Suitcases Found with Mysteries Inside
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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 that reached New York in 2007 held over 4,000 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 'Mexican Suitcase' held negatives shot by Robert Capa, Gerda Taro and David 'Chim' Seymour, missing since the start of the Second World War and rediscovered in 2007.
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 at Adelaide station 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
The brown suitcase, checked into the Adelaide railway station cloakroom on 30 November 1948, held Barbour-brand orange waxed thread not sold in Australia — the same thread used to mend a trouser pocket on the body.
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 1980 find of $20 bills by the Columbia River is the only physical evidence 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
Brian Ingram found about $5,800 in deteriorating $20 bills on Tena Bar along the Columbia River in Washington state. The serial numbers matched ransom money given to the skyjacker in 1971 — the only loot ever recovered.
Q 09What was the occupation of Australia's 'Somerton Man', finally identified by DNA in 2022?
- AShip captain
- BElectrical engineer
- CForeign diplomat
- DPharmaceutical chemist
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Electrical engineer
On 26 July 2022 the body found on Somerton Park beach in December 1948 was identified as Carl 'Charles' Webb, an electrical engineer and instrument maker born in 1905.
Q 10At what type of location was the foul-smelling trunk of the 1934 Brighton trunk murders found?
- AA hotel basement
- BA shipping dock
- CA railway station
- DA department store
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A railway station
The trunk was found at the left-luggage office of Brighton railway station on 17 June 1934 when an employee investigated a smell. A second case holding the victim's legs turned up at King's Cross station. The victim was never identified.
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