Q 01/05

Which Truman Capote book reconstructs the 1959 murders of the Clutter family in Kansas?

A) The Stranger Beside Me

B) In Cold Blood

C) Helter Skelter

D) Mindhunter

Answer · why

B) In Cold Blood

Capote called it a non-fiction novel; Hickock, one of the killers, had described the plan as 'a cinch, the perfect score'.

Q 02/05

In police work, what does the term 'cold case' refer to?

A) An unsolved crime no longer under active investigation

B) A crime that has been solved and formally closed

C) A case whose key evidence is temperature-sensitive

D) A crime committed during freezing winter weather

Answer · why

A) An unsolved crime no longer under active investigation

Cold cases are typically violent felonies like murder, which carry no statute of limitations, so advances in DNA and genealogy testing can reopen them...

Q 03/05

What is the Latin term for a criminal's 'method of operation', often used to link crimes?

A) Ad hoc

B) Modus operandi

C) Prima facie

D) Carte blanche

Answer · why

B) Modus operandi

Modus operandi, often shortened to M.O., is a Latin phrase meaning 'mode of operating' and refers to an individual's habits of working, particularly i...

Q 04/05

Which discipline uses insects to aid legal investigations, particularly in estimating time of death?

A) Forensic botany

B) Forensic geology

C) Forensic entomology

D) Forensic odontology

Answer · why

C) Forensic entomology

Forensic entomology is the application of the study of insects and other arthropods to aid legal investigations, most commonly to determine the elapse...

Q 05/05

What is the post-death stiffening of muscles used to estimate time of death called?

A) Rigor mortis

B) Livor mortis

C) Algor mortis

D) Pallor mortis

Answer · why

A) Rigor mortis

Rigor mortis, from Latin for 'stiffness of death,' is a post-mortem phenomenon characterized by the stiffening of the limbs of the corpse due to chemi...