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FBI Visual Recognition Quiz: Understanding Key Moments and Figures

This quiz tests your knowledge of the FBI's key moments and historical figures through visual recognition. Identify what each picture represents concerning the FBI.

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1 What does the following picture show?  An FBI Agent tags the cockpit voice recorder from EgyptAir Flight 990 on the deck of the USS Grapple (ARS 53) at the crash site on November 13, 1999.   FBI agents from the Washington Field Office with a tactical vehicle standing by for the 2009 Presidential Inauguration   FBI agents from the Washington Field Office with a tactical vehicle standing by for the 2009 Presidential Inauguration

2 What does the following picture show?  An FBI Agent tags the cockpit voice recorder from EgyptAir Flight 990 on the deck of the USS Grapple (ARS 53) at the crash site on November 13, 1999.   Agents in training on the FBI Academy firing range   An FBI Agent tags the cockpit voice recorder from EgyptAir Flight 990 on the deck of the USS Grapple (ARS 53) at the crash site on November 13, 1999.

3 What does the following picture show?  Lester J. Gillis, also known as "Baby Face" Nelson.   FBI badge and gun   FBI Mobile Command Center, Washington Field Office   FBI agents from the Washington Field Office with a tactical vehicle standing by for the 2009 Presidential Inauguration

4 What does the following picture show?  Lester J. Gillis, also known as "Baby Face" Nelson.   FBI Mobile Command Center, Washington Field Office   FBI agents from the Washington Field Office with a tactical vehicle standing by for the 2009 Presidential Inauguration

5 What does the following picture show?  Lester J. Gillis, also known as "Baby Face" Nelson.   FBI badge and gun   FBI Mobile Command Center, Washington Field Office

6 What does the following picture show?  FBI Mobile Command Center, Washington Field Office   J. Edgar Hoover Building, FBI Headquarters   FBI Mobile Command Center, Washington Field Office   FBI agents from the Washington Field Office with a tactical vehicle standing by for the 2009 Presidential Inauguration

7 What does the following picture show?  J. Edgar Hoover Building, FBI Headquarters   FBI badge and gun   FBI agents from the Washington Field Office with a tactical vehicle standing by for the 2009 Presidential Inauguration

8 What does the following picture show?  FBI agents from the Washington Field Office with a tactical vehicle standing by for the 2009 Presidential Inauguration   J. Edgar Hoover, FBI Director from 1924 to 1972.   FBI Mobile Command Center, Washington Field Office   FBI badge and gun

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the FBI issued a 2002 terrorism alert after Michael John Hamdani invented a story about terrorists entering the United States as part of a plea bargain.
  • the Duquesne Spy Ring consisted of 33 Nazi spies (one pictured) arrested by the FBI in 1941 and sentenced to serve a total of over 300 years in prison in what is the largest spy ring conviction in the history of the United States.
  • the Quadro Tracker detection device, which was advertised as being able to detect drugs, weapons, explosives, alcohol, missing people, precious metals, dead pets, and lost golf balls, was denounced by the FBI as a fraud.
  • members of the Chinese Hand Laundry Alliance faced surveillance, interrogation, and harassment by the FBI.
  • after long-standing racketeering allegations, the FBI raided Chicago's Pui Tak Center, then known as the On Leong Merchants Association Building, in 1988.
  • Johnny Madison Williams Jr., one of the most successful bank robbers in American history, was nicknamed "The Shootist" by the FBI because of his modus operandi of firing into the air at the beginning of each heist.
  • U.S. activist Kit Bakke went on from being considered a terrorist with a 400-page FBI file to become a nurse for children with cancer.
  • Native American activist Robert Robideau was acquitted in the 1975 shooting deaths of two FBI agents, for which his cousin Leonard Peltier was later convicted and is serving two life sentences.
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