Q 01/05

A 1908 ban on borrowing which agency's agents led to the Bureau's creation?

A) U.S. Marshals

B) Secret Service

C) Customs Service

D) Postal Inspectors

Answer · why

B) Secret Service

The Secret Service had been renting out its investigators until Congress banned the loans in May 1908. The ban backfired: the attorney general hired 3...

Q 02/05

The Bureau's founder in 1908 was a great-nephew of which French ruler?

A) Louis XVI

B) Napoleon Bonaparte

C) Napoleon III

D) Louis Philippe I

Answer · why

B) Napoleon Bonaparte

Napoleon Bonaparte had his youngest brother's marriage to a Baltimore merchant's daughter annulled so the brother could wed a princess. The American g...

Q 03/05

The Bureau of Investigation was created in 1908 with the backing of which president?

A) William Howard Taft

B) Woodrow Wilson

C) Theodore Roosevelt

D) William McKinley

Answer · why

C) Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt reached the White House because an anarchist shot McKinley in 1901. Fear of more such attacks, and a Justice Department with no det...

Q 04/05

Which motto was coined for the FBI in 1935?

A) Fairness, Bravery, Independence

B) Fidelity, Boldness, Independence

C) Fidelity, Bravery, Integrity

D) Fairness, Boldness, Integrity

Answer · why

C) Fidelity, Bravery, Integrity

Fidelity, Bravery, Integrity dates from 1935, the year the Bureau took its present name, and was chosen because the words spell out the new initials. ...

Q 05/05

In 1910 the young Bureau took the lead on enforcing which new law against interstate prostitution?

A) The Comstock Act

B) The Espionage Act

C) The Volstead Act

D) The Mann Act

Answer · why

D) The Mann Act

The Mann Act banned taking women across state lines for 'immoral purposes', loose wording soon aimed at the famous. Boxing champion Jack Johnson, conv...