a motive?
200
Arthur Conan Doyle created what master detective to solve crimes using the bizarre scientific methods?
Who is Sherlock Holmes?
200
Bumbling bionic police inspector who stumbles through cases while his niece and dog secretly do the real detective work.
Who is Inspector Gadget?
300
What other body parts have unique prints that cannot be forged?
What are retinal & tongue prints.
300
This person was the first person/poet to write a mystery.
Who is Edgar Allen Poe?
300
A person who could have committed the crime.
What is the suspect?
300
The “hard-boiled” detective who lives in the seamy sides of the city but still managed to solve the cases despite their cynicism.
Who is Philip Marlowe?
300
"Call me, beep me if you wanna reach me."
Who is Kim Possible?
400
What is the science that involves the study and analysis of human body prints?
What is bio-metrics.
400
In 1878, with the publication of "The Leavenworth Case," Anna Katherine Green became the first WHAT to write a detective novel.
What is a woman?
400
Someone who may have seen the crime in progress or may have knowledge of it.
What is the witness?
400
This character was a single elderly woman who lived in a village and solved all mysteries with concentration and her intuition?
Who is Miss Jane Marple?
400
This world famous thief plays cat and mouse with teen ACME detectives, Zack and Ivy while traveling all over the world.
Who is Carmen Sandiego?
500
This is the sticky film of sweat and oil trapped in the ridges left behind when you touch it.
What is a finger print.
500
Usually featuring "a small village setting, a hero with faintly aristocratic family connections, a plethora of red herrings and a tendency to commit homicide with sterling silver letter openers and poisons imported from Paraguay."
What is the cozy style of mystery?
500
Another way to say "misleading clue".
What is red herring?
500
He was created by Dashiell Hammet, and he first appeared in 1930 in the novel "The Maltese Falcon".
Who is Sam Spade?
500
In "Who Framed Roger Rabbit", she said, "I'm not bad, I'm just drawn that way."
Who is Jessica Rabbit