1. 1980
   1992
2. 2000
   2012

The most sophisticated electronic devices are to be expected at the bureau responsible for national security. However, they did not switch from paper files to computers until 2012. It would have been 2009, but there was a delay due to coding issues.

1. Between 18 and 23
   Between 23 and 37
2. Between 37 and 43
   Between 43 and 55

To become an FBI Special Agent, candidates should be between the ages of 23 and 37 and successfully complete a battery of physical tests, including a timed 300-meter sprint and push-ups.

1. 10,000
   20,000
2. 30,000
   40,000+

The FBI employs nearly 30,000 men and women, including 12,000 special agents. The agency relies on both foreign and domestic intelligence information to aid its anti-terror operations. However, as a law-enforcement authority, the FBI only has jurisdiction in interstate or federal crimes.

1. The file on Marilyn Monroe
   The file on Dick Clark
2. The file on a UFO sighting
   The file on Steve Jobs

The file was an unconfirmed report from an Air Force investigator, which said, "They [the saucers] were described as being circular in shape with raised centers, approximately 50 feet in diameter. Each one was occupied by three bodies of human shape but only 3 feet tall, dressed in metallic cloth of a very fine texture."

1. 1,000 or less
   Approximately 10,000
2. Approximately 50,000
   Approximately 70,000

There are 67,000 or more (there's more added all the time) files available to read in the FBI vault. From music icons and celebrities to organized crime, so many people were investigated by the FBI over the years.

1. A reading room
   A bank vault with recovered valuables
2. A secure room where conversations can't be recorded
   A room that leads to an underground safe room

The FBI vault is a high-tech electronic reading room that houses all kinds of bureau records released under the Freedom of Information Act.

1. 1908
   1930
2. 1940
   1950

The Bureau of Investigation (BOI) was created on July 26, 1908 and was renamed the Federal Bureau of Investigation in 1935.

1. High school graduate
   Bachelor's degree
2. Master's degree
   Doctoral degree

FBI candidates must hold a four-year degree from a college or university accredited by one of the institutional associations recognized by the United States Secretary of Education.

1. Your fingerprints were required to get a job.
   Your fingerprints were required to get a gun.
2. Your fingerprints were required to get a driver’s license.
   All of the above

Yep, the FBI has your fingerprints in their Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System (IAFIS). This database of more than 100 million fingerprints is located in a huge data campus in Clarksburg, West Virginia.

1. Blood samples
   Fingerprints
2. Hair samples
   Murder weapons

More than 5,000 samples of human and animal hair have been collected from crime scenes. Investigators compare the hair to the cataloged hair on file to determine with relative certainty its ethnicity and from which part of the body it came.

1. They examine charred and liquid-soaked documents to try to get information from them.
   They are handwriting experts who work with suicide notes, contested wills and forgeries.
2. They reconstruct shredded documents.
   All of the above

Forensic Document Examiners do all the above as well as decode tire tread and shoe prints and determine various office machines that may have created a document.

1. How heinous the crime was
   The number of people killed during the crime
2. If they have any distinguishing features that could be recognized by the public
   All of the above

They're often chosen based on looks. According to New York Times reporter Michael S. Schmidt, "bureau officials…[try] to select…dangerous fugitives who…could be recognized by the public because they have distinctive physical features," such as a scar, multiple tattoos or a strangely shaped face.

1. No
   Yes
2. It depends on how long ago and what drug was used
   It depends on if you're an alcoholic

If candidates haven't smoked pot for three years or used another illegal drug during the last ten years, they can apply for a position in the FBI.

1. "Let It Be" by the Beatles
   "I Can't Get No Satisfaction" by the Rolling Stones
2. "Louie, Louie" by Richard Berry
   "Take Me Home Country Road" by John Denver

This song was the subject of an FBI investigation that ran for more than two years during the mid-1960s because the FBI were concerned the lyrics were pornographic. Ultimately, the G-Men determined the lyrics were unintelligible.

1. Hummus
   Pita
2. Falafel
   Pomegranates

In 2005 and 2006, FBI checked grocery store records for falafel purchases to find Iranian secret agents. The thought was that a spike in falafel sales, combined with other data, would lead to Iranian secret agents in the south San Francisco-San Jose area.

1. To identify other mafia members
   To infiltrate the Klu Klux Klan
2. To become a drug dealer and provide information on drops
   To get information on cops who would take bribes

He was used to get information on the murders of three civil rights activists by the KKK using extrajudicial methods. He attained the location of the bodies by pistol whipping a Klansman and putting a gun in his mouth.

1. "Cleopatra"
   "Jailhouse Rock"
2. "It's a Wonderful Life"
   "Goldfinger"

In the 1940s, the FBI considered the movie "It's a Wonderful Life" communist propaganda due to its supposed subversive anti-capitalist/banking themes.

1. Subject tests on a variety of topics
   A writing test
2. A physical test
   All of the above

Phase 1 Testing consists of a number of written tests. Those with specialized experience may also need to take additional tests to verify their expertise in the field. Phase 2 Testing includes a writing test and an in-person interview conducted by a panel of FBI Special Agents.

1. In garbage cans on the streets of New York City
   In sewers on the streets of Washington, D.C.
2. In geese in Central Park
   In mailboxes on the streets of Washington, D.C.

The 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed sent the FBI on a wild goose chase by claiming that some geese in Central Park had explosives stuffed inside them.

1. Physical threats if he spoke again
   The names of all his friends and their address
2. A tape with recordings of King with women in various hotel rooms
   The names of his family and extended family and where they lived

In 1964, FBI sent Martin Luther King Jr. a letter along with a cassette that contained allegedly incriminating audio recordings of King with women in various hotel rooms.

1. John F. Kennedy
   Elvis
2. Cher
   Helen Keller

Helen Keller was a radical socialist, and the FBI monitored her because of it.

1. A) FBI background check
   B) Medical examination
2. C) Etiquette test
   D) A & C

The FBI background check includes: a credit check; arrest check; polygraph examination and interviews with past employers, neighbors and personal and business references. The medical examination includes a vision and hearing test.

1. 4 years
   8 years
2. 10 years
   No limit

Due to J. Edgar Hoover's abuse of power, directors of the FBI are now limited to 10 years in office.

1. The Secret Service
   Department of Homeland Security
2. Watergate
   COINTELPRO

In 1971, the Citizens' Commission to Investigate the FBI broke into a FBI office in Pennsylvania and stole over 1000 documents and exposed the extreme surveillance program called COINTELPRO. The FBI shut down this program after documents were sent to the press.

1. As much as is required
   40 hours a week
2. Agents can work 16 to 32 hours a week
   All of the above

Depending on your position in the agency, you may work any of the listed hours. Today, the agency offers a part-time program, which allows an agent to work 16 to 32 hours a week for a better work/life balance.

1. 25%
   46%
2. 73%
   94%

Since the program's inception, 465 of the 494 criminals who have made it into the top 10 have been apprehended or located. That's a 94 percent efficiency rate!

1. A) In the 1920s
   B) During Hoover's administration
2. C) After 1970
   D) A & C

In the 1920s, three women served in the FBI. However, Hoover did not allow women to be agents. After Hoover’s death in 1972, the FBI Academy admitted two female agents-in-training and have been enlisting women ever since.

1. Document theft
   Art theft
2. Credit card fraud
   All of the above

In 2004, the Bureau had one of the world's first art theft units. Its members, who learned how to identify fakes, have recovered more than 2,600 stolen items worth nearly $150 million.

1. Being an accountant
   Being a lawyer
2. Being in finance
   All of the above

There are actually 12 critical skills that will put your application at the top of the stack. Besides the above, these skills include foreign-language proficiency, engineering, intelligence experience, physical sciences experience, military experience and others.

1. Employs 500 scientists
   Provides forensic services to state, local and federal agencies
2. One of the largest crime laboratories in the world
   All of the above

Although today it is one of the largest crime laboratories in the world, the FBI Laboratory started out as a one-man operation housed in a single room that doubled as a smoking lounge. Today, it employs 500 scientists and provides forensic services to state, local and federal agencies.

1. A) It exists
   B) It can be used as an espionage tool
2. C) There is a lack of scientific information to consider it
   D) A & B

In the 1950s, several agents investigated extrasensory perception, or ESP, to analyze its potential as an espionage tool. The study was eventually dropped due to lack of scientific evidence.

1. One year
   Two years
2. Three years
   Four or more years

Candidates must have completed at least three years of professional work experience to apply for entry into the FBI.

1. 56 domestic field offices
   45 foreign posts
2. 400 satellite offices
   All of the above

The organization, headquartered in Washington, D.C., is field-oriented, maintaining a network of 56 domestic field offices, 45 foreign posts and 400 satellite offices (resident agencies).

1. John F. Kennedy
   John Lennon
2. Martin Luther King Jr.
   Malcolm X

When President Kennedy was assassinated, President Lyndon B. Johnson called in FBI agents to investigate the murder, setting the precedent for future legislation that designated assassination as a federal crime and granted the agency jurisdiction in assassination cases.

1. They donate them to charity.
   They give them to those in the department with hacking skills.
2. They just leave them since they don't have a way to keep them.
   They put them in the FBI's bitcoin wallet.

The FBI maintains their own Bitcoin wallet that consists of seized Bitcoins. The FBI keeps up with the times.