Going Postal Trivia Quiz

Answer: Florida

St. Petersburg is a city in the Tampa Bay area of Florida. The St. Petersburg Times were renamed to Tampa Bay Times on January 1, 2012. In his article Karl Vick described a symposium regarding violence at work which was sponsored by the US Postal Service. In his article he mentioned that "....in some circles excessive stress is known as 'going postal'...".

Answer: Edmond

The shooting at Edmond was the first known act of violence in a postal office. It most probably gave rise to the term "Going Postal". Fourteen of the twenty victims died and Patrick Sherrill committed suicide.
Tulsa is the second largest city in Oklahoma. Both Peoria and Chicago are in Illinois.

Answer: Day Trader

Apparently the killings were due to Barton's heavy financial losses over a period of two months. A total of twelve people were killed by Barton - three members of his family, four ex colleagues and five in a trading firm where he had suffered heavy losses. Another 13 people were injured in the attack. He committed suicide.

Answer: Vegetable fiber

Jute is the name of the plant out of which the fiber is spun for making fabric which is known as hessian cloth or burlap in North America. There are two plants in the Corchorus family, olitorius and capsularis, from which the fiber is produced, the latter being considered as of better quality.
The mill worker named Tazmal Hossein was arrested and accused of murder.

Answer: Standard Gravure

Standard Gravure, a rotogravure printing firm, was incorporated in 1922 and closed in 1992. On that fateful day Wesbecker entered the plant armed with an AK-47 and various pistols and shot dead eight people and injured twelve others before committing suicide. He had worked for the company for 17 years but at the time he was on disability leave.

Answer: Police Constable

Police constable L.S. Hasebeng, under investigation for rape, went through the prison complex at Goedemoed, Orange Free State, shooting up fellow officers and members of their families. He shot a total of eight people including a four year old girl and two other girls before committing suicide.

Answer: Manchester

The shooting took place in the warehouse of Hartford Distributors in Manchester. Omar Sheriff Thornton was accused of stealing beer from the warehouse and was forced into signing his resignation papers. He produced from his bag two automatic pistols and started shooting. He then committed suicide.

All the options are actual places in both Connecticut and England from which only Manchester was until 1974 part of Lancashire. In 1974 Manchester became part of the Greater Manchester area which is divided into ten boroughs.

Answer: Attache

Tang Jiansheng was working as a military attache in Mozambique for seven years. Following a disagreement with the First Secretary of the embassy he borrowed an automatic pistol with which he killed various members of the Embassy staff before being apprehended by security guards. He was sent back to China where he was tried and sentenced to death.

Answer: Michael Douglas

In the film Michael Douglas is William "D-Fens" Foster who is really having a bad day. After he is stuck in traffic he decides to walk to his destination. After trashing the grocery shop he is shot at by a couple of gangsters and he completely "Goes Postal". The other three options did take part in the film which was directed by Joel Schumacher.

Answer: Moist Von Lipwig

After Moist Von Lipwig comes within a whisker of death there really was no other choice. His task was to correct all the wrongdoings of the past. Havelock Vetinari is the Patrician of the city, Adora Belle Deraheart a rights activist with whom Moist falls in love and George Aggy is a retired senior postman who aids Moist in his unenviable task.