No Way in Hell Trivia Quiz

Answer: The Joker

Batman captures the Joker after he (the Joker) has attacked Gotham City Hall and hauls him off to Arkham. However, the Caped Crusader thinks something is amiss. The Joker was captured just a little too easily and quite a few of his gang members have also been transported to the asylum after a mysterious fire had left Blackgate Prison short of cells to hold them. Batman had every right to be worried because the Joker is not looking to escape he's looking to take over the whole madhouse.

It's Batman who has to find a way out as he has now finds himself alone and trapped in the confines of Arkham.

Not only are the Joker and his gang between him and freedom so are a bevy of the toughest villains Batman has ever confronted, including Scarecrow, Killer Croc, Poison Ivy and Bane.

The Riddler also sets Batman a series of puzzlers to solve but he doesn't physically make an appearance.

Answer: False

"The Shawshank Redemption" is a film based on the Stephen King novella "Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption and its setting is the Shawshank State Prison. Cold Mountain is the setting for another film based on a Stephen King story, 1999's "The Green Mile". Shawshank centres on Andy Dufresne, a banker serving two consecutive life sentences for murder, and his adaptation to prison life.

In typical Stephen King fashion the storyline holds a number of different threads that slowly intersect with the main story line and come together at the finish to present a complete picture.

These include Andy obtaining a rock hammer, purportedly to make stone chess pieces, and a large poster of Rita Hayworth. As time moves forward this poster becomes one of Marilyn Monroe and eventually Raquel Welch.

There's a thread that sees the warden running a labour racquet and having Andy launder the money and one of a prisoner, whose information could prove Andy's innocence, getting murdered. After being incarcerated for 19 years Andy suddenly disappears.

His escape comes as a surprise and how he did it remains a mystery until an angry warden launches one of Andy's stone pieces at the poster on the wall. It tears through it and reveals the tunnel that the intrepid Dufresne had been methodically chiseling out over the years.

Answer: Stalag 13

If war is Hell then these guys certainly enjoyed it. Hogan, played by Bob Crane, flanked by fellow Americans, Sergeants Carter and Baker, the Frenchman Corporal LeBeau and Englishman Corporal Newkirk conducted espionage and sabotage operations inside Germany whilst based at the prison camp.

They were able to come and go as they pleased through a series of ingenious tunnels that were spread out around the Stalag. They were also aided in their mission by the ineptness of the camp's Kommandant, Colonel Klink played by Werner Klemperer, so they ensured that no one did escape, thereby maintaining Klink's perfect record of zero escapes and keeping him in charge of the camp.

Despite running for six seasons between 1965 and 1971 and enjoying a good reception (pun intended) from viewers the programme received much criticism for trivialising the suffering of prisoners of war.

Answer: Deadman Wonderland

Ganta's classmates are slaughtered in front of him by a mysterious "Red Man" who disappears after implanting a crystal shard into Ganta's chest. Being the sole survivor makes Ganta the prime suspect. He is taken into custody, charged, tried, found guilty and sentenced to Deadman Wonderland.

There he is fitted with a collar that injects a deadly poison into his system. The poison will kill him unless he ingests a special candy every three days. Failure to do so will bring on an instant death. Set in a future Tokyo that has been devastated by a savage earthquake, the prison is open to the public to raise money that would go toward the rebuilding of the city.

This prison, however, holds a number of sinister secrets and Ganta will need to uncover them if he is to find the "Red Man" and prove his innocence.

Answer: Yes

The musical, written by Peter Pinne and Don Battye was launched on London's West End in 1995 and whilst the names of most of the characters were altered the personalities and traits were based on the people in the original television series. "Prisoner", the TV series, was initially set up as a 16 part mini series but it received such an enthusiastic response from the audience that four additional episodes were quickly added and then a series was developed that would run for eight seasons. Wentworth, the prison, proved to be a hotbed of feminism, homosexuality and social reform issues, themes that were still considered to be radical on Australian television during the late 1970s.

It also featured its own fair share of escapes with the first occurring in the last episode of its initial season when Frankie Doyle and Doreen break out.

In the early weeks of the second season Frankie is shot dead after three weeks on the run and Doreen is captured soon after and returned to the centre.

Answer: Prison Break

In what ranks as one of entertainment's most intricately designed and ingenious escape plots, a brilliant structural engineer, Michael Schofield played by Wentworth Miller, cleverly disguises clues and plans into an elaborate body tattoo and then commits a crime that lands him in Fox River so that he can rescue his brother, Lincoln Burrows (Dominic Purcell), who is sitting on death row for a murder that he did not commit. The Joliet Correctional Centre in Illinois, you would recognise it from the opening scenes of the 1980 movie "The Blues Brothers", is the setting for the fictional Fox River Prison during the first season of the series.

The second series moves away from this setting as it follows the prisoners who are now on the run. At the end of series two they are captured and find themselves incarcerated in Panama at the Penitenciaria Federal de Sona.

Answer: Richard B. Riddick

In the Xbox and Windows video game "The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay" the entire planet of Butcher Bay is desert and serves as the level one security (single max) of the prison. The second max is the first underground level and it serves as a fully operational mine site and in the triple max sector, the next level down, where Riddick is being held, the prisoners are considered extremely dangerous and are, therefore, kept under sedation.

They are brought out of this "cryostate" for two minutes every day for a period of exercise before being sedated again. Riddick manages to fool the machine by switching places with an inmate who is borderline catatonic and then kicking his way out of the cell. OK, I've taken you part of the way, to see the rest of the breakout you're going to have to play the game.

Answer: False

The revolt of the Dementors, who opted to join forces with the dark Lord Voldemort, would result in the mass breakouts of Death Eaters during 1996 (ten escaped, one of whom was Bellatrix Lestrange) and 1997. Prior to this it was considered to be impossible to escape due to the Dementor's Kiss, which would suck the happiness out of the inmates, leaving them trapped with depression in their own minds and, thereby, removing their will to break out.

The first escape was that of Barty Crouch Jr who was smuggled out of the prison by his father in 1982.

This was done by replacing his body in his cell with that of Junior's dying mother, disguised as Barty with the aid of Pollyjuice Potion. Sirius Black managed to escape in 1993 (see "The Prisoner of Azkaban") by changing into his animagus form, that of a dog.

This breakout remained as the only "unaided" escape from Azkaban.

Answer: Hole

Prisons, for many years, have provided inspiration for a variety of artists but most of these, such as Johnny Cash's "Folsom Prison Blues" (with that incredible line "I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die") through to The Clash's and Bobby Fuller Four's versions of "I Fought the Law", Sam Cooke's "Chain Gang" and The Zombies' "Care of Cell 44", are all written with the prisoner's reflection on what they did wrong and what they are now missing out on.
A number of artists have ventured into the realms of the prison escape though these attempts are generally unsuccessful. To this end listen to AC/DC's "Jailbreak" ("he made it out ... with a bullet in his back") and Iron Maiden's "Flight of Icarus" (you've heard the legend ... flew too close to the sun, wax melted, fell into the sea and died). The rarer bird is the one that sees the culprit actually make a clean getaway. The best examples that I can present are the Paul McCartney and Wings classic "Band on the Run" ("but we never will be found") and the outstanding number from Public Enemy "Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos", which sees our cell dweller make a break during the course of a prison riot. The line "53 brothers on the run and we are gone" is a good indication that the breakout was a success, however, this notion is somewhat contradicted by the song's film clip which shows the riot being quelled and the singer, Chuck D, being hung.

Humble Pie was Steve Marriott's project after his departure from the Small Faces. The track in the question is a ripping blues number and one of the best the band produced. Despite this and it receiving strong airplay the single failed to chart.

Answer: Phantom Zone

The Phantom Zone was originally discovered by Superman's father Jor-el who put it forward to the Krypton council that it be used as a means of imprisoning their most dangerous criminals, which was far more humane than the process of suspended animation that they were using at the time.

The Zone placed all the inmates into a ghost like existence where they could not interact with the outside universe but, at the same time, did not require food or water and they did not age. Escape from the Zone was felt to be impossible however, the shockwaves from major cataclysmic disturbances, such as the destruction of Krypton in Zac Snyder's 2013 movie "Man of Steel", have been known to create holes in the zone through which criminals could escape.

In comic books during the early 1980s it was revealed that the zone had a back-door, which also made escape possible.

In addition, Superman was able to put together an escape plan out of the Zone via a sentient universe called Aethyr.