Showing posts with label Crime. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Crime. Show all posts

5/18/11

Truly a Jury of His Peers.



One bootlegger, on trial during prohibition, was acquitted because the jury did what?
(note: it was not a hung jury, nor a jury that found him innocent)

Criminalcoholic



At the start of prohibition, some towns were so convinced that Alcohol was the cause of most crime that they sold all of their...whats?
(hint, it has to do with crime)

5/4/11

Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time.



What amendment to the U.S. Constitution (ratified on 1/16/1919) effectively started Prohibition (the banning of alcohol)?

4/4/11

In Memory of MLK



What was the name of the assassin who shot Martin Luther King Jr. on April 4, 1968?

1/21/10

All-consuming trivia





Alferd Packer was convicted of cannibalism in the territory of Colorado and was sentenced to execution, but was never executed. Why?

Note: he did not just die in prison