1.It was started by a police informer and former criminal by the name of Francoi s Vidocq.

Vidocq had four assistants, all former criminals. They had the blessin gs of the then minister of police, one M. Henrey, even though it faced fierce op position from local police departments. What was the name given to the organiza tion set up by Vidocq, which became a major force in later years?(Hint: All Agat ha Christie novels set in France mention it and it also gets a mention in one of the Hardy boys case files. A. The French Surete. 2.It was developed by a civil servant named William Herschell in India in 1860, whose job was to pay off pensioned Indian soldiers. He found that most of them c ouldn't write and they all looked the same to the European eye. They often colle cted their pensions twice or came back and collected the pensions of others. He developed a now common system to prevent this kind of fraud. What was the syste m that he invented? A. Fingerprinting. 3.The following was recorded by Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt: "I was sitting in my study when one of the maids burst in on me in a state of gr eat excitement. I looked up from my work and asked her what was the trouble. 'H e's up there-sitting on the edge of the bed, taking off his shoes!' she exclaime d. 'Who's up where, taking off his shoes?' I asked. 'Mr.___________' the maid replied." What is Mrs. Roosevelt talking about? A. Mrs. Roosevelt was referring to the ghost of Abraham Lincoln, which is suppos ed to haunt the White House. 4.What are the following : a) Rose Doree ("sensuousness and passion amorous exotic") b) Peachblow ('feminine beauty") c) Firelight ("mild affection") d) Auqagreen ("cool lakes in the north woods") e) Turquoise ("calm tropical seas") f) Caprice ("hilarious pink, carnival moods") g) Inferno ("burning buildings, panic, anarchy") h) Argent ("gray, everyday life") A. In the late 1920's and early 30's, the problem of making talkies in natural colors had not yet been solved. But George Eastman, the guy who invented Kodak, had evolved a process for tinting whole scenes. The Eastman tint ing was described as giving scenes "colors conforming to their emotional content ". The list given above were the mood colors worked out by Eastman Laboratories for the purpose. 5.At Dearborn, Michigan, Ford's factory town, stands the __________ Institute of technology and the Museum of American Industries. Near the door to the building, you can find the footprints of a great man, preserved in a hardene d sheet of concrete and inside the museum itself, the shoes which made these pri nts. Whose are these prints and what exactly happened? A. Ford had endowed the Edison Institute of Technology and the Museum of America n Industries $5000000 each. At the dedication of memorials, Edison, Ford and a g roup approached the buildings to enter. Near the door, was a freshly laid sheet of concrete around which the party began to walk. But not so Edison. As always, he took the shortcut and walked across the concrete. Though his shoes sank, he plodded ahead, and the delighted Mr. Ford ordered that the footprints be allowed to harden. Furthermore he made Mr. Edison remove and leave his shoes in the mus

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