Crime and Punishment Quiz 5
1. How did Anne Bonney become notorious in the 18th Century?
2. In Italy, what is the Neapolitan equivalent of Sicily's feared Mafia??
3. By what names are Partners in Crime, Robert Parker and Harry Longabaugh better known?
4. Name the civil servant acquitted of leaking Falklands War secrets to a Labour MP?
5. Who was assassinated at Manilla airport in 1983?
6. By what name is the unknown murderer who killed five women in the East End of London in 1888 remembered?
7. What fleet-footed IRA kidnap victim from the 1980?s was never seen again?
8. Which outlaw did Bob Ford kill?
9. How was Edward Teach better known?
10. Douglas Goody was one of the members of a gang famed for what
11. In the 17th Century which judge sat for the so-called Bloody Assizes?
12. Hawley Harvey were the first names of which murderer?
13. On August 6th 1890, Auburn Prison, New York, had the first what?
14. In what decade was flogging finally abolished in Britain?
15. What weapon was used to kill Bulgarian defector Georgi Markov in London in the 1970s?
16. In the 1990s which of the Krays was found guilty of drug trafficking?
17. Who shot the person believed to have shot President Kennedy?
18. Who was the first British PM murdered whilst in office?
19. In the 1970s who became the first convict executed in the US for 10 years?
20. Which doctor was at the centre of the Profumo affair?
21. Which criminal was released by Pontius Pilate instead of Jesus?
22. Where did Rudolf Hess spend his last years in prison?
23. Name either of Jack the Rippers victims called Mary?
24. What was the name of the street from where Frederick West operated?
25. Why does Harry Allen have his name in criminal history?
26. Which famous assassin said to his victim as he shot him ?Sic Temper Tyrannis??
27. What is the Flying Squad in Cockney Rhyming Slang terms?
28. Which brothers were the main south London gangsters that were rivals of the Krays?
29. When John Stonehouse disappeared in the 70?s of which midlands town or city was he the MP?
30. True or False, you can still be executed for certain crimes in this country?
ANSWERS
1. She was a Pirate
2. The Camorra
3. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
4. Clive Ponting
5. Benigni Acquino
6. Jack the Ripper
7. Shergar
8. Jesse James
9. Black Beard
10. The Great Train Robbers
11. Judge Jeffrey?s
12. Dr Crippen
13. Death by Electrocution / Electric Chair
14. 1940s
15. An Umbrella (injected with poison)
16. Charlie
17. Jack Ruby
18. Spencer Percival
19. Gary Gilmore
20. Stephen Ward
21. Barabas
22. Spandau
23. Mary Ann Nicholas and Mary Kelly
24. Cromwell Street
25. Britain's last official hangman
26. John Wilkes Booth (to Lincoln, the south is avenged)
27. Sweeney Todd
28. The Richardsons
29. Walsall
30. False