PRE-BOARD CRIMINALISTIC

1. In key classification, no matter where the impression is found, is always placed to the
extreme left of the numerator of the classification, is it correct?
A. Yes B. No C. Possible D. Sometimes
2. The sum total of numerical values of whorls in a set of fingers plus the fraction of one over
one is what kind of classification?
a. key b. primary c. major d. final
3. The fingerprint pattern usually found in the loops and whorls is what?
a. sufficient recurved b. core
c. delta d. type lines
4. In fingerprint study, the pattern that has two deltas and with at least one ridge that make a
turn through one complete circuit is called?
a. plain whorl b. loop c. whorl d. arch
5. In fingerprint study, the pattern that has two deltas and with at least one ridge that make a
turn through one complete circuit, and if an imaginary line is drawn from left delta to right delta
it touches at least one circuit is called what?
a. plain whorl b. loop c. whorl d. arch
6. The main purpose of the fingerprint system is to confirm the identity and the criminal history
of the what?
a. relative of the suspect b. suspect
c. victims d. gangmates
7. The approximate center of a fingerprint pattern, usually found in loops and whorls is what?
a. middle ridge b. core c. delta d. bifurcation
8. The process of writing the symbols of the corresponding pattern on the space provided in the
fingerprint card is called?
a. blocking b. pairing c. finger system d. filling
9. The ridge that divide itself into two ridges and which resembles a fork-like structure is called?
a. island b. recurved c. bifurcation d. converging ridges
10. Who is the father of chiroscopy?
a. John F.W. Herschell b. William Herschell
c. Francis Galton d. Alphonse Bertillion
11. In the history of Dactyloscopy in relation to jurisprudence. USA: Thomas Jennings,
Philippines: ______________?
a. Ernesto Miranda b. Cyrus Dizon
c. Medina d. Rey Christian Mapp
12. It is the study of the general practices, methods, and steps in taking pictures of the crime
scene, physical things, and other circumstances that can be used as criminal evidences or of law
enforcement purpose
a. forensic photography b. photography
b. crime scene photography d. police photography
13. it is considered in the history as the birth year of photography?
a. 1939 b. 1839 c. 1639 d. 1739
14. Photographing of object directly enlarge to the negative and magnified from 1 to 9x. it is a
process whereby enlargement is accomplished directly with the camera without the aid of
microscope?
a. macrophotography b. photomicrography
c. forensic photography d. microphotography
15. The taking of pictures of suspects and prisoners for identification purposes usually in police
stations pertains to what well in common as mug photography while photographing minute
objects when enlarged by microscope is known as what?
a. macrophotography b. photomicrography
c. forensic photography d. microphotography
16. The Daguerreotype is for Daguerre while the____________ is for Talbot.
a. heliographic drawing b. calotype
c. photogenic writing d. Talbotype
17. The type of printing in photography carried out by making prints of exactly the same size as
the negative is referred to as what?
a. projecting b. enlarging
c. contact d. a and b
18. The difference between what is seen through the viewfinder and what is exactly recorded
on the film especially occurring in twin lens reflex camera is known as _____?
a. infinity b. depth of field
c. parallax d. mirage
19. in SSC if the ridge count in the middle finger is 9, then it is what?
a. inner loop b. middle loop
c. outer loop d. meeting
20. In fingerprint classification, if all fingers are amputated, then what is the Primary
classification?
a. 1/1 b. 31/31 c. 32/32 d. 30/30
21. If Mr. Cyrus set his camera with a lens opening of f-5.6 and a 1/250 shutter speed while Mr.
Rey has a camera set of f-4 and 1/125. How many times thus the camera of Mr. Rey admits
more lights?
a. 2 times b. 3 times c. 4 times d. 5times
22. This pertains to the margin of errors within which over or under exposed negatives or prints
are still acceptable?
a. exposure latitude b. over and under exposure
c. sharpness d. over and under develop
23. It pertain to an action of moving the lens in relation to the image plane so as to obtain the
required degree of sharpness of the film?
a. digital focusing b. infinity focusing
c. focusing d. sharp shooting
24. It pertains to a frame or stand with three legs that are usually collapsible, used for
supporting something such as a camera.
a. camera frame b. tripod
c. camera post d. photographic skeleton
25. it is known in photography as the optical imperfection resulting to image distortion?
a. aberration b. astigmatism
c. curvilinear d. distortion
26. Which aperture size can have a greater depth of field?
a. f-2.8 b. f-5.6 c. f-8 d. f-16
27. Which aperture size has a larger opening?
a. f-2.8 b. f-5.6 c. f-8 d. f-16
28. The study concerning the production of permanent records of image by the combined
action of light on the sensitive surfaces, a mechanical device and chemical processing is of
course photography but the door of camera is known as.
a. pornography b. shutter
c. photography d. camera
29. an early form of camera used for sketching is known as what?
a. camera obscura b. box camera
c. pinhole camera d. instamatic camera
30. it is basically known as the major parts of the film and it is where silver halide can found.
a. film base b. emulsion
c. top- coating d. anti- halation backing
31. The salient feature of negative lens is _____________.
a. it, constrict the light b. it, diverge the light
c. it, converge the light d. all of them
32. It refers to the study of the fundamentals of photography, its application to police work and
the preparation of photographic evidence for court presentation.
a. forensic photography b. photography
c. crime scene photography d. police photography
33. The process of photographing or recording the crime scene or any object in the crime scene
for court presentation is called what?
a. forensic photography b. photography
c. crime scene photography d. police photography
34. What is the utmost used of photography?
a. identification b. record purposes
c. communication d. evidence
35. What is the first country in the world, which used photographs in police work particularly in
the identification of criminals?
a. Philippines b. Germany c. France D. Italy
36. In addition to medical certificates, as prober, how can you preserve perishable evidence like
injuries, contusions, hematoma, and the like?
a. photographing it b. written interrogation
c. tape recording d. memoirs
37. In robbery case, the photographs should include the close-up shots of what?
a. good stolen b. entrance and exit
c. cohorts d. escaped car
38. in photography, the undeveloped sensitized material is known as what?
a. positive b. flash
c. film d. negative
39. In taking photographs, the lights must be regulated that upon reaching the sensitized
material or the film, all other lights must be what?
a. deducted b. exposed
c. controlled d. excluded
40. What is this part of camera which is usually an enclosure devoid of lights?
a. light tight box b. body
c. tripod d. viewfinder
41. In murder case, the photograph should include the close-up shots of what?
a. ingress and egress b. cohorts of the suspects
c. good stolen d. assailant escaped car
42. Legally speaking, what is the description of the act of passing, delivering, or giving a
counterfeited coin to another person?
a. counterfeiting b. Falsification
c. reproduction d. uttering
43. The ruled or imaginary line where the letters in the handwriting rest is simply called what?
a. alignment b. baseline
c. line quality d. pen position
44. What technique should be applied in recording the original appearance of a charred
document that was discovered at the crime scene?
a. microphotography b. Infrared photography
c. ultraviolet photography d. photomicrography
45. who is the most influential document examiner in America and sometimes regarded as the
father of QDE?
a. Wilson Harrison b. Alfred Dreyfus
c. Albert Osborn d. Gilbert Thompson
46. Paleography came from the Greek word “palaios” which literally means what?
a. art b. writing c. to write d. old
47. A figure resembling a hole or opening as part of the letter is what?
a. ascender b. Beaded
c. bucklenot d. eyeloop
48. Which of these refers to the special way how various muscles work together to produce
written ideas conceived by the mind of the writer?
a. muscle coordination b. motor coordination
c. rhythm d. handwriting movement
49. which of these terms used to described a line, sentence or paragraph that is inserted in
between line or paragraph written in a document?
a. addition b. superimposition
c. substitution d. interlineations
50. In case of forgery what is the best evidence to be presented, to prove the fact in dispute?
a. the original document b. the questioned document
c. the disputed document d. the photocopy
51. Legally speaking, how many type of document we have?
a. 2 b. 3 c. 4 d. 5
52. A person, by reason of his special technical training or experience, can be permitted to
express his opinion about scientific issues involved in lawsuit. Legally speaking, what is the best
description of this person?
a. Document examiner b. handwriting expert
c. expert witness d. criminalist
53. Technically, what is the appropriate term for blotting out or shearing over a word or letter in
a document to make the original handwriting invisible to the naked eye?
a. erasure b. shading
c. obliteration d. retouching
54. It is written by a person as a sign of acknowledgement?
a. name b. signature c. thumb mark d. last name
55. What feature of the document can be used to indicate the source or origin of paper?
a. wire marks b. postmarks c. watermark d. kiss mark
56. A person who can write either with his left or right hand is called?
a. ambidextrous b. analogous c. bicephalous d. dexterous
57. What muscles are used in pushing the pen for the upward strokes of our handwriting?
a. flexor b. extensor c. lubricant d. biceps
58. Is all bullet are metal?
a. yes b. no c. true d. false
59. What is the modern term of a handwriting specimen obtained personally from a known
source that can be used by the examiner as the basis for his ID or non-ID of handwriting found
in QD?
a. handwriting standard b. samples
c. collected standard d. exemplar
60. A genuine signature which has been used to prepare imitated or traced signature is known
as what?
a. model b. standard c. exemplar d. formal
61. If a dead body was found in the river, the cadaver stomach was not bloated and there, are
no sign of any injuries on the cadaver then your theory is what?
a. accidental b. homicidal
c. negligence d. imprudence
62. Which of these refers to the act of the author in intermittently forcing the pen against the
paper surface with increasing pressure while writing?
a. pen emphasis b. pen hold
c. pen lift d. pen pressure
63. The document examiners work is basically that of comparing the questioned document to
that of what?
a. official specimen b. Certified copies
c. Admissible specimen d. Standard specimen
64. In questioned document, the retouching or going back over to a defective portion of a
writing stroke is called what?
a. slicing b. all of these
c. embracing d. patching
65. To impose a motion of rotation to bullet during its passage inside the barrel to insure
gyroscopic stability in its flight is called what?
a. range b. gauge
c. rifling d. center fire
66. Most commonly these marks are found on the bullet fired from a revolver due to pour
alignment of the cylinder with bore:
a. shaving marks b. pivot marks
c. skid marks d. land marks
67. The equipment in forensic ballistics that measure the pitch of rifling is called what?
a. chronograph b. helixometer
c. micrometer d. taper gauge
68. If a bullet was fired through a weapon in which the lands have been drown out or through a
bore is slightly oversize or oily, the mark is called what?
a. acid marks b. rifling marks
c. shearing marks d. slippage marks
69. Rifling located inside the barrel of a gun is a combination of what?
a. lands and grooves b. cannelures
c. both a and d d. lands and grooves
70. The marks left on a bullet by a gun barrel is different from those left by any other barrel.
This fact is most useful in directly identifying the:
a. person who fired the particular gun b. direction from which the gun was fired
c. Gun from which a bullet was fired d. bullet which cause the fatal wound
71. The term “MAGNUM” originated in what country?
a. USA b. France
c. England d. Italy
72. The chemical eating away of the bore of an arm due to rusting or the action of salts deposit
from the cap of gun powder is called as what?
a. pressure b. Extractor
c. corrosion d. erosion
73. The bouncing off or deflect of bullet from its original trajectory is called as:
a. range b. recoil
c. key hole shot d. ricochet
74. When the bullet enters the riffle bore from a stationary position and is forced and abruptly
into the rifling its natural tendency is to go straight forward before encountering the regular
rifling twist is called:
a. shaving marks b. skid marks
c. striation marks d. slippage marks
75. The steel block which closes the rear of the bore against the force of the charge is called
what?
a. breech-face b. breech-block
c. bore d. jump
76. These are questions, which have no bearing to the case under investigation.
a. control b. relevant c. irrelevant d. supplementary
77. After polygraph examination, who determine the guilt of the accused?
a. polygraph examiner b. the investigator on case
c. the trial judge d. the prosecutor
78. Which of the following statement is not false?
a. the purpose of polygraph examination is to sustain conviction
b. polygraph is considered as an investigative aid in the investigation process
c. polygraphy can be a substitute for investigation
d. all of the above
79. It is a division of ANS whose function is to calm the body, bringing functions back to normal
after an emergency has passed.
a. sympathetic b. parasympathetic
c. homeostasis division d. equilibrium division
80. Perjury is usually committed in order to mislead justice. This is type of what lie?
a. malicious lie b. red lie
c. white lie d. jocose lie
81. Who introduce hypnosis or hypnotism?
a. Franz Anton Mesmer b. Francis Galton
c. John Larson d. Leonard Keeler
82. The word ordeal derived from the latin words JUDICIUM DEI and DEI INDICUM in which the
former means what?
a. judgment of GOD b. miraculous decision
c. judgment day d. decision of the miracles
83. The following are major component of polygraph, except?
a. cardiosphymograph b. kymograph
c. pneumograph d. galvanograph
84. What parcel of the Polygraph record the abdominal breathing of the subject?
a. cardiosphymograph b. kymograph
c. pneumograph d. galvanograph
85. What type of question is asked during the test that deals with a known fact, which the
subject cannot lie?
a. knowledge question b. irrelevant question
c. control question d. relevant question
86. What component of the polygraph drives the chart paper during the test?
a. cardiosphymograph b. kymograph
c. pneumograph d. galvanograph
87. Any changes from normal requires an explanation. This statement is the cardinal rule in
chart______________?
a. interpretation b. proving
c. marking d. tracing
88. Which component of the polygraph has the longest pen?
a. cardiosphymograph b. kymograph
c. pneumograph d. galvanograph
89. In lie detection probe, the force that arouses the organism or any of its parts to activity is
called?
a. detection b. control reaction
c. reception d. stimulus
90. All except one is not part of the tripod of polygraph?
a. mechanical b. physiological
c. psychological d. biological
91. What is the test used in determining whether the blood is human or animal?
a. acid hematin b. albumin test
c. precipitin test d. alkaline test
92. Onset of rigor mortis means the setting of body changes due to:
a. death b. putrefaction
c. obesity c. poisoning
93. What is this death is due to a sudden, fatal stoppage of heart functioning?
a. heart attack b. death from syncope
c. thrombosis d. myocardiac infarction
94. Blood remain fluid inside the blood vessels up to between how many hours after death?
a. 8-10 b. 4-6 c. 2-4 d. 6-8
95. A victim cadaver if exposed to either heat or cold may result to post-mortem lividity color of
what?
a. violet b. bright-red c. yellowish d. pole
96. Hemorrhage or loss of blood maybe fatal. Which can stand more loss of blood, the male or
female?
a. female b. it depends
c. male has no known advantage d. male
97. What is this condition in which the supply of oxygen in the body ceases and as a result
thereof the person dies?
a. valvular disease b. rupture of the aortic
c. thrombosis d. asphyxia
98. Normally, how many hours after meal for the stomach to digest the food taken?
a. 1-2 b. 3-4 c. 5-6 d. 6-8
99. Who declared with scientific proof that the human skeleton is unchangeable after the 20 th
year?
a. Alphonse B. Thomas c. Bertillon d. Gumma
100. Can all physician allowed to conduct autopsy?
a. yes b. no c. never d. maybe