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About This Quiz
If you listened to Josh and Chuck's trifecta of shows about crime scenes, then you should clean up on this quiz. What did you learn about blood spatter, photography and cleanup?
What is the preferred industry term for crime scene cleanup?
hazard cleaning
scene restoration
CTS decon
To be honest, "hazard cleaning" kind of nails it, but "crime and trauma scene decontamination" is the industry term for crime scene cleanup.
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Who invented the mug shot?
Cecil B. Demille
Orson Welles
Alphonse Bertillon
If you fell for Orson Welles, we don't blame you -- sounds like something he would do. But in fact, it was crime scene photographer Alphonse Bertillon.
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True or False: Crime scene photographers use inexpensive point-and-shoot cameras.
True
Those fancy SLRs cameras are used too, but the bulk of crime scene photography is done with simple-to-use, point-and-shoot cameras.
False
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In crime scene cleanup, bodily fluids are classified as what?
class II waste
biohazard
Bodily fluids are classified as biohazards, and here's a word of advice -- stay away from whatever "class II waste" is.
liquid waste material (LWM)
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When a dry bit of blood spatter flakes and falls from a wall, it leaves a lone red ring. What is this known as?
skeletonized drop
Don't get carried away here. Remember that we said dry drops tend to skeletonize on walls.
red death
ring of death
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A photo showing the key piece of evidence in context of the murder scene is known as what?
the Pulitzer
money shot
mid-range shot
Again, it's best to leave sensationalism to crime scene TV shows. A good mid-range shot shows the murder weapon in context of the scene as a whole.
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True or False: Blood droplets dry from the inside out.
True
False
False. If we're talking blood droplets, we're talking about some outside-in drying.
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What is an important trait for a crime scene cleanup worker to have?
hard heart
sympathy
You can always use good penmanship, but many times, grieving families are there when the cleanup happens. This makes sympathy a required trait.
penmanship
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Why does blood always travel in spherical drops?
surface tension
Blood molecules are very cohesive, so they squeeze against each other until they form a shape with the smallest area possible. That's called surface tension, my friend.
gravity
the law of spheres
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Latent fingerprints are likely to be photographed how?
in black and white
Color photography is almost always used at crime scenes, but sometimes black and white really captures the moment when it comes to fingerprints.
with a medium format camera
from an 45-degree angle
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What is a fogger used for in crime scene cleanup?
to get chemical disinfectants into tight spaces
Sometimes a fogger is used to get into tight spots like air ducts. And after hours you can always use it to rock the house.
to blanket the entire room in chemical disinfectant
to rock the house
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Early crime scene photographers were known to do what?
doctor evidence to implicate minorities
change the scene to get a better looking shot
Sadly, all of these answers could be true. But in this case photographers were known to change the scene around in order to achieve a more artistic result.
steal and then sell famous murder weapons
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Upon drying, what does brain matter do?
softens and becomes extremely sticky
hardens into a cementlike substance
You better bring that putty knife if you want to scrape dried brains from the wall of a crime scene. Brain matter becomes hard like cement.
shrinks to half its size
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What New York crime scene photographer became a famous artist in the early 1940s?
Andy "The Weasel" Calimari
Arturo "On the Scene" Bugatti
Arthur "Weegee" Fellig
Crime scene photographer Arthur Fellig staged art showings called "Weegee: Murder is my Business" in New York City in 1941.
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If the force of impact of a blood droplet is less than 5 feet per second or less, it's known as what?
spittle spatter
passive spatter
low-velocity spatter
Boy do we wish it was called "spittle spatter." Oh well. We'll have to settle on the more dull "low velocity spatter."
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Blood impressions made by objects or caused by movement are known as what?
smears
transfers
If an object, like a weapon, makes a blood stain, it's called a transfer. The same can be said if it was rubbed on a wall by the killer's pants leg.
secondary spatter
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A high-velocity blood spatter travels how fast?
more than 100 feet per second
When it comes to gunshot wounds and other kinds of high-velocity spatter, the blood moves at more than 100 feet per second.
more than 150 feet per second
more than 500 feet per second
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What happens to the body's organs during decomposition?
become hard like cement
digest themselves
One of the nastiest facets of decomposition is that the organs actually digest themselves.
shrink to half their size
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What movie was inspired by the work of crime scene photographer Arthur "Weegee" Fellig?
"The Black Dahlia"
"Kiss of Death"
"The Naked City"
Fellig's photo essay entitled "Naked City" inspired the 1947 movie of the same name.
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True or false: By law, all incorporated towns in the United States must have at least one dedicated crime scene photographer.
True
False
Not so! Smaller towns most likely do not have a full-time crime scene photographer. This duty can fall to a number of different responders.
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You Got:
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