Trivia Quiz on Capital Punishment

1. What was the penalty (in britain) in 1810 for stealing a pocket handkerchief

A) Hanging

B) Transportation to Australia

C) Public whipping

D) Imprisonment for life

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2. Who was the last person executed by the guillotine

A) Hamida djandoubi

B) Louis XVI

C) Marie Antoinette

D) Maximilien Robespierre

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3. Who was the first victim of the electric chair

A) William Kemmler

B) Albert Fish

C) George Westinghouse

D) Thomas Edison

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4. Which Infamous Figure Was Executed Whilst In Prison In Indiana On The 11 th June 2001?

A) Timothy McVee (The Oklahoma Bomber)

B) Aileen Wuornos

C) John Dillinger

D) Gary Gilmore

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5. In 1990 there were 99 public executions Suadi Arabia - Drugs How

A) Lethal injection

B) Stoning

C) Firing squad

D) Beheading

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6. In 1789 Britain legally adopted what officially

A) Beheading

B) Public flogging

C) Hanging - before it was burning

D) Transportation to penal colonies

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7. Alex Pierrepoint & His Assistant Royston Pickard Executed Who At Holloway Prison On 12th July 1955

A) Ruth Ellis

B) Diane Connolly

C) Barbara Smith

D) Maureen Blake

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8. Until 1819 technically you could be hung for what in Britain

A) Poaching a deer

B) Smuggling tea

C) Cutting down a tree

D) Trespassing on royal grounds

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9. Eddie Slovak only American to do what 31/01/1945

A) Executed desertion WW2

B) Awarded the Medal of Honor

C) Led American forces in Normandy

D) Captured and became a prisoner of war

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10. Structure for hanging criminals

A) Noose

B) Guillotine

C) Gallows

D) Gibbet

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11. In the bible - Leviticus - what was lapidation

A) Burning at the stake

B) Hanging

C) Drowning

D) Death by stoning

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12. How - two thieves convicted 1984 executed in Sudan Aug 1990

A) Hanged

B) Beheaded

C) Stoned

D) Crucified

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13. Jack Ketch 1663 1686 had what job

A) Guillotine operator

B) Beadle

C) Hangman

D) Jailer

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14. When Was The Abolition Of The Death Penalty Made Permanent In Great Britain

A) 1965

B) 1968

C) 1970

D) 1969

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15. What Did New Zealand Vote To Abolish In 1961

A) Abolish the monarchy

B) Abolish the Privy Council

C) Abolish the drinking age

D) The Death Penalty

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