A short, sharp, shock of a quiz.
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Question of
Who was Robben Island’s most famous inmate?
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Al Capone
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Nelson Mandela
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Napoleon Bonaparte
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To be bastinadoed, is have what part of the body beaten with a stick?
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Back
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Backside
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Feet
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‘One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich’ and ‘Gulag Archipelago’ were penned by which Soviet dissident?
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Andrei Sakharov
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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TitsianTabidze
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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?
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Elizabeth Fry
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John Howard
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Joseph-Ignace Guillotine
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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?
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Bermuda
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Hong Kong
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Isle of Man
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Question of
Born Michael Peterson, what did ‘Britain’s most violent prisoner’ change his name to?
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Clint Eastwood
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Charles Bronson
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Marlon Brando
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Question of
Alcatraz translates into English as what (jail) bird?
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Albatross
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Gannet
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Seagull
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Question of
Of these who was NOT held in the Tower of London?
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Rudolf Hess
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The Kray Twins
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Mary I of Scotland (QoS)
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Question of
Which of these dictators did time both before AND after ruling his country?
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Slobodan Milosevic
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Ayatollah Khomeini
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Saddam Hussein
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In 1747, Jacobite Simon Fraser, aka Lord Lovat, was the last man in Britain to be officially executed by what means?
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Decapitation
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Burning
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Hanged, drawn, and quartered
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