Q 01/05

What stolen material did the 1962 Alcatraz escapees turn into a raft and life preservers?

A) Bed sheets

B) Raincoats

C) Mattress covers

D) Canvas laundry bags

Answer · why

B) Raincoats

The escapees stitched and glued stolen raincoats into a raft and life vests, following a life-preserver design one of them found in the March 1962 iss...

Q 02/05

Which drug lord twice escaped Mexican prisons, once in a laundry cart and once by tunnel?

A) Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán

B) Griselda Blanco

C) Pablo Escobar

D) Carlos Lehder

Answer · why

A) Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán

Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán was wheeled out of Puente Grande in a laundry cart in 2001 and fled Altiplano in 2015 through a 1.5 km tunnel that opened un...

Q 03/05

The 1944 "Great Escape" saw Allied prisoners of war tunnel out of which German camp?

A) Stalag VII-A

B) Camp 020

C) Oflag IV-C

D) Stalag Luft III

Answer · why

D) Stalag Luft III

Stalag Luft III, near Sagan in German Silesia, was the Luftwaffe-run camp from which Allied airmen broke out on the night of 24 March 1944 through a t...

Q 04/05

In The Shawshank Redemption, what hides the escape tunnel Andy Dufresne dug over 19 years?

A) A blanket

B) A poster

C) A bookshelf

D) A wardrobe

Answer · why

B) A poster

A poster of Raquel Welch, after earlier pin-ups including Rita Hayworth, covers the hole Andy dug with his rock hammer; an irate Norton throws a stone...

Q 05/05

Which gangster left an Indiana jail in 1934 brandishing a gun reportedly carved from wood?

A) Al Capone

B) Machine Gun Kelly

C) John Dillinger

D) Bonnie Parker

Answer · why

C) John Dillinger

John Dillinger walked out of the Lake County jail at Crown Point, Indiana, on 3 March 1934 with a fake pistol, taking inmate Herbert Youngblood, who w...