Your Hands Are Tied Trivia Quiz

Answer: piracy

Little is known about Anne Bonny's early years but she was probably born between 1697 and 1700 in Ireland. Her family moved to America when she was young; as a teenager she and James Bonny moved to Nassau. She became a pirate's mistress, then a pirate herself, finally being captured by the British in 1720. She avoided hanging only because she was pregnant. She and shipmate Mary Read were the only two women accused of piracy in the 18th century.

Answer: Adolf Eichmann

Otto Adolf Eichmann was taken into custody (under a false name) by U.S. forces at the end of World War II but escaped and eventually made his way to Argentina. He was captured by Israeli Mossad agents, brought back to Israel, found guilty of many war crimes and hanged. He is the only person to be executed in Israel after a civilian court conviction.

Answer: John Gotti

John Gotti was born in the Bronx, New York City, in 1940. He began working with street gangs as a teenager and was accepted into the Gambino crime family. He became the head of the family in 1986, escaping conviction on a number of charges until he was convicted of murder, conspiracy to commit murder and other charges in 1992. He died of cancer in the U.S. Medical Center for Federal Prisoners in 2002.

Answer: Sir Walter Raleigh

Walter Raleigh was a writer, poet, soldier and explorer. He played an important role in colonizing North America and sailed to South America in search of a city of gold. After Elizabeth's death in 1603 he was imprisoned in the Tower of London for allegedly being involved in a plot to kill King James I.

He was sentenced to death but King James spared his life. He was released in 1616 and led another expedition to South America. While there, some of his men attacked a Spanish settlement in Venezuela. Upon Raleigh's return to England the Spanish ambassador insisted Raleigh's death sentence be reimposed.

It was, and Raleigh was executed in 1618.

Answer: Elizabeth Bathory

Elizabeth Bathory was born to a noble family in Hungary in 1560 or 1561. She married Ferenc Nadasdy in 1575; his wedding gift to her was a castle in Slovakia. After his death in 1604 she and four others were accused of torturing and killing hundreds of girls. One person accused her of bathing in the blood of virgins in the hope that this would preserve her youth. Elizabeth was neither tried nor convicted but in 1610 was walled up in a set of rooms in her castle until her death in 1614.

Answer: Ned Kelly

Edward "Ned" Kelly, an Australian of Irish descent, was convicted of three murders and hung in 1880. Some consider him a folk hero, representing resistance against the Anglo-Australian ruling class of the time. His body was dissected by medical students and the details of the burial of his remains were clouded and confusing. In 2008, Kelly's body, minus his head, was found at the site of Pentridge Prison in Coburg, Victoria. His grand-niece supplied DNA to prove the identity.

In the early days of Australian settlement "bushranger" was a term applied to escaped convicts who were adept at surviving in the bush or wilderness. The term was eventually applied to armed robbers who lived in the bush.

Answer: Al Capone

New York City-born Alphonse "Al" Capone moved to Chicago to make money by smuggling alcoholic beverages during America's prohibition era. He was linked to other criminal activities including murder, bribery of public officials and prostitution. He served eight years in federal prison for tax evasion. Capone died of a heart attack in 1947.

Answer: Charles Manson

Charles Manson was the leader of the "Manson Family" commune in California in the 1960s. A songwriter of sorts, Manson thought "Helter Skelter" by the Beatles heralded a race war. To begin that war he dispatched members of his commune to kill six people including actress Sharon Tate. He, along with three of his followers, were convicted of murder.

Answer: Rudolf Hess

Rudolf Hess was appointed Deputy Fuhrer to Adolf Hitler in 1933. As Germany became enmeshed in World War II, Hess felt underutilized. Thinking that Germany would become mired down in the invasion of the Soviet Union, Hess flew to Britain hoping to broker a peace treaty which would remove one front of fighting. Landing in Scotland, he was immediately arrested and held in British custody until the end of the war. He was then returned to Germany, tried at Nuremberg for war crimes, and sentenced to life in prison. He died in Spandau Prison, Germany, in 1987.

Answer: Lizzie Borden

Lizzie Borden was a resident of Fall River, Massachusetts. She was accused of the axe murders of her father and stepmother in 1892. The trial made national headlines but Borden was acquitted after the jury had deliberated for only an hour and a half. Though she might otherwise be only a footnote in history, her name has been immortalized by a jump-rope rhyme about her supposed exploits and a song by the Chad Mitchell Trio.