Murder 118128

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1   According to the Bible, which murderer did the crowds demand that Pilate release instead of Jesus?
A   Barabbas. In all four Gospels, Pontius Pilate offers the crowd a choice—traditional during the Passover—to release one prisoner. The crowd chose Barabbas, who was reportedly a rebel or insurrectionist involved in a murder, while calling for the crucifixion of Jesus.

2   Who was the King when Thomas a Becket was murdered?
A   Henry II. The murder occurred in Canterbury Cathedral on December 29, 1170. This event was a culmination of Becket’s conflict with the king over the rights and privileges of the Church.

3   Which Russian mystic and faith healer did Prince Felix Yusupov and his co-conspirators famously murder in 1916?
A   Grigori Rasputin. Prince Yusupov and a group of aristocrats believed Rasputin’s influence over the Tsar and Tsarina was destroying the Russian Empire. According to the legend, the conspirators had a difficult time killing him—reputedly surviving poisoning and multiple gunshots before finally drowning in the Malaya Nevka River.

4   Who did The Casket Letters implicate in the murder of her second husband, Henry, Lord Darnley, in 1567?
A   Mary Queen of Scots. Mary’s enemies produced these letters—which they alleged she wrote to the Earl of Bothwell—as evidence against her. Consequently, they used these documents to claim that she had conspired with Bothwell to orchestrate Darnley’s murder.

5   Whose murder took place at Birla House, Mumbai, on 30 January 1948?
A   Mahatma Gandhi. He was assassinated by Nathuram Godse, a Hindu nationalist, who believed Gandhi was too accommodating towards Muslims. The assassination took place in the compound of Birla House, now known as Gandhi Smriti.

6   Which leader was born in present-day Hungary in about 406AD, murdered his co-ruler and brother, Bleda, in 445 and died on his wedding night in 453AD?
A   Attila the Hun. He ruled the Hunnic Empire

7   Which ill-fated British monarch met a grisly end at Berkeley Castle in September 1327 following his forced abdication?
A   Edward II. He was deposed by his wife, Queen Isabella, and her lover, Roger Mortimer, and was later found to have been killed, most likely on September 21, 1327.

8   If you have committed fratricide, who has been murdered?
A   A brother (Latin: frater “brother”); also, in a military context, death by friendly fire.

9  Whose murder prompted the British government to hang James Hanratty in 1962, a case that the public eventually dubbed the “A6 murder”?
A   Michael Gregsten. The “A6 murder” remains one of the most controversial cases in British legal history. For decades, campaigners maintained Hanratty’s innocence, but DNA evidence analysed in 2002 finally confirmed his guilt, proving he was indeed present in the car at Deadman’s Hill where the crime occurred.

10   In 1920, prosecutors accused which American silent film star of the rape and murder of actress Virginia Rappe, triggering one of Hollywood’s earliest and most notorious scandals?
A   Roscoe ‘Fatty’ Arbuckle. Although a jury ultimately acquitted Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle of all charges, the surrounding scandal nonetheless destroyed his career. The Arbuckle case in 1921 was Hollywood’s first major “trial of the century.” Despite the jury writing a formal apology to Arbuckle for the injustice he suffered during the three trials, the newly formed “Hays Office” (the industry’s moral censor) banned him from the screen, effectively ending the career of one of the highest-paid stars of the silent era.