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Q 01The 'Tamam Shud' case takes its name from a phrase in which language?
- AArabic
- BPersian
- CTurkish
- DHindi
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Persian
"Tamam Shud" (تمام شد) means "it is ended" or "it is finished" in Persian. The phrase was torn from the final page of a poetry book found connected to an unidentified man on an Australian beach in 1948.
Q 02In which US state is the only store that resells the contents of permanently unclaimed airline luggage?
- AAlabama
- BGeorgia
- CTennessee
- DTexas
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Alabama
Unclaimed Baggage, located in Scottsboro, Alabama, has been selling the contents of lost luggage since 1970. It is the only store of its kind in the United States and attracts over a million visitors per year.
Q 03Three boxes found in Mexico held over 4,000 long-lost negatives from which conflict?
- AThe Spanish Civil War
- BThe Vietnam War
- CThe Korean War
- DWorld War I
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The Spanish Civil War
The Spanish Civil War. The 'Mexican Suitcase' held negatives by Robert Capa, Gerda Taro and David 'Chim' Seymour that had been missing since 1939.
Q 04How many former patients' suitcases were found in the attic when Willard State Hospital closed in 1995?
- AAbout 50
- BAbout 150
- CAbout 400
- DAbout 1,000
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About 400
Some 400 suitcases brought in by patients were found in the attic when the hospital closed in 1995. Many of their owners had never left, and no relatives came to claim the contents.
Q 05What unusual item linked a suitcase left in an Adelaide cloakroom to the 'Tamam Shud' dead man?
- AA spool of orange waxed thread
- BA monogrammed handkerchief
- CA train ticket stub
- DA newspaper clipping
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A spool of orange waxed thread
A spool of orange waxed thread. The Barbour thread in the case matched the stitching used to mend a pocket on the dead man's trousers.
Q 06Where did the suitcases holding 'Suitcase Killer' Melanie McGuire's husband's remains wash ashore?
- ALong Island Sound
- BThe Hudson River
- CDelaware Bay
- DChesapeake Bay
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Chesapeake Bay
Three matching suitcases containing Bill McGuire's remains washed up near Virginia's Chesapeake Bay Bridge–Tunnel in May 2004. Melanie McGuire was convicted in 2007 and sentenced to life in prison.
Q 07The 'Tamam Shud' scrap on the Somerton Man was torn from the last page of a poetry book by whom?
- ARumi
- BOmar Khayyám
- CHafez
- DSaadi Shirazi
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Omar Khayyám
The torn scrap came from a copy of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, a collection of Persian quatrains. When police later found the actual book, its back cover contained mysterious indentations that appeared to be an undeciphered code.
Q 08An 8-year-old's find of rotting $20 bills by the Columbia River is the only ransom money recovered from which crime?
- AThe Brink's-Mat robbery
- BThe Antwerp diamond heist
- CThe Gardner Museum heist
- DThe D.B. Cooper hijacking
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The D.B. Cooper hijacking
The D.B. Cooper hijacking. Brian Ingram dug up about $5,800 on Tena Bar in 1980, and the serial numbers matched the ransom paid to the never-identified skyjacker.
Q 09Researchers who used DNA to name Australia's 'Somerton Man' said he had worked as what?
- AShip captain
- BElectrical engineer
- CForeign diplomat
- DPharmaceutical chemist
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Electrical engineer
Electrical engineer. Researchers named him as Carl 'Charles' Webb, a Melbourne instrument maker born in 1905, a match South Australia Police have not verified.
Q 10At what type of place was the foul-smelling trunk in the first of Brighton's 1934 trunk murders found?
- AA hotel basement
- BA shipping dock
- CA railway station
- DA department store
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A railway station
A railway station. Staff in the left luggage office at Brighton railway station traced a smell to the trunk, and the victim's legs turned up in a case at King's Cross.
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