Al Capone
Prohibition
St. Valentines Day Massacre
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200

What was Al Capone's nickname?

Scarface

200

What is Prohibition?

Constitutional amendment outlawing alcohol


200

What was the date of the St. Valentine's Day Massacre (including the year)?

February 14, 1929

200

What is a bootlegger?

Someone who smuggled alcohol during Prohibition

200

What lake is Chicago on? *BONUS - name all five Great Lakes

Chicago is on Lake Michigan. The other four are Lake Huron, Lake Superior, Lake Eerie, and Lake Ontario


200

Who has won more Grand Slams - Venus or Serena Williams?

Serena

200

What is the highest-grossing restaurant in the United States?

McDonald's ($40.4 bil)

200

Where did Ness say Nitti was when Stone asked him?

 

400

How did he die?

heart attack

400

What did "G-Man" refer to, and what did the "G" stand for?

FBI agent - "G" stood for "government"

400

What did the assassins dress up as to lure the victims into the garage?

Police Officers

400

What does it mean for a place to be "dry"?

It is illegal to sell alcohol.

400

What was the name of the sheep who was the first mammal ever cloned, in 1996?

Dolly

400

Who dis?

Post Malone

400

What identity document is required to travel to different countries around the world?

400

Why was Capone so confident that he would be found not guilty at his trial?

The jury had been bribed.


600

What prison did Al Capone serve time in?

Alcatraz

600

What were the two amendments that created and then later repealed Prohibition?

The 18th and the 21st


600

How many men were killed in the St. Valentine's Day Massacre?

7

600

What was a secret bar called during Prohibition?

a speakeasy

600

What is the capital of Illinois?

Springfield

600

Which two actresses have been married to Brad Pitt?

Angelina Jolie and Jennifer Aniston

600

What are these Scrabble game pieces called?

Tiles

600

What did it mean to be "untouchable"?

They couldn't be corrupted/bribed.

800

What was the nickname Al Capone wanted to go by?

Snorky

800

What was the name of the axe-wielding old lady who went around "smash-smash-smashing" saloons and bars?

Carrie Nation

800

What was the name of the mobster who was the head of the Irish gang that Capone had slaughtered?

Bugs Moran

800

What is bathtub gin (the answer is NOT just gin made in a bathtub)?

Homemade alcohol made in jugs too tall to be filled with water from a sink tap

800

Alcatraz is on an island in a bay named for which city?

San Francisco

800

Name TWO of these judges from "America's Got Talent". *DOUBLE POINTS IF YOU CAN NAME THEM ALL

Terry Crews, Howie Mandel, Heidi Klum, Sofia Vergara, and Simon Cowell

800

What country uses approximately four billion miles of toilet paper each year?

 

China

800

How many years was Capone sentenced to? 

1000

What was Capone's wife's first name?

Mae  

1000

The "King of Bootleggers" who created his own drug and transport companies, then hired men to "rob" him so he could sell the alcohol illegally. Also, he killed his wife and got away with it.

George Remus

1000

What was the name of the German Shepherd who was killed during the massacre?

Highball

1000

mammal

a warm-blooded vertebrate that generally gives live birth

1000

Which New York borough did Al Capone grow up in? *BONUS - name all five boroughs

He grew up in the Brooklyn. The other four boroughs are: Manhattan, The Bronx, Queens, and Staten Island

1000

In a bizarre bit of celebrity behavior, which record-breaking singer dangled his baby from the third-floor balcony of a German hotel on November 20, 2002?

Michael Jackson

1000

Who is the NFL's all-time leading rusher?

Emmitt Smith of the Dallas Cowboys

1000

How did Nitti die?

Ness threw him off the building, and he landed on/in a car below.

1200

Where was Al Capone at the time of the St. Valentine's day Massacre?

At his Florida home

1200

Who was the President who succeeded Hoover and was partially responsible for the repeal of Prohibition?

Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR)

1200

Why was Bugs Moran not killed?

He was running late.

1200

What was liberty cabbage? BONUS: Why was it called that?

sauerkraut - the name was changed due to anti-German sentiment during WWI

1200

Slobodan Milosevic was the leader of which Soviet country when he was put on trial for war crimes?

Yugoslavia

1200

Which celebrity singer was the victim of an infamous "wardrobe malfunction" during her song with Justin Timberlake at the 2004 Super Bowl halftime show?

Janet Jackson

1200

What was the purpose of this button on the driver's-side floorboard of cars?

It turned on and off the headlight's high beams.

1200

What did the judge eventually do with the jury at Capone's trial?

He switched them out for a different jury.

1400

What was Capone's first crime that he was ever arrested for?

He was driving drunk and hit a taxi.

1400

Who was the President from 1929 to 1933 who refused to end Prohibition?

Herbert Hoover

1400

Where did the St. Valentine's Day Massacre take place (at what kind of business)?

A commercial garage

1400

temperance

moderation in or abstinence from the use of alcoholic beverages

1400

What was the name of the author that the Ayatollah Khomeini tried to have killed because of a "blasphemous" book he wrote called, "The Satanic Verses"?

Salman Rushdie

1400

What is Rihanna's real name?

Robyn Fenty

1400

"A fear of open spaces" describes what phobia?

agoraphobia

1400

What was written in blood on the elevator wall where Wallace and the bookkeeper were murdered?