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1. One of Hollywood's most memorable femme fatales was Catherine Tramell, a sultry suspect who, in the course of a murder investigation, engaged herself in a torrid affair with the lead cop, Det. Nick Curren, played by Michael Douglas.
Can you figure the name of this fick?
2. "Jagged Edge" (1985) was a courtroom thriller in which Jack Forrester (Jeff Bridges) was accused of killing his wife with a hunting knife. His attorney, Teddy Barnes (Glenn Close), defended him during the trial.
What was the instrumental piece of evidence that ultimately proved his guilt or innocence outside of the courtroom?
3. Throughout the history of America, many criminals have been put to death by capital punishment. Who was the first woman to have been executed by the United States government?
4. Mata Hari, who remains one of the most famous names in espionage history, was eventually arrested for spying for Germany during World War I. She had been given unusual freedom to travel during wartime due to her profession.
In what field of work was she engaged?
5. After finally being captured following a string of bank heists, what was alleged (although never proven) to have been Willie Sutton's response to police when they asked him why he robbed banks?
6. Leopold and Loeb are two of the more famous names in the criminal annals of the roaring twenties. What crime were they accused of committing?
7. Salome was one of the Bible's more interesting women. She had so enamored her stepfather Herod Antipas that he asked her to do her "Dance of the Seven Veils" at a banquet for his birthday. He promised if she agreed that he would give her anything she asked for as a reward.
What did she ask for and receive?
8. Bernie Madoff pulled off one of history's largest "Ponzi" schemes, bilking an estimated $65 billion dollars from many well-known entertainment figures, charitable organizations, unions, senior citizens' trust funds, business tycoons, athletes and others. Most had no reason to believe he was anything other than honest and trustworthy, as a result of his having been head of a very well known organization for years. What was the high profile group which Madoff served as non-executive chairman?
9. American citizens Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were a married couple found guilty of passing secrets pertaining to the United States Atomic Bomb program to the Soviet Union.
What punishment was meted out as a result of their being found guilty?
10. Arnold "The Brain" Rothstein, head of so-called The Jewish Mafia, was a notorious gangster dealing in bootlegging, drug trafficking, gambling and various other criminal activities.
What famous incident was he widely reputed to have masterminded?
11. The debonair Cary Grant played John Robie, a notorious (although retired) cat burglar/jewel thief in a 1955 Alfred Hitchcock-directed romantic thriller. The film was set on the French Riviera, and starred a beautiful actress near the end of her movie career. What was the film title and who was the actress?
12. Lizzie Borden of Fall River, Massachusetts was charged with murdering both her father and step-mother with a hatchet on August 4, 1892. What was the result of that trial?
13. On July 27, 1996 during the Summer Olympics, a bomb exploded at the Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta, Georgia killing two and injuring over a hundred. A security guard named Richard Jewell was the person who first spotted the bomb and alerted authorities. Nevertheless, he was labeled "a person of interest" and he was long hounded by newspaper journalists and television reporters.
Eventually he was cleared of all charges, and after an almost seven-year search the actual killer was finally arrested. Who was the real murderer?
14. Bruno Hauptmann was a German-born carpenter and criminal who illegally entered the United States as a stowaway on an ocean liner in September of 1923.
Years later, for what famous criminal act was he tried and convicted?
15. Australian Caroline Grills was a mass murderer, who in 1947 murdered her 87 year old step-grandmother, sister-in-law Angelina Thompson, sister-in-law Mary Anne Mickelson and brother-in-law John Lundberg.
By what method did she do the killings?
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