IAI Practice Test – Sourcebook UPDATED
ACTUAL Questions and CORRECT
Answers
Which culture was known to first used friction ridge impressions as a means for
identification? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- China
What country and what law showed the understanding of the value of friction ridge skin for
individualization? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Japan and the Domestic Law
Who was the first (European) to detail friction ridge skin? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Dr.
Nehemiah Grew
Which Dutch anatomist published papers that detail the skin and papillary ridges of the
thumb? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Govard Bidloo
Who was credited with being the first to use the newly invented microscope for Medical
Studies? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Marcell Malphighi
Who was the first European to write of friction ridge skin uniqueness? - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔- J. C. A. Mayer
How did Thomas Bewick use fingerprints? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- In his signature
How many patterns did Dr. Johannes E. Purkinje name? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- 9
Who was the first person to start studying the permanence of friction ridge skin? -
CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Hermann Welcker
Who was credited with being the first to study the permanence of friction skin? - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔- Sir William Herschel
, What document did Sir William Herschel write that explained the permanence and
uniqueness of friction ridge skin? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Hooghly letter
Who studied and worked in Japan, collecting prints from both monkeys and humans? -
CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Henry Faulds
Who was the first person to publish about the value of friction ridge skin for individualization
and as evidence? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Henry Faulds
Alphonse Bertillon is known for: - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Anthropometry
Dr. Arthur Kollmann was known for his studies into: - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-
Embryological Development
What did Dr. Arthur Kollmann study to develop his theory on the arrangement of sweat
glands into rows was an evolutionary change? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Mammals
Who was cousins to Charles Darwin and established that friction ridge skin is unique and
persistent? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Sir Francis Galton
What are minutiae also known as? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Galton Details
Who was the head of the bureau of Anthropometric Identification in Argentina? - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔- Juan Vucetich
Who developed a classification system in Argentina and who's training help solve was is
considered to be the first homicide by fingerprint evidence? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-
Juan Vucetich
Who developed (with the help of others) the classification system that replaced
Anthropometry? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Sir Edward Henry
ACTUAL Questions and CORRECT
Answers
Which culture was known to first used friction ridge impressions as a means for
identification? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- China
What country and what law showed the understanding of the value of friction ridge skin for
individualization? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Japan and the Domestic Law
Who was the first (European) to detail friction ridge skin? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Dr.
Nehemiah Grew
Which Dutch anatomist published papers that detail the skin and papillary ridges of the
thumb? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Govard Bidloo
Who was credited with being the first to use the newly invented microscope for Medical
Studies? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Marcell Malphighi
Who was the first European to write of friction ridge skin uniqueness? - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔- J. C. A. Mayer
How did Thomas Bewick use fingerprints? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- In his signature
How many patterns did Dr. Johannes E. Purkinje name? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- 9
Who was the first person to start studying the permanence of friction ridge skin? -
CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Hermann Welcker
Who was credited with being the first to study the permanence of friction skin? - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔- Sir William Herschel
, What document did Sir William Herschel write that explained the permanence and
uniqueness of friction ridge skin? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Hooghly letter
Who studied and worked in Japan, collecting prints from both monkeys and humans? -
CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Henry Faulds
Who was the first person to publish about the value of friction ridge skin for individualization
and as evidence? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Henry Faulds
Alphonse Bertillon is known for: - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Anthropometry
Dr. Arthur Kollmann was known for his studies into: - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-
Embryological Development
What did Dr. Arthur Kollmann study to develop his theory on the arrangement of sweat
glands into rows was an evolutionary change? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Mammals
Who was cousins to Charles Darwin and established that friction ridge skin is unique and
persistent? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Sir Francis Galton
What are minutiae also known as? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Galton Details
Who was the head of the bureau of Anthropometric Identification in Argentina? - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔- Juan Vucetich
Who developed a classification system in Argentina and who's training help solve was is
considered to be the first homicide by fingerprint evidence? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-
Juan Vucetich
Who developed (with the help of others) the classification system that replaced
Anthropometry? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Sir Edward Henry
