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Crime & Punishment 020812 is a selection of 10 questions. Crime & Punishment 020812 is the filename to differentiate it from other Themed Questions. Feel free to use any of these questions and answers for your own quizzes. Just keep in mind that you cannot republish them in any format.
1 Who killed Jack (The Hat) McVitie?
A Ronnie Kray.
2 Which notorious Chicago hoodlum died of syphilis in 1947?
A Al Capone.
3 Which great train robber, escaped British justice by settling in Brazil?
A Ronnie Biggs.
4 Who was acquitted of double murder but was then successfully sued for the same crime in the civil courts in 1996?
A O J Simpson (Orenthal James Simpson)
5 Who was the last woman to be executed in Britain?
A Ruth Ellis (She shot her lover David Blakely).
6 Which murderer fled to by ship to America with his lover, but was arrested enroute thanks to a wireless telegraph message. He was hanged in 1910?
A Dr. Crippen. (Hawley Harvey)
7 In March 1981, John Hinkley III shot and wounded which American President?
A Ronald Regan.
8 Oswald Cobblepot is a devious crime-boss who is seldom seen without one of his trick-umbrellas. How is this Batman villain better known?
A The Penguin, he uses his nightclub, the Iceberg Lounge, as a front for his criminal activities.
9 Which politically active Chinese artist was arrested for “Economic Crimes’ in 2011?
A Ai Weiwei
10 Deriving its name from a Spanish word for ‘a stick’, what method of capital punishment was last used in Spain in 1974?
A Garrotting