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

Raincoats, more than 50 of them, were stitched into a raft and life vests and the seams sealed against the prison's hot steam pipes; the design came f...

Q 02/05

Which drug lord twice escaped Mexican prisons, reportedly in a laundry cart and later through a tunnel?

A) Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán

B) Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada

C) Rafael Caro Quintero

D) Amado Carrillo Fuentes

Answer · why

A) Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán

Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán is said to have left Puente Grande in a laundry cart in 2001; in 2015 he dropped through his cell's shower floor into a 1.5 ...

Q 03/05

Stalag Luft III, the Great Escape camp, stood at Sagan, a town now in which country?

A) Poland

B) Austria

C) Germany

D) Czech Republic

Answer · why

A) Poland

Poland: wartime Sagan is today the Polish town of Żagań; the Germans picked the site for its sandy soil, which made tunnels prone to collapse and the ...

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) Baby Face Nelson

Answer · why

C) John Dillinger

John Dillinger cowed his guards with what he later said was a whittled wooden pistol, then drove the sheriff's car across the state line, a federal of...