Can you name the most common murder weapons & methods (U.S.)?

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Murder Weapons Quiz

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Published: April 6th, 2009
Category: Miscellaneous
Plays: 490,650

Tags: Weapon Quizzes, common, murder, method, victim, 2007

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	thegrimreaper:	Apr 6th, 2009 at 04:46 GMT	42 points
	fun game...thank you to Clue! lol

	greeneyes:	Apr 6th, 2009 at 04:47 GMT	23 points
	how very morbid...

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	TheQuiz:	Apr 6th, 2009 at 04:53 GMT	64 points
	Suffocation should work

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	Derrald:	Apr 6th, 2009 at 04:56 GMT	35 points
	dang, I tried everything I could for asphyxiation - smothering, suffocation - ah well.

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	BHW:	Apr 6th, 2009 at 04:56 GMT	74 points
	whats the difference between murdering with poison and narcotics?

	Zax:	Apr 6th, 2009 at 04:58 GMT	20 points
	yay for getting the bonus answer!

	Escaho:	Apr 6th, 2009 at 05:00 GMT	31 points
	BHW: Narcotics generally refer to drugs (drug overdose, effect to the body), while poison refers to toxic substances (i.e. - lacing food with poison). As for asphyxiation (the only one I missed), I even tried 'suffocation', 'gassing', 'choking' and 'lack of oxygen'. Really, how much closer can you get?

	mutedara:	Apr 6th, 2009 at 05:03 GMT	22 points
	ok seriously i tried blunt object. beating with object and all kinds of random items. is the "s" on objects that important

	Winnie:	Apr 6th, 2009 at 05:09 GMT	23 points
	Got all of them apart from 'Asphyxiation'. I agree that suffocation, etc should work as well. =/

	nerd:	Apr 6th, 2009 at 05:09 GMT	15 points
	i agree with angela. i typed "blunt object" and was shocked that nothing came up...i think the singular form should be accepted.

	radiosilence:	Apr 6th, 2009 at 05:13 GMT	3 points
	I'm going to brag about answering all of them correctly. Hooray for being a journalist. I'll have to try again if there really is a bonus answer.

	nixipixi:	Apr 6th, 2009 at 05:20 GMT	5 points
	I typed suffocation and it took it for me ... maybe they've fixed it?

	yankeessuck8991:	Apr 6th, 2009 at 05:23 GMT	78 points
	"gravity" isn't on here?

	hydra351:	Apr 6th, 2009 at 05:24 GMT	4 points
	there are a few days where i'm glad i played hitman: blood money

	santinit:	Apr 6th, 2009 at 05:27 GMT	0 points
	I think "pills" should work for "narcotics"

	hoganoid:	Apr 6th, 2009 at 05:30 GMT	4 points
	i was gonna put "piano wire" and piano works for blunt objects also, i tried kicks and punches, neither worked for personal weapons

	SowCrates:	Apr 6th, 2009 at 05:34 GMT	19 points
	...I typed in "bare hands" without typing in just "hands" and only realize my stupid mistake a minute later. I guess my thinking was that you wouldn't say "Brock Samson kills henchmen with his hands", you'd say "Brock Samson kills henchmen with his BARE hands".

	Nathan Jones:	Apr 6th, 2009 at 05:36 GMT	1 point
	Got one bonus answer. Only missed fire for the main answers.

	annebd:	Apr 6th, 2009 at 05:48 GMT	8 points
	Got all of them. I spend way too much time watching Law & Order derivatives.

	Salukimars:	Apr 6th, 2009 at 05:49 GMT	33 points
	So....Chuck Norris murdered 854 people last year?

	mungar:	Apr 6th, 2009 at 06:06 GMT	5 points
	Are there any more bonus answers other than Explosives?

	MghtyRoach:	Apr 6th, 2009 at 06:06 GMT	72 points
	sigh I see the fine art of defenstration has been lost on this generation.

	Matt91486:	Apr 6th, 2009 at 06:24 GMT	11 points
	blunt instruments should be accepted for blunt objects.

	Father_Time:	Apr 6th, 2009 at 06:29 GMT	24 points
	is there a page on the fbi stats that defines what constitutes narcotics vs. poison? I don't understand how narcotics can qualify as murder and not be poison. Were they force fed the narcotics or what? Also surprised that 'car' didn't make the list of weapons.

	truth in advertising:	Apr 6th, 2009 at 06:31 GMT	100 points
	So nobody murdered anyone by running them over with a car in 2007?

	dummo:	Apr 6th, 2009 at 06:45 GMT	14 points
	I would have thought strangulation and asphyxiation would overlap anyway. Technically any act of strangulation IS/ RESULTS IN asphyxiation, and therefore they should either A) only include asphyxiation (and leave out strangulation as a separate answer) or B) include 'smothering' and 'strangulation' as separate answers and get rid of the term asphyxiation completely

	dummo:	Apr 6th, 2009 at 06:54 GMT	13 points
	I probably didn't explain that too well but strangling is an act, asphyxiation is the result. So they should either include 'strangling' and 'smothering' as separate answers or just 'asphyxiation' in general as one answer.

	SowCrates:	Apr 6th, 2009 at 07:14 GMT	54 points
	How many cases of somebody being put into a room then having the door deleted and the person left to starve occur every year? Or did you prefer to kill your Sim with cooking/repairing without skill or stranding it in the swimming pool?

	GoonerLover66:	Apr 6th, 2009 at 07:17 GMT	13 points
	I thought it was great that most Cluedo weapons were accepted. Leadpipe works for Blunt object :D

	F20101992:	Apr 6th, 2009 at 07:37 GMT	5 points
	"Punching" should be acceptable for personal weapons.

	k3lit0:	Apr 6th, 2009 at 08:16 GMT	1 point
	smothering, suffocation, choking should all count. I used google to check my spelling on Asphyxiation and it said 'exfixiation,' though I don't know about that. :P Still, 'choking' would be a nice fix for the people who don't watch a lot of L&O. Also I figured poison meant using some chemical/substance to kill someone but Narcotics is separate, that's weird but I guess you get the info elsewhere so whatevs. :) Good quiz.

	Rzeziol:	Apr 6th, 2009 at 08:21 GMT	4 points
	What's the difference between 'Strangulation' and 'Asphyxiation'? My dictionary won't answer me on that one ;_;. Anyway, I got 8 + 1 bonus (missed asphyxiation and fire)

	davidr:	Apr 6th, 2009 at 09:06 GMT	0 points
	@Rzeziol: Strangulation is compression of the neck, which causes death by asphyxia, by stopping blood reaching the brain or both.

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	Bethannie:	Apr 6th, 2009 at 09:38 GMT	12 points
	got all 10 +1....but it involved a whole lot of failed attempts....got desperate in trying to get my last one(drowning)...trained dog attack (well it happened in an old episode of Columbo!)...hypnotising someone into commiting suicide (I watch way too much rubbish TV!)...scaring someone to death (I think that was in a Poirot!)...

	davidr:	Apr 6th, 2009 at 09:39 GMT	6 points
	The distinction between narcotics and poison is one of intent. If you give somebody narcotics and they die, things went wrong; if you give somebody poison and they die, things went right. The FBI's pages say that they include manslaughter by gross negligence in the stats so I'm guessing that getting high with somebody who overdoses might count under that, especially if you were injecting it into them and/or you supplied the drugs. Or hitting them over the head with a really big bag of crack. Or would that be `blunt object'?

	Zalx:	Apr 6th, 2009 at 09:46 GMT	27 points
	Tried 'Blunt Instrument'. Nothing. Tried 'Heavy Object'. Nothing. Tried 'Hitting someone with something'. Nothing. Tried 'Candlestick'. Got it!