Al Capone
Prohibition
St. Valentines Day Massacre
Vocabulary
Geography/Today in History
Celebrities
Super Random Trivia
The Untouchables
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.
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What prison did Al Capone serve time in?
Alcatraz
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What were the two amendments that created and then later repealed Prohibition?
The 18th and the 21st
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How many men were killed in the St. Valentine's Day Massacre?
7
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What was a secret bar called during Prohibition?
a speakeasy
600
What is the capital of Illinois?
Springfield
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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.
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What was the nickname Al Capone wanted to go by?
Snorky
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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?
