Detective Quiz: Are You the Next CSI Detective?
Written by Jessica Holom
Last updated · 18 min play time
From Sherlock Holmes to Miss Marple, both fictional and real-life detectives have been solving crimes since the dawn of time. Do you have what it takes to be one of them?
Crime scene investigators and detectives can take a crime scene from a pile of ramshackle evidence to an educated point-by-point theory of how things went down. CSI jobs involve examining and taking proper care of the crime scene and its evidence, interviewing witnesses, victims, and suspects, and using inductive and deductive reasoning to arrive at your theories. To be a top crime scene investigator or detective, you must be organized, intuitive, and extremely observant.
From Sherlock Holmes to Miss Marple, both fictional and real-life detectives have been solving crimes since the dawn of time. In real life, federal and state agencies are incredibly competitive to break into. Do you have what it takes to be one of the few to reach the top?
This quiz is adapted from various CSI and forensic lessons across. To see if you have the reasoning and skills required to be a crime scene investigator, get your magnifying glass and dig in.
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Jessica HolomJessica Holom is a freelance writer and digital nomad with a background in literature, art, and writing. She believes curiosity never killed a single cat and enjoys learning, world-exploring, and writing about both.
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11 yrs and only got 53% 💀
17 out of 40
15 years old, 93% first try
my results were surprisingly not bad considering i know almost nothing all these details
wow!!!!! i will take it again
@IrisIsLovely several of these questions need updated answers. (e.g. a polygraph not being able to measure perspiration. They can. They match that with elevated heartbeat to determine if that's sweat from temperature or nervousness)
Dude i'm a 13 year old and I got 20/40, I hope you understand, it was really new and hard to me .I really had to think more over I didn't even understand some processes. I don't know for what ages this quiz is for but I think you should write the ages.