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1 The Warren Commission was set up to investigate the murder of which politician?
A John F. Kennedy. Lee Harvey Oswald assassinated him on November 22, 1963. The Warren Commission, led by Chief Justice Earl Warren, investigated the murder and concluded that Oswald acted alone.
2 American radical feminist Valerie Solanas attempted to murder which pop artist in 1968?
A Andy Warhol. Solanas fired three rounds into Warhol while he spoke on the phone before wounding art critic Mario Amaya. Following a schizophrenia diagnosis, a judge handed her a three-year prison sentence.
3 Which Austrian Chancellor did Nazis murder in 1934?
A (Engelbert) Dollfuss, during the July Putsch of 1934.
4 Who disappeared after the murder of nanny Sandra Rivett?
A Richard John Bingham. After allegedly killing his children’s nanny and attacking his wife in 1974, Lord Lucan vanished, leaving behind one of Britain’s greatest mysteries.
5 In which 1973 Terrence Malick film did Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek play a couple of psychotic murderers?
A Badlands. This neo-noir crime drama follows a 15-year-old girl (Spacek) and her boyfriend (Sheen) as they embark on a killing spree across the Dakota Badlands in 1959.
6 Who was murdered by Jack Ruby in November 1963?
A Lee Harvey Oswald. Ruby was an American nightclub owner who murdered Lee Harvey Oswald on November 24, 1963, two days after Oswald assassinated President John F. Kennedy.
7 Whom did the authorities accuse Jeremy Thorpe, the former Liberal Party leader, of conspiring to murder?
A Norman Scott. Despite Thorpe’s acquittal, the case and the resulting public outcry effectively ended his political career.
8 Which playwright wrote the 1935 verse drama about the murder of Archbishop Thomas Becket in “Murder in the Cathedral”?
A T S Eliot. Thomas Stearns Eliot (26 September 1888 – 4 January 1965)
9 In which Whitechapel pub did Ronnie Kray murder George Cornell in 1966?
A The Blind Beggar, shooting him in the head.
10 In the movie “Basic Instinct”, what is the primary murder weapon used by Catherine Tramell (Sharon Stone)?
A An ice pick. The killer stabbed rock star Johnny Boz to death during a sexual encounter.