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Bloodstain pattern analysis - Quiz
  • 1. Which state's Supreme Court was the first to accept expert testimony regarding bloodstains?
A) California
B) Michigan
C) Mississippi
D) Ohio
  • 2. Who was the biochemistry and criminalistics professor who testified in the 1966 Sam Sheppard case?
A) Daniel Attinger
B) Sam Sheppard
C) Herbert Leon MacDonell
D) Paul L. Kirk
  • 3. In the Sam Sheppard case, what did the bloodstain evidence allegedly prove?
A) The murder was premeditated
B) The victim was standing
C) The murderer was left-handed
D) The murderer was right-handed
  • 4. Who is credited with promoting the wide use of bloodstain pattern analysis?
A) The National Academy of Sciences
B) Daniel Attinger
C) Herbert Leon MacDonell
D) Paul L. Kirk
  • 5. What is the title of the 1971 book that published MacDonell's research on bloodstains?
A) The Science of Forensic Bloodstains
B) Flight Characteristics and Stain Patterns of Human Blood
C) Principles of Bloodstain Analysis
D) Criminalistics and Blood Dynamics
  • 6. Where did MacDonell conduct his early experiments by slinging his own blood?
A) In a police department facility in California
B) In a state laboratory in Mississippi
C) At Columbia University
D) In the basement of his house in Corning, New York
  • 7. In what year was the first formal bloodstain training course held?
A) 1957
B) 1973
C) 1966
D) 1983
  • 8. How much instruction did many of the newly trained bloodstain analysts often receive?
A) As little as 40 hours
B) Two years of clinical training
C) A university degree
D) At least 500 hours
  • 9. Which organization was founded in 1983 to help develop the field of bloodstain pattern analysis?
A) National Academy of Sciences
B) International Association of Bloodstain Pattern Analysts
C) Forensic Fluid Dynamics Society
D) American Board of Criminalistics
  • 10. What report from 2009 criticized the credentials of bloodstain analysts?
A) National Academy of Sciences report
B) The Forensic International Handbook
C) The California Supreme Court Review
D) The MacDonell Study
  • 11. Who published a 2013 paper arguing that many central hypotheses of bloodstain analysis remain untested?
A) The Sam Sheppard Defense Team
B) Paul L. Kirk
C) Daniel Attinger
D) Herbert Leon MacDonell
  • 12. What theoretical framework did Daniel Attinger propose to improve bloodstain analysis?
A) Biochemistry
B) Statistical profiling
C) Criminalistics
D) Fluid dynamics
  • 13. How have judges generally reacted to the 2009 National Academy of Sciences report?
A) They adopted the report's recommendations
B) They have largely ignored it
C) They immediately banned the evidence
D) They mandated stricter training
  • 14. Which entity funded the research that led to the book 'Flight Characteristics and Stain Patterns of Human Blood'?
A) California Supreme Court
B) Columbia University
C) United States Department of Justice
D) International Association of Bloodstain Pattern Analysts
  • 15. What happened between 1880 and 1957 in courts in Michigan, Mississippi, Ohio, and California regarding bloodstain evidence?
A) They required juries to undergo training
B) They rejected expert testimony for bloodspatter analysis
C) They fully accepted it as standard practice
D) They exclusively used bloodstain analysis for all criminal cases
  • 16. BPA should not be confused with which field?
A) Haemotaphonomy
B) Ballistics
C) Serology
D) Forensic pathology
  • 17. When did the National Academy of Sciences release a report criticizing the scientific nature of BPA?
A) 1958
B) 2009
C) 1995
D) 2021
  • 18. Who published the first modern study of blood stains in 1895?
A) S. James
B) LeMoyne Snyder
C) Dr. Eduard Piotrowski
D) P. Kish
  • 19. What animals were used in the first modern BPA experiments by Dr. Eduard Piotrowski?
A) Rabbits
B) Dogs
C) Monkeys
D) Mice
  • 20. Which book, first published in 1941, briefly mentioned details later expanded upon by BPA experts?
A) The Forensic Handbook
B) Homicide Investigation
C) The Dragnet Guide to Forensics
D) Bloodstain Analysis Principles
  • 21. In what decade did BPA experts start claiming to use biology and physics to reconstruct crime scenes?
A) 1970s
B) 1950s
C) 1930s
D) 1890s
  • 22. Which media source referenced bloodstain pattern analysis in 1952?
A) A New York Times article
B) A Dragnet radio episode
C) A television documentary
D) A scientific journal
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