General Awareness: Forensic Scientist Quiz

1. Who wrote the first treatise on the use of scientific methods in the field of criminal investigations?

a) Edmond Locard
b) Paul Jesrich
c) Francis Galton
d) Hans Gross

The correct answer is d) Hans Gross

2. Who was the person that developed fundamental principles of questioned document examination?

a) Paul Uhlenhuth
b) Hans Gross
c) Albert Osborn
d) August Vollmer

The correct answer is c) Albert Osborn

3. Who is considered the father of modern toxicology?

a) Alphonse Bertillon
b) Mathieu Orfila
c) Rudolf Adler
d) Alfred Dreyfus

The correct answer is b) Mathieu Orfila

4. Who is the person that is credited with revolutionizing the field of firearm examination by advancing the use of comparison microscopy?

a) James Marsh
b) William Nichol
c) Edmund Locard
d) Calvin Goddard

The correct answer is d) Calvin Goddard

5. Who studied the use of fingerprints for personal identification as well as developing the methodology for classifying them?

a) Calvin Goddard
b) Francis Galton
c) Walter Specht
d) Leone Lattes

The correct answer is b) Francis Galton

6. Who was the figure who developed a method for determining the ABO blood type of a dried bloodstain?

a) Hans Gross
b) Alfred Dreyfus
c) Paul Jesrich
d) Leone Lattes

The correct answer is d) Leone Lattes

7. Who set up the criminalistics program at the University of California at Berkeley in 1937?

a) Robert Oppenheimer
b) Albert Osborn
c) Walter Specht
d) Paul Kirk

The correct answer is d) Paul Kirk

8. Who developed the acid phosphatase test for semen?

a) Francis Galton
b) Frank Lundquist
c) Edmund Locard
d) Calvin Goddard

The correct answer is b) Frank Lundquist

9. Who first used the services of a scientist at a criminal trial in 1907?

a) Vincent Hnizda
b) Paul Kirk
c) August Vollmer
d) Clarence Darrow

The correct answer is c) August Vollmer

10. Who developed the absorption-elution test for ABO blood typing of stains in 1923?

a) James Marsh
b) Calvin Goddard
c) Vincent Hnizda
d) Vittorio Siracusa

The correct answer is d) Vittorio Siracusa