Crime and Punishment Quiz 4
1. Name the area on the Burma-Laos-Thailand border which supplies most of the worlds Heroin?
2. Peter Sutcliffe confessed to 13 murders in 1987. What was his nickname?
3. 1920s housebreaker Gussie Delaney?s daring rooftop raids introduced what phrase into English?
4. The Crime Fighters most feared by 1920s US Gangsters were T Men. What does the T stand for?
5. What innocent part did Jack Mills and David Whitby play in the annals of British crime?
6. Two 10 year olds from Liverpool were charged with murdering which toddler in 1993?
7. What were the last names of Bonnie and Clyde?
8. Which Mafia Don is said to have been the role model for Marlon Brando?s performance in The Godfather?
9. Rodney Whitchelo was the first series exponent of what new crime that started in the 1980s?
10. In 1972 Agha Hasan Abedi founded what caring bank that would nurture developing countries?
11. In which sensational case was wireless telegraphy first used to apprehend a murderer?
12. At what number in Rillington place did john Christie live?
13. To the nearest two years when was the last hanging in Britain?
14. In 1981 which leading figure did john Hinckley wound?
15. In which month was President Kennedy assassinated?
16. In which Gloucester street was the west?s house of horror?s?
17. The old bailey figure of justice holds a sword and what else?
18. Who was Britain?s last chief hangman?
19. Who was the first British p.m. to be murdered while in office?
20. On august 6th 1890, auburn prison, New York, had the first what?
ANSWERS
1. The Golden triangle
2. Yorkshire Ripper
3. Cat Burglar
4. Treasury (As in US Treasury)
5. Train Driver and Fireman in the Great Train Robbery
6. Jamie Bulger
7. Parker and Barrow
8. Carlo Gambino
9. Blackmailing stores by contaminating food
10. Bank of Credit and Commerce International
11. Dr Crippen.
12. Ten.
13. 1964
14. President Reagan.
15. November.
16. Cromwell Street.
17. Scales
18. Harry Allen.
19. Spencer Percival
20. Death By Electrocution