Q 01/05

A famous 1933 photo shows Bonnie Parker with a pistol in hand and what clenched in her teeth?

A) A cigarette

B) A cigar

C) A corncob pipe

D) A matchstick

Answer · why

B) A cigar

A cigar made Bonnie look like a hardened gun moll in newspapers nationwide. She later asked a kidnapped police chief to tell the world that she did no...

Q 02/05

Which carmaker was sent a letter, signed Clyde Barrow, praising the speed of his V-8 cars?

A) Henry Ford

B) Walter Chrysler

C) Louis Chevrolet

D) Ransom Olds

Answer · why

A) Henry Ford

Henry Ford was sent the note about six weeks before the ambush, in which the couple died in one of his stolen V-8s. Some doubt the letter is genuine.

Q 03/05

What did Bonnie Parker write in jail and on the run, one example of which police found in a hideout?

A) Songs

B) Plays

C) Poems

D) Novels

Answer · why

C) Poems

Poems were how Bonnie passed her months in a Kaufman jail in 1932. Her best known, The Trail's End, is often called The Story of Bonnie and Clyde.

Q 04/05

What was Bonnie Parker's legal marital status when she died beside Clyde Barrow in the 1934 ambush?

A) Never married

B) Divorced and single

C) Married to Clyde Barrow

D) Married to another man

Answer · why

D) Married to another man

Married to another man, Bonnie died wearing the ring of Roy Thornton, the husband she wed at fifteen. They never divorced, though they last met in 192...

Q 05/05

Although remembered as bank robbers, which targets did Bonnie and Clyde actually prefer to rob?

A) Mail trains and armored cars

B) Small stores and gas stations

C) Jewelers and pawnshops

D) Payroll offices and post offices

Answer · why

B) Small stores and gas stations

Small stores and gas stations made up most of their hold-ups. Only ten or so bank robberies are attributed to the whole gang.