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Punishment

A short, sharp, shock of a quiz.

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  • Question of

    Who was Robben Island’s most famous inmate?

    • Al Capone
    • Nelson Mandela
    • Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Question of

    To be bastinadoed, is have what part of the body beaten with a stick?

    • Back
    • Backside
    • Feet
  • Question of

    ‘One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich’ and ‘Gulag Archipelago’ were penned by which Soviet dissident?

    • Andrei Sakharov
    • Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
    • TitsianTabidze
  • Question of

    Name the prison reformer who was instrumental in the 1823 Gaols Act which mandated sex-segregation of gaols, and female warders for female inmates to protect them from sexual exploitation?

    • Elizabeth Fry
    • John Howard
    • Joseph-Ignace Guillotine
  • Question of

    The last execution on ‘British’ soil took place in 1977 when two men were hanged for the murder of Richard Sharples, the governor of which territory?

    • Bermuda
    • Hong Kong
    • Isle of Man
  • Question of

    Born Michael Peterson, what did ‘Britain’s most violent prisoner’ change his name to?

    • Clint Eastwood
    • Charles Bronson
    • Marlon Brando
  • Question of

    Alcatraz translates into English as what (jail) bird?

    • Albatross
    • Gannet
    • Seagull
  • Question of

    Of these who was NOT held in the Tower of London?

    • Rudolf Hess
    • The Kray Twins
    • Mary I of Scotland (QoS)
  • Question of

    Which of these dictators did time both before AND after ruling his country?

    • Slobodan Milosevic
    • Ayatollah Khomeini
    • Saddam Hussein
  • Question of

    In 1747, Jacobite Simon Fraser, aka Lord Lovat, was the last man in Britain to be officially executed by what means?

    • Decapitation
    • Burning
    • Hanged, drawn, and quartered

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