Q 01/05

Which comic-book superhero was created by William Moulton Marston, the psychologist behind an early lie detector test?

A) Wonder Woman

B) Captain America

C) The Flash

D) Green Lantern

Answer · why

A) Wonder Woman

Wonder Woman forces villains to tell the truth by binding them with her magic lasso. Her creator's systolic blood pressure test became one component o...

Q 02/05

Which crime, rather than bootlegging or murder, finally sent gangster Al Capone to federal prison in 1931?

A) Racketeering

B) Tax evasion

C) Perjury

D) Bribery

Answer · why

B) Tax evasion

Tax evasion earned Al Capone eleven years in federal prison and a $50,000 fine. Federal authorities had charged him with twenty-two counts, and a jury...

Q 03/05

Which unidentified murderer did surgeon Thomas Bond describe in a report sometimes called the first offender profile?

A) The Axeman of New Orleans

B) The Monster of Florence

C) The Servant Girl Annihilator

D) Jack the Ripper

Answer · why

D) Jack the Ripper

Jack the Ripper, Bond wrote in 1888, was probably a quiet, inoffensive-looking man, middle-aged and neatly dressed. He added that the murderer had no ...

Q 04/05

Which detective agency claimed to have foiled the 1861 Baltimore Plot to assassinate President-elect Abraham Lincoln?

A) Wells Fargo

B) Baldwin-Felts

C) Pinkerton

D) Brink's

Answer · why

C) Pinkerton

Pinkerton detective Kate Warne arranged the disguises that got Lincoln through Baltimore and is said to have stayed awake all night guarding him. The ...

Q 05/05

Which hostage condition takes its name from a 1973 siege at a Kreditbanken branch on Norrmalmstorg square?

A) Lima syndrome

B) Stockholm syndrome

C) Copenhagen syndrome

D) Helsinki syndrome

Answer · why

B) Stockholm syndrome

Stockholm syndrome was coined by criminologist Nils Bejerot, who never met or spoke to the hostages he diagnosed. He called it the Norrmalm Square syn...