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Crime 52 questions.
Generally real-life crime
Pub quiz question 3120 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: What macabre job brought fame to James Berry and Albert Pierrepoint?
  2. Answer: A: Hangman/Public executioner
  3. Categories: History (2) Crime (2)
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Pub quiz question 7071 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: What building boasts Traitors Gate which was opened to bring prisoners in from the Thames?
  2. Answer: A: The Tower of London
  3. Categories: Buildings (3) Royalty (3) Crime (3)
Pub quiz question 5395 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: What does the youth punishment ASBO stand for?
  2. Answer: A: Anti-social behaviour order
  3. Categories: Acronyms/Abbreviations (3) Crime (3)
Pub quiz question 3698 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: Aug '11, Which of the three people convicted for the death of Peter Connelly/Baby P was released less than halfway through his six-year jail sentence?
  2. Answer: A: Jason Owen
  3. Categories: Crime (8) Current Affairs (5)
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Pub quiz question 5630 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: In which year was the last judicial hanging in Britain?
  2. Answer: A: 1964
  3. Notes: *: Both Peter Anthony Allen and Gwynne Owen Evans on the same day for the murder of John Alan West.
  4. Categories: Crime (6) 1960s (4)
Pub quiz question 7481 by pjh
  1. Question: Q: Edward Russell's manslaughter trial in December 1935 was the last to take place where?
  2. Answer: A: House of Lords
  3. Categories: Politics (7) 1930s (7) Crime (8)
Pub quiz question 6969 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: Which multiple murder was refused permission to publish his autobiography "The History of a Drowning Boy?"
  2. Answer: A: Dennis Nielsen
  3. Notes: *: Murders from robberies in 1974, final victim 1975. Convicted 1976. Permission denied 2003. Died 2011
  4. Categories: Crime (6) 1970s (6) 2000s (6) Literature (6)
Pub quiz question 6970 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: Which former Special Constable committed the murders that Timothy Evans hung for?
  2. Answer: A: John Christie
  3. Notes: *: Murders between 1943-1953, Evans hanged for two in 1949 in 1950, Christie hanged in 1953
  4. Categories: 1940s (6) 1950s (6) Crime (6)
Pub quiz question 7047 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: Which ancient Roman building's night time lighting is changed from white to gold when someone anywhere in the world has the death penalty commuted?
  2. Answer: A: The Colosseum's
  3. Categories: Buildings (7) Geography (7) Politics (7) Crime (7)
Pub quiz question 3121 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: What was suspended in Britain in 1965 and finally banned in 1969?
  2. Answer: A: Capital Punishment
  3. Categories: 1960s (2) Politics (2) History (2) Crime (2)