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Quiz about Murder of a Sultan
Quiz about Murder of a Sultan

Murder of a Sultan Trivia Quiz


News Flash: A sultan has been brutally murdered. You are an expert in medical forensics and are called to peruse the case. Are you up for it? This quiz is not for the faint of heart.

A multiple-choice quiz by Saleo. Estimated time: 8 mins.
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Author
Saleo
Time
8 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
356,984
Updated
Dec 03 21
# Qns
10
Difficulty
Average
Avg Score
7 / 10
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1214
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Question 1 of 10
1. You get up one morning and hear the news of a sultan who was killed last night in his great house. Your chief calls you and says he wants you on the case. Your forensic expertise is well known in this usually quiet town that has experienced a string of recent murders that involved influential sultans. You rush to the crime scene, hoping that you can help in solving the case. But you never expect to see anything like what you are going to see.

As soon as you enter the house, you ask your team to check for fingerprints. But then you pick up a wine glass and see a different type of print - a lip print. You ask for the lip print to be examined. What is the identification of a person using lip prints called?
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Question 2 of 10
2. The analysis of the lip print shows that it belonged to an unidentified female and not the Sultan.

You move a little further into the Sultan's bedroom and almost step on something. You pick it up and take a closer look. You immediately identify what you are holding. You are holding a seed of the plant, nux vomica. What is the dangerous alkaloid derived from this seed?
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Question 3 of 10
3. You send the seed for analysis and ask for traces of its alkaloid derivative to be screened for in all possible places. You have a team that works very quickly and identifies that it is not present at all. This perplexes you and you move forward to discover new facts about this crime.

You notice something sticking out under a low-rise couch. You ask your team to lift the couch and then you see the body of a man. You take a closer look to examine the body and estimate the time of death. You check for any indications of this. And then you notice, very visibly, a purplish discoloration of his back, the back of his thighs, legs and arms. And then you explain to your team that this is because of blood rushing into the dependent areas due to gravity. What is this termed as?
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Question 4 of 10
4. You ask for the man to be identified as soon as possible. While the officers at the scene work on figuring that out, you take a closer look at the surroundings and examine the body closely. You find marks of ligature strangulation around his neck. And so, you ask for the body to be lifted off and then see that he was lying on a Beretta M9, which you think might be his. This gun uses cartridges of bullets with a caliber of 9 mm. Which of the following appropriately explains the meaning of the caliber of a rifled firearm? Hint


Question 5 of 10
5. You don't deduce any signs of firearm usage in the room. You keep moving on towards the room which contains the body of the sultan, and examine everything along the way.

You enter the kitchen and then you see a blood-stained rope on the floor. You pick up the rope after putting on gloves. You ask for the material and pattern of the rope to be examined against the marks on the neck of the body previously found. What is another word for ligature strangulation?
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Question 6 of 10
6. The markings on the ligature you found correspond to the patterned injury on the neck of the body you found. And you then deduce that he must have died due to asphyxia caused by ligature strangulation. You ask your team to identify the man and find out what he was doing in the Sultan's house. You then move on further into the crime scene.

You enter another large bedroom that lies open before the hallway that leads to the Sultan's room. You take a close look at the room to see if anything is out of the ordinary and you find a blood stained baseball bat on the floor with a trail of blood leading into the room's attached bathroom. You enter the bathroom and find another body in the bath tub. You examine the body and see multiple injuries. You see a bullet entry wound in the arm, a stab wound in the abdomen, an incised wound in the thigh and a contusion with a possible fracture on the head. Which of the injuries could have been caused by using the baseball bat?
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Question 7 of 10
7. The body found in the bathroom was of a middle-aged male. But it wasn't clear to anyone what he was doing there. So you ask your team to make an identification. Meanwhile, you move on to examine more of the crime scene.

Finally, you enter the Sultan's room and you see a lot of things out of place. You first notice a lot of documents strewn across the floor. You pick up a few documents and see that they contained some important information about the Sultan. And then you come across a piece of paper that appears to be a will handwritten and signed by the Sultan. What is this type of will called?
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Question 8 of 10
8. You read the will lying on the floor and it looked like it was written under suspicious circumstances. So you bag it as evidence and send it for examination. And you continue your search for clues and go deeper into the crime scene.

You see some white chalky powder on the floor. You pick a little bit up and identify it as cocaine. And then you see a trail of the same powdery substance. You follow it and come to a box around which you find a few syringes and cotton and a scale. You open the box and find stashes of two different drugs which you identify as cocaine and heroin. What is the use of cocaine and heroin in the same syringe, intravenously, called?
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Question 9 of 10
9. You ask for the drugs to be transported out, and then move to see the body of the Sultan. You see nothing strange on his body. You see no signs of a struggle, i.e., you see no obvious injuries or scars other than needle marks on the arm. You think it may be a drug overdose but you don't rule anything out.

You then ask for all the bodies to be taken for autopsies. What is the major difference between a pathological and forensic autopsy?
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Question 10 of 10
10. Now that you've seen everything you have to see and are waiting for lab results and identifications, you are perplexed by all the weird things you came across. As you wait for the lab results and identifications to come through, you are determined to finish this challenging case and help in finding the person who did it. As for now, it is not clear to you that if there was another person with the Sultan and the two unidentified men.

Of the results that begin to come in, the first is of the lip print from the glass. It belongs to a female. The second results to come are those of the fingerprints. Fingerprint studies indicate that there was another person present in addition to the three men. The autopsy results reveal that the first man died of asphyxia due to ligature strangulation, the second man died of a hemorrhage due to a contusion and fracture of the head and the Sultan died of a cardiac arrest due to an overdose of cocaine and heroin. You then try to understand the manner of death of the three men. Which of the following is most probably the manner of death?
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1. You get up one morning and hear the news of a sultan who was killed last night in his great house. Your chief calls you and says he wants you on the case. Your forensic expertise is well known in this usually quiet town that has experienced a string of recent murders that involved influential sultans. You rush to the crime scene, hoping that you can help in solving the case. But you never expect to see anything like what you are going to see. As soon as you enter the house, you ask your team to check for fingerprints. But then you pick up a wine glass and see a different type of print - a lip print. You ask for the lip print to be examined. What is the identification of a person using lip prints called?

Answer: Cheiloscopy

Cheiloscopy involves the identification of a person using lip prints. It is a technique used in forensic science. Actual identification of a person using lip prints would be very difficult unless there is clear representation of the finer details of the lip.

Otherwise, lip prints can reveal circumstantial evidence like if some significant chemical substance like cosmetics or food was on the lips. It can also help in revealing certain events surrounding the crime under investigation, like the movement or actions of the accused. Sometimes lip prints may be associated with saliva aiding in identification via DNA studies.
2. The analysis of the lip print shows that it belonged to an unidentified female and not the Sultan. You move a little further into the Sultan's bedroom and almost step on something. You pick it up and take a closer look. You immediately identify what you are holding. You are holding a seed of the plant, nux vomica. What is the dangerous alkaloid derived from this seed?

Answer: Strychnine

Strychnine is an alkaloid derived from the seeds of the tree Strychnos nux-vomica. It is a highly toxic poison and can be used as an effective killer in homicides. Some of the symptoms of strychnine intake are convulsions, vomiting, loss of consciousness and asphyxia. It is a neurotoxin. Brucine is another poisonous compound that can be derived from the bark of this tree.
3. You send the seed for analysis and ask for traces of its alkaloid derivative to be screened for in all possible places. You have a team that works very quickly and identifies that it is not present at all. This perplexes you and you move forward to discover new facts about this crime. You notice something sticking out under a low-rise couch. You ask your team to lift the couch and then you see the body of a man. You take a closer look to examine the body and estimate the time of death. You check for any indications of this. And then you notice, very visibly, a purplish discoloration of his back, the back of his thighs, legs and arms. And then you explain to your team that this is because of blood rushing into the dependent areas due to gravity. What is this termed as?

Answer: Livor mortis

Livor mortis is the discoloration of the dependent parts of the body after death, due to the pooling of blood into them. These areas get a reddish purple tinge. It is a sign of death; it starts a few minutes after death and is seen very distinctly at around 6-12 hours.

It is a method of estimation of time of death. It is also called post-mortem lividity, post-mortem staining and hypostasis. Alongside rigor mortis and algor mortis, among a few, it is one of the changes that occur after death.
4. You ask for the man to be identified as soon as possible. While the officers at the scene work on figuring that out, you take a closer look at the surroundings and examine the body closely. You find marks of ligature strangulation around his neck. And so, you ask for the body to be lifted off and then see that he was lying on a Beretta M9, which you think might be his. This gun uses cartridges of bullets with a caliber of 9 mm. Which of the following appropriately explains the meaning of the caliber of a rifled firearm?

Answer: Distance between the lands and grooves in the barrel of the gun

The caliber of a gun is usually defined as the diameter of the bullet such as to allow it to pass through the barrel. It also implies to the diameter of the barrel of the gun.

In rifled firearms, there are lands and grooves in the barrel, which are to the firearm as fingerprints are to man. These are inclinations and depression in the barrel than run throughout the length of the barrel. The distance between diametrically opposite land and groove is also called the caliber of a rifled firearm.

Another interesting fact is that impressions of the specifics of the land and grooves like number, positions, angle, etc., are made on the bullets and can be used to identify the make of the gun. This is called fingerprinting of a bullet.
5. You don't deduce any signs of firearm usage in the room. You keep moving on towards the room which contains the body of the sultan, and examine everything along the way. You enter the kitchen and then you see a blood-stained rope on the floor. You pick up the rope after putting on gloves. You ask for the material and pattern of the rope to be examined against the marks on the neck of the body previously found. What is another word for ligature strangulation?

Answer: Garroting

Garroting is the process of manual strangulation of a person using a material or ligature like a rope, cable ties or a metal wire. The mechanism of death in strangulation is asphyxia brought about by compression and damage to the inner structures of the neck which includes the trachea.

Putrefaction is a change after death in which decomposition of the body sets in. Lynching is a type of illicit execution in which a crowd hangs a person publicly and is sometimes done by burning the person at the stake. Stoning is when a crowd kills a person by throwing stones at him.
6. The markings on the ligature you found correspond to the patterned injury on the neck of the body you found. And you then deduce that he must have died due to asphyxia caused by ligature strangulation. You ask your team to identify the man and find out what he was doing in the Sultan's house. You then move on further into the crime scene. You enter another large bedroom that lies open before the hallway that leads to the Sultan's room. You take a close look at the room to see if anything is out of the ordinary and you find a blood stained baseball bat on the floor with a trail of blood leading into the room's attached bathroom. You enter the bathroom and find another body in the bath tub. You examine the body and see multiple injuries. You see a bullet entry wound in the arm, a stab wound in the abdomen, an incised wound in the thigh and a contusion with a possible fracture on the head. Which of the injuries could have been caused by using the baseball bat?

Answer: Contusion and fracture of head

A contusion is a type of mechanical injury which is usually caused by a blunt weapon like a baseball bat in this case. Due to trauma, underlying blood vessels allow blood to seep and extravasate, causing a change in color of skin. Bruises can also be caused by some diseases. Area, age, causative force, etc. affect the appearance of the bruise. Spontaneous healing occurs unless the damage is extensive, which can lead to infections.

A fracture is damage or separation in a bone caused by some accident or trauma. Blunt weapons can cause fractures. It can occur spontaneously in bone disorders like osteoporosis and bone cancer.

Other types of mechanical injuries are abrasions and lacerations.
7. The body found in the bathroom was of a middle-aged male. But it wasn't clear to anyone what he was doing there. So you ask your team to make an identification. Meanwhile, you move on to examine more of the crime scene. Finally, you enter the Sultan's room and you see a lot of things out of place. You first notice a lot of documents strewn across the floor. You pick up a few documents and see that they contained some important information about the Sultan. And then you come across a piece of paper that appears to be a will handwritten and signed by the Sultan. What is this type of will called?

Answer: Holographic will

A holographic will is a type of will which is written by and signed by the person who is bequeathing his/her property, called the testator. It is admissible in court as long as it can be evidenced that it was written by the testator alone. It is usually used in emergency situations like on the occasion of a life threatening illness or imminent death. Ideally, witnesses must be present at the writing of this kind of will. Also, the testator should not have written the will under duress and should have been of sound mind.
8. You read the will lying on the floor and it looked like it was written under suspicious circumstances. So you bag it as evidence and send it for examination. And you continue your search for clues and go deeper into the crime scene. You see some white chalky powder on the floor. You pick a little bit up and identify it as cocaine. And then you see a trail of the same powdery substance. You follow it and come to a box around which you find a few syringes and cotton and a scale. You open the box and find stashes of two different drugs which you identify as cocaine and heroin. What is the use of cocaine and heroin in the same syringe, intravenously, called?

Answer: Speedball

Speedball is the usage of both cocaine and heroin, in the same syringe intravenously. It is highly dangerous, even so more than the use of either of the drugs individually. An overdose can have fatal effects. The effects of both drugs combine to produce an effect that precipitates drowsiness, palpitations, anxiety and euphoria.
9. You ask for the drugs to be transported out, and then move to see the body of the Sultan. You see nothing strange on his body. You see no signs of a struggle, i.e., you see no obvious injuries or scars other than needle marks on the arm. You think it may be a drug overdose but you don't rule anything out. You then ask for all the bodies to be taken for autopsies. What is the major difference between a pathological and forensic autopsy?

Answer: A pathological autopsy is done to determine the medical reasons for the death, while forensic autopsy is done to find the manner of death from a legal point of view

A pathological autopsy is done in a case where the pathology behind the death of a patient was not understood or was unclear before he/she died. It is mainly for medical and diagnostic purposes, though it can also be done for educational purposes. It is also called a clinical autopsy.

A forensic autopsy is done to identify the manner of death, i.e., homicidal, suicidal or accidental. The results have legal implications and findings can be used as evidence in court if a trial is in order. It is also called a medico-legal autopsy.
10. Now that you've seen everything you have to see and are waiting for lab results and identifications, you are perplexed by all the weird things you came across. As you wait for the lab results and identifications to come through, you are determined to finish this challenging case and help in finding the person who did it. As for now, it is not clear to you that if there was another person with the Sultan and the two unidentified men. Of the results that begin to come in, the first is of the lip print from the glass. It belongs to a female. The second results to come are those of the fingerprints. Fingerprint studies indicate that there was another person present in addition to the three men. The autopsy results reveal that the first man died of asphyxia due to ligature strangulation, the second man died of a hemorrhage due to a contusion and fracture of the head and the Sultan died of a cardiac arrest due to an overdose of cocaine and heroin. You then try to understand the manner of death of the three men. Which of the following is most probably the manner of death?

Answer: First and second men - homicidal; Sultan - accidental

It is most probable that the death of both the first two unidentified men was homicidal as they died by ligature strangulation and blunt force injury by a baseball bat, which cannot be self-inflicted or accidental. That rules out suicidal manner of death for both these men and since the presence of a fourth person is determined, a homicidal manner of death for both men is most probable.

The Sultan died of an overdose of drugs which can be homicidal or accidental. Deaths due to overdose are rarely suicidal. If adulterants like strychnine are identified in his body, it may be ruled as homicidal. But until then an assumption of an accidental death has to be assumed as most probable.
Source: Author Saleo

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