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1. Henri Landru, the legendary French killer, was also known as the Bluebeard of France. In the period after WWI, he coldly carried out the killings of over ten people in small towns in particular. How did he find these unfortunate victims?

Answer: He would contact them via newspaper advertisements for lonely hearts.

Landru had a traveling second-hand business as a cover for his plots. He would convince lonely women, widows and others to join him and live with him after checking their finances via correspondence in advertisements. Then he'd dispose of them and burn them up in a furnace or oven! He was convicted and guillotined in 1922 for these acts. Many years later a supposed confession was revealed.
This question was written by Bruyere.

2. On "The Andy Griffith Show", what offense caused Gomer Pyle to arrest Deputy Barney Fife?

Answer: Illegal u-turn

This was the famous episode where Gomer chases Barney's car screaming "Citizen's arrest, citizen's arrest!"
This question was written by Richicago.

3. The "Golden Thread" which runs through the British system of Justice (and, it follows, the American, Canadian, and others) is "the immutable principle that everyone is innocent unless twelve good men and women and true are certain that the only possible answer is that they must be guilty." "____________ and the Golden Thread" is the title of a book about which of the following fictional defense attorneys?

Answer: Horace Rumpole

"Rumpole and the Golden Thread" (1983) by John Mortimer. Rumpole is a plonk-drinking, Wordsworth-spouting, Old Bailey hack, with a firm belief in the concept of "innocent until proven guilty".
Atticus Finch, of course, only appeared in one book, "To Kill a Mockingbird". His client in that book, Tom Robinson, was innocent, and everyone knew it, but that didn't stop the jury from finding him guilty.
Perry Mason, created by Erle Stanley Gardner, never seemed to care very much whether his clients were guilty or innocent. In fact, I always got the impression that he secretly preferred them to be guilty - it made his tricks and machinations, in getting them off, that much more impressive.
Martin Ehrengraf appears in short stories by Laurence Block. His clients are, by definition, never guilty. He never loses a case, but perhaps it's best not to look too closely at exactly how his clients are proved innocent.
This question was written by Agony.

4. Over the years, several dozen players have been "permanently banned" from Major League Baseball. Which of these banned players was not reinstated before his death?

Answer: Swede Risberg

Risberg was banished for his involvement in fixing the 1919 World Series. None of the so-called "Black Sox" (Risberg, Eddie Cicotte, Happy Felsch, Chick Gandil, "Shoeless" Joe Jackson, Fred McMullin, Buck Weaver, and Lefty Williams) were ever reinstated. Jenkins was expelled in September, 1980 after being arrested for marijuana possession, but he was reinstated by arbitration a few days later. Howe was expelled in 1992 after his seventh (!) drug offense, but was also reinstated by arbitration. Mantle was banned by Commissioner Bowie Kuhn in 1983 for serving as a casino greeter, but he was reinstated in 1985 by the new commissioner, Peter Ueberroth. This question was written by Stuthehistoryguy.

5. In January 2004 Armin Meiwes aka the "German cannibal" was sentenced to eight and a half years in prison for killing and eating Bernd-J�rgen Brandes. Which of the following statements about his case is NOT true?

Answer: After Brandes had died, Meiwes wasn't hungry any more and burned the body.

The incredible thing about this crime wasn't just the cannibalism, but especially the fact that Brandes volunteered to be killed and eaten. Although he had taken a considerable amount of cold medicine and sleeping pills, it took several hours until Brandes had lost enough blood to become unconscious. Meiwes finished the killing by stabbing him with a knife.

He cut Brandes' body in pieces and put them in the freezer. Bit by bit he managed to eat about 20 kilograms of it over the next few months. The police was tipped off by an internet user who had noticed that Meiwes was bragging about his crime. This question was written by Leau78.

6. The guilt or innocence of a young man rests in the hands of 12 jurors in the classic film, "12 Angry Men." Which of the following actors did NOT play one of the jurors?

Answer: Gig Young

This taut, compelling ensemble piece takes place in a steamy jury room with great performances across the board. Directed by Sydney Lumet and released in 1957, the cast also includes Lee J. Cobb, Jack Warden, Ed Begley and, of course, Henry Fonda who champions the accused's cause. By the way, by the standards of contemporary American law the film is chock full of legal no-no's, including two vocal bigots sitting on a jury. It just isn't done. Great flick.
This question was written by Nutmeglad.

7. The Pied Piper of Hamelin is known to have drowned the rats of that city in a nearby river, but many accounts have led to the belief that the Pied Piper story was based on a factual event. Nearly 130 children were found missing in Hamelin in 1284, and evidence points to a real man in the same description as the Pied Piper. What "clue" led historians to believe that this was the case?

Answer: A lost glass window in the church of Hamelin depicted a piper in colored clothing, as well as an inscription of the same thing, that pre-dates any Pied Piper stories.

This glass window was lost after it was replaced in 1660, but has been well documented. The inscription reads: "By a piper, dressed in all kinds of colours,
130 children born in Hamelin were seduced
and lost at the calvarie near the koppen".
This inscription led many historians to believe in a real-life Pied Piper, as the window would pre-date any Pied Piper story written. Though the real Pied Piper never led rats out of Hamelin (that was believed to be impractical), he was believed to have led 130 children of Hamelin to their early deaths.
This question was written by Trident87

8. This famous American poet and author suffered throughout his life from alcoholism. In his fortieth year, he was found in a dazed and incoherent state in Baltimore, Maryland, and died shortly thereafter. Until the late 1990s, he was presumed (understandably) to have died from delirium tremens during a bout of drunkenness. In the year 2000, however, a book was published which theorized that he may have been the victim of foul play. Who was he?

Answer: Edgar Allan Poe

At the time of his death, Poe's life seemed to be taking an upward turn; he had taken a pledge of sobriety, and had become engaged to childhood sweetheart Elmira Shelton; they were to be married in October, 1849. On September 27, Poe embarked on a speaking tour, which would conclude in Philadelphia. On October 3rd, he was found in an apparent drunken stupor on the streets of Baltimore, MD, and was taken to a hospital, where he died on October 7th. For a century and a half, it was accepted that Poe drank himself to death; only in the past decade has this been challenged.

In 1996, Dr. R. Michael Benitez theorized that Poe's symptoms indicated that he died of rabies. A more recent theory was put forth by John Evangelist Walsh in his book "Midnight Dreary: The Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe", published in May, 2000. Walsh states that Poe's death was brought about by an infamous voting scam known as "cooping". On the day of an election, gangs of ruffians would abduct, rob, and drug people and transport them to various polling places.

There, they would be forced to vote for the candidate the gang wished to see elected. "Cooping" frequently involved beatings and other forms of intimidation, and victims sometimes died afterward. It is a fact that there was an election in progress on the day Poe was found; he was also wearing borrowed clothes, his own having been robbed. This question was written by Jouen58.

9. Has a justice of the United States Supreme Court ever been impeached?

Answer: Yes

In 1804, Justice Samuel Chase was impeached on charges of having a judicial bias against President Thomas Jefferson and his allies. In 1805, he was acquitted on all counts and he continued to serve on the high court until his death in 1811. Many historians consider his acquittal significant in that it showed that judicial/political opinions could not be grounds for the impeachment of jurists.
This question was written by SKU.

10. In June of 1866, Laura Foster was murdered. James Grayson apprehended the suspected murderer, who was tried, convicted and hanged. In 1958, the Kingston Trio inaugurated the American folk music craze with their song about the murder. The song included the following lines: "This time tomorrow, reckon where I'll be? Hadn't it been for Grayson, I'd been in Tennessee." By what name was the murderer called in the song?

Answer: Tom Dooley

Thomas Dula (Tom Dooley's real name) had been working on the farm of James Grayson. Just after Tom left the farm, a posse arrived looking for him. James Grayson and the posse set out to find Tom, and Grayson found him first. He threatened him with a rock and this was sufficient for Tom to allow himself to be taken prisoner back to Grayson's farmhouse. Grayson did not need to brandish the rifle he had brought in case it was needed. It was later when the posse arrived that the rifle was required - to keep the posse from lynching Tom Dula!
This question was written by Uglybird.

Source: Author Leau

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