1st QUIZ

Question 1

It is the conduct of processes, more particularly, the recognition, handling, preservation and documentation of physical evidence to include the identification and interview of witnesses and the arrest of suspect/s at the crime scene, the manner the criminal act was executed, and such other things that may be useful in the prosecution of the case.

Answer 1

Crime scene investigation

Question 2

The area is blocked out in the form of a rectangle. The searcher proceeds slowly at the same pace along the path parallel to one side of the rectangle.

Answer 2

Strip method

Question 3

This search is a modification of the strip search method. The searchers will traverse first parallel to the base and then parallel to the side.

Answer 3

Double strip or grid method

Question 4

The searchers follow each other in the path in the spiral manner beginning from the center towards the outside or vice versa.

Answer 4

Spiral method

Question 5

The searchers gather at the center and proceed outwards along radii or spokes.

Answer 5

Wheel or Ray Method

Question 6

Whole area is divided into subdivisions or quadrants and search is made in the individual quadrants.

Answer 6

Zone method

Question 7

A comprehensive study of a dead body, performed by a trained physician employing
recognized dissection procedure and techniques. It includes removal of tissues for further examination.

Answer 7

Autopsy

Question 8

Kinds of Autopsy

Answer 8

a. Hospital or Non-official Autopsy
b. Medico-legal or Official Autopsy

Question 9

Persons who are Authorized to Perform Autopsies and Dissections:

Answer 9

a. Health Officers;

b. Medical officers of law enforcement agencies; and

c. Members of the medical staff of accredited hospitals.

Question 10

after all efforts, including gross and microscopic studies and
toxicological analyses, fail to reveal a cause of death.

It is an autopsy which after a meticulous examination with
the aid of other examinations does not yield any definite cause of death.

Answer 10

Negative autopsy

Question 11

An autopsy wherein no cause of death is found on account of imprudence, negligence, lack of skill or
lack of foresight of the examiner.

Answer 11

Negligent autopsy

Question 12

This applies to cases when trauma or disease kill quickly that there is no opportunity for sequelae or
complications to develop.

Answer 12

Immediate (primary) cause of death

Question 13

The injury or disease was survived for a sufficiently prolonged interval which permitted the development
of serious sequelae which actually caused the death.

Answer 13

Proximate (secondary) cause of death

Question 14

This is death caused by a natural disease condition in the body. The disease may develop spontaneously,
or it might have been a consequence of physical injury inflicted prior to its development.

Answer 14

Natural death

Question 15

are those due to injuries inflicted in the body by some forms of outside force. The physical injury must be the proximate cause of death.

Answer 15

Violent death

Question 16

Death due to misadventure or accident. An accident is something that happens outside the sway of our will, and although it comes about through some act of will, lies beyond bounds of human foreseeable
consequences.

Answer 16

Accidental death

Question 17

Death due to reckless imprudence, negligence, lack of skill or lack of foresight.

Answer 17

Negligent death

Question 18

Suicide is the act of intentionally causing one’s own death.

Answer 18

Suicidal death

Question 19

Any person who shall kill his father, mother, or child, whether legitimate or illegitimate, or any of his
ascendants or descendants, or his spouse, shall be guilty of parricide.

Answer 19

Parricidal death
Art. 246, Revised Penal Code

Question 20

the killing of a child less than 3 days old.

Answer 20

Infanticidal death (Art. 255, Revised Penal Code)

Question 21

Any person who, not falling within the provisions of Article 246 shall kill another

Answer 21

Murder (Art. 248, Revised Penal Code)

Question 22

Any person who, not falling within the provisions of article 246 shall kill another without the attendance
of any of the circumstances enumerated in the provision of Art. 248 or Revised Penal Code (Murder)

Answer 22

Homicidal death

Question 23

When while several persons, not composing groups organized for the common purpose of assaulting and attacking each other reciprocally

Answer 23

Death Caused in a Tumultuous Affray
(Art. 251, Revised Penal Code)

Question 24

Any legally married person who, having surprised his spouse in the act of committing sexual intercourse with another person, shall kill any of them or both of them in the act or immediately thereafter, or shall inflict upon them any serious physical injury, shall suffer the penalty of destierro.

Answer 24

Death or Physical Injuries Inflicted under Exceptional Circumstances (Art. 247, Revised Penal
Code)

Question 25

Modern methods in the execution of death sentences have abandoned inhuman, cruel and barbarous
means. Executions by garroting, decapitation by means of the guillotine and by drowning which were common during the medieval days are no longer practiced

Answer 25

Judicial death

Question 26

A person is made to sit on a chair made of electrical conducting materials with straps of electrodes on both wrists, ankles, and head. An alternating current voltage of more than 1,500 volts is put on until the convict dies.

Answer 26

Death by electrocution

Question 27

The convict is made to stand in an elevated collapsible platform with a black hood on the head, a noose
made of rope around the neck and the other end of which is fixed in an elevated structure above the head.

Answer 27

Death by hanging

Question 28

The convict is executed by means of firing squad.

Answer 28

Death by musketry

Question 29

The convict is enclosed in a compartment and an obnoxious or asphyxiating gas is introduced. The most common gas used is carbon monoxide.

Answer 29

Death by gas chamber

Question 30

is the deliberate and painless acceleration of death of a person usually suffering from an incurable and distressing disease.

Answer 30

Euthanasia or Mercy killing

Question 31

Intentional or deliberate application of the means to shorten the life of a person. It may be done with or without the consent or knowledge of the person

Answer 31

Active euthanasia

Question 32

There is absence of the application of the means to accelerate death but the natural course of the disease is allowed to have its way to extinguish the life of a person.

Answer 32

Passive euthanasia

Question 33

When an incurably ill person is allowed to die a natural death without the application of any
operation or treatment procedure.

Answer 33

Orthothanasia

Question 34

When there is an attempt to extend the life span of a person by the use of extraordinary treatments without which the patient would have died earlier.

Answer 34

Dysthanasia

Question 35

It is the deprivation of a regular and constant supply of food and water.

Answer 35

Death from starvation

Question 36

happens when the necessary food has been suddenly and completely withheld from a person.

Answer 36

Acute starvation

Question 37

happens when there is a gradual or deficient supply of food.

Answer 37

Chronic starvation

Question 38

refers to an external examination of a dead body without incision being made, although blood and other body fluids may be collected for examination.

Answer 38

Post mortem examination

Question 39

the injury, disease or the combination of both injury and disease responsible for initiating the trend or physiological disturbance, brief or prolonged, which produce the fatal termination.

Answer 39

Cause of death

Question 40

the explanation as to how the cause of death came into being or how the cause of death arose.

Answer 40

Manner of death

Question 41

includes doing any act upon the corpse which adds to the mental suffering or humiliation of the heirs of the victim or which offends the public.

Answer 41

Scoffing or Outraging