Crime And Punishment Trivia Quiz

Answer: Shoplifting

In the fourth season, Marge was jailed for stealing from the Kwik-E-Mart. She claimed she had forgotten to pay for an item. After the townspeople rioted because the bake sale failed to raise enough money for a statue of Abraham Lincoln, Mayor Quimby had her released to help quell the trouble.
Of the incorrect answers, it was Maggie who shot Mr Burns, while Bart went to juvenile detention for the gift scam. Marge was arrested for drunk driving (although Homer had been behind the wheel) and was sent to rehab.

Answer: She was acquitted

Roxie Hart was a showgirl character that first appeared in a stage play "Chicago" in 1926. It was based on a real murder case.
A silent movie starring Phyllis Haver appeared in 1927, and it was remade in 1942 with Ginger Rogers as Roxie. A musical followed in 1975 and it was revived in 1996. In 2002 Renée Zellweger played Roxie in a movie based on the musical.
Roxie Hart had killed her lover but the plot showed her efforts to escape punishment. She competed for the attentions of lawyer Billy Flynn with another murderer, Velma Kelly. Both were cleared.

Answer: Adultery

When Hester Prynne was freed from jail in 1640s Massachusetts, a scarlet piece of fabric in the outline of the letter 'A' had been pinned to her clothing. In fact, Hester had an affair when she thought her husband was already dead, having been lost at sea.

She was reconciled to her husband who was not dead after all (obviously) but refused to name the father of the child she had conceived.

Answer: He was never told

The story of Josef K is often portrayed as a perfect example of the powerlessness of an individual's own actions when confronted with the power of the state. In a nutshell, Josef was arrested on his 30th birthday for a crime that was never explained to him, stood trial, again without being told why, and eventually executed, with no reason ever being given.

Answer: He retired to a hermitage

There are many tales surrounding the exploits of King Arthur and his knights, of whom Lancelot was one of the most trusted. Lancelot first came to prominence in "Le Chevalier de la Charrette", by Chrétien de Troyes. Both Guinevere and Lancelot see their affair as the beginning of the end for the Knights of the Round Table. Guinevere chose to become a nun, while Lancelot and eight of his kin retired to a hermitage, emerging only to help escort Guinevere's body to be laid to rest beside Arthur. Six weeks later, so the story goes, Lancelot himself died.

Answer: False

The lyrics probably say it all:
"Ten years ago on a cold dark night,
someone was killed 'neath the town hall lights.
There were few at the scene, but they all agreed,
that the man who ran looked a lot like me.

The Judge said son, what is your alibi,
if you were somewhere else, then you won't have to die.
I spoke not a word, though it meant my life,
for I'd been in the arms of my best friend's wife.

Oh, she walks these hills in a Long Black Veil
She visits my grave when the night winds wail
Nobody knows, nobody sees, nobody knows but me.."

The Dave Matthews Band, Johnny Cash and The Band were among those to record the song.
I hope you did not fall for the red herring, John Brown was the nasty sheriff in Bob Marley's song "I Shot The Sheriff."

Answer: Five years

The opening credits of the comedy "Porridge" had scenes of a prison van travelling to a railway station and then prison gates closing all played to a judge's spoken narration of: "Norman Stanley Fletcher, you have pleaded guilty to the charges brought by this court, and it is now my duty to pass sentence. You are an habitual criminal, who accepts arrest as an occupational hazard, and presumably accepts imprisonment in the same casual manner. We therefore feel constrained to commit you to the maximum term allowed for these offences: you will go to prison for five years." The narrator was Ronnie Barker, who played jailbird Norman Stanley Fletcher in three seasons and a movie between 1974 and 1977.

Answer: Her step-father

In fact Kate Austen's step-father was also, we later learned, her real father. Evangeline Lilly played Austen in six seasons of "Lost" between September 2004 and May 2010.

Answer: She was walled into a tower

Bellina was a dowdy, lonely, middle-aged spinster who gained for herself youth and beauty at the hands of an acolyte of an evil god. She was driven mad and took part in a series of gruesome murders. Her brother confined her to a tower, and while Sephrenia took the demons from her, there was no cure for Bellina's madness and she could affect anyone who came into contact with her. The knights walled her up into a tower, with just access for food until her death.
"The Ruby Knight" was the second part of the 'Elenium' trilogy by the American author David Eddings.

Answer: Transportation to Australia

This is not an ancient song as some imagine, but was written by Pete St John in the 1970s. While fictional in its own story, transportation to Australia was a common enough sentence not only in Ireland of the 1800s in which the song was set, but throughout Britain.
The song was first recorded in 1979 and was an Irish top 10 hit for Danny Doyle. It also became a firm favourite among supporters of the Republic of Ireland soccer team and the Ireland rugby team.