Q 01/05

Al Capone ran Chicago's bootlegging empire for years, but which crime finally sent him to federal prison?

A) Extortion

B) Tax evasion

C) Racketeering

D) Bribery

Answer · why

B) Tax evasion

Tax evasion earned Al Capone an 11-year sentence and a $50,000 fine in October 1931. Prosecutors had learned to prove a gangster's hidden income from ...

Q 02/05

Killers posing as a police raid shot seven men of Bugs Moran's gang in a Chicago garage on which holiday?

A) St. Patrick's Day

B) New Year's Eve

C) Valentine's Day

D) Halloween

Answer · why

C) Valentine's Day

Valentine's Day 1929 became a byword for gangland killing, yet nobody was ever convicted of the murders. The likely target, Bugs Moran, was running la...

Q 03/05

Federal agents shot bank robber John Dillinger dead as he walked out of which kind of Chicago building?

A) A movie theater

B) A downtown bank

C) A train station

D) A dance hall

Answer · why

A) A movie theater

A movie theater called the Biograph was showing the Clark Gable crime drama Manhattan Melodrama that night. John Dillinger tried to flee when agents c...

Q 04/05

Which newly opened federal prison took in Al Capone in 1934 and let him play banjo in the inmate band?

A) Leavenworth

B) San Quentin

C) Folsom

D) Alcatraz

Answer · why

D) Alcatraz

Alcatraz received Al Capone in August 1934, and good behaviour won him a place in its band, the Rock Islanders. The group gave regular Sunday concerts...

Q 05/05

Which Las Vegas casino did mobster Bugsy Siegel take over and open in 1946, months before he was shot dead?

A) The Sands

B) The Flamingo

C) The Stardust

D) The Tropicana

Answer · why

B) The Flamingo

The Flamingo opened on December 26, 1946, struggled without a finished hotel and shut for weeks. A sniper killed Bugsy Siegel through a window in Beve...