Truly Heinous True Crime
The name of the amusement park located in Vernon Township, NJ, that killed 6 people when in operation from 1978 to 1996. 3 fatalities occurred in the "tidal wave pool"
What is Action Park?
Fun fact: Action park was so dangerous that the owners created their own insurance company to insure themselves as no insurance agency was willing to cover the park.
What region of France is most known for their Champagne production?
What is the Champagne region! (NorthEastern France)
Famous TV personality and homemaker extraordinaire who was found guilty and served time for insider trading.
Who is Martha Stewart.
In what country is it tradition to eat Kentucky Fried Chicken on Christmas day?
What is Japan
Classic Disney!
What was the first film ever created by Disney?
What is Steamboat Willie
What was the medical specialty of Dr. Christopher Duntsch, aka "Dr. Death", who, while practicing medicine for two years at Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, killed two patients and paralyzed or seriously injured 31 others.
What is neurosurgery.
Christopher Duntsch is sentenced to life in prision and will be eligible for parole in 2045 when he is 74.
The name for a drink made up of orange juice and vodka?
What is a screwdriver
Bernie Madoff is famous for this type of investing scam where money from new investments goes to pay previous investors.
What is Ponzi Scheme.
Which Native American friend to the settlers acted as an interpreter?
Who was Squanto.
The Disney Channel!
Which Disney Channel movie features Marnie the witch?
What is Halloweentown.
This Ohio city was home to the "Torso Murderer" who beheaded and dismembered victims from 1935-1938 and whose identity is still unknown.
What is Cleveland.
Which US president was elected President of the U.S. in 1932 on a pledge to end National Prohibition?
Who was Franklin D. Roosevelt
What major fast food chain was tied to a 24 million dollar promotion scam that was perpetrated by Jerry Jacobson between 1989 and 2001?
What is McDonalds.
Who was the first President to Pardon a Turkey?
Who is John F Kennedy
Disney Parks!
What attraction was "flight-tested" by U.S. astronauts before it was opened to the public?
What is Space Mountain
How many years did Lawrence "Larry" Singleton serve in prison for raping 15 year-old Mary Vincent, severing her arms, and pushing her from a cliff in 1978?
What is 8 years. (Sentenced to 14 years, served 8 years.) Miraculously, Mary Vincent survived and testified against Lawrence in court.
What is Absinthe traditionally flavored with?
What is wormwood.
Name of the company that hid billions of dollars of debt through accounting "loopholes" and the use of special purpose entities. After stocks plummeted, the SEC conducted an investigation that ultimately resulted in the 24 year prison sentence of CEO, Jeffery Skilling.
What is Enron.
What British Holiday is named after a guy who tried to blow up a government building?
What is Guy Fawkes day.
Disney Franchises!
Introduced in the 2015 film, Star Wars: the Force Awakens, Rey is introduced as a scavenger that was left behind on this planet when she was a child.
What is Jakku?
In the 2006 Florida Lotto murder of Abraham Shakesphere, what fact about the victim tipped authorities off to his murder after his family received a fake letter from "him" reassuring them that he was okay?
Abraham was illiterate.
What is the name for the label on a bottle of bourbon signifying that it is a product of a single distiller in a single season—aged for a minimum of 4 years in a federally bonded warehouse, and bottled at 50% ABV?
What is Bottled in Bond.
The name of American business woman and founder of Theranos who committed fraud by falsely claiming her product, the Edison blood testing device, could complete standard blood tests with a single drop of blood.
Who is Elizabeth Holmes.
Who directed Home Alone?
Who is Chris Columbus
Disney History!
Before it was a film, Mary Poppins was a novel that was written by this cantankerous British author who was portrayed by Emma Thompson in the 2013 Disney movie "Saving Mr. Banks".
Who was P.L. Travers.