Q 01/05

Which mark, said to be left by condemned Molly Maguire Alexander Campbell, still draws visitors to a jail cell wall?

A) A handprint

B) A footprint

C) A carved cross

D) A scorch mark

Answer · why

A) A handprint

A handprint in cell 17 of the old Carbon County jail is said to be the mark Campbell left to proclaim his innocence before he was hanged in 1877. The ...

Q 02/05

Which fictional detective's final novel, The Valley of Fear, borrowed its backstory from the Molly Maguires?

A) Hercule Poirot

B) Sherlock Holmes

C) C. Auguste Dupin

D) Father Brown

Answer · why

B) Sherlock Holmes

Sherlock Holmes meets a man whose past recalls the real undercover detective's years among the miners. Arthur Conan Doyle's novel first ran as a magaz...

Q 03/05

Mauch Chunk, where four Molly Maguires were hanged in 1877, was later renamed in honour of which Olympic athlete?

A) Jesse Owens

B) Bob Mathias

C) Jim Thorpe

D) Babe Didrikson

Answer · why

C) Jim Thorpe

Jim Thorpe never set foot in the town while he was alive. Two neighbouring boroughs merged and took his name after the athlete's death in 1953, and bu...

Q 04/05

Which grim object gave its name to the warning notices Molly Maguires were accused of sending to mine bosses?

A) A noose

B) A skull

C) A gravestone

D) A coffin

Answer · why

D) A coffin

A coffin, roughly drawn on the page, warned a mine boss to leave the area or die. Irish miners had brought the practice of sending such notices from h...

Q 05/05

Which private detective firm did railroad president Franklin B. Gowen hire to plant a spy among the Molly Maguires?

A) Pinkerton agency

B) Baldwin–Felts agency

C) Burns agency

D) Thiel agency

Answer · why

A) Pinkerton agency

The Pinkerton agency sent an operative into the coal fields under a false name, and his testimony later helped convict ten of the men who were hanged.