Q 01/05

As a prosecutor in the 1980s, Giuliani was credited with popularising which police ritual?

A) The perp walk

B) The mugshot

C) The police lineup

D) The Miranda warning

Answer · why

A) The perp walk

The perp walk. In 1987 he sent officers onto a Wall Street trading floor to handcuff a trader, who was photographed weeping; the charges were dropped ...

Q 02/05

Time made Giuliani its Person of the Year for 2001 after weeks of speculation it might pick which man?

A) Saddam Hussein

B) Mullah Omar

C) Osama bin Laden

D) Ayman al-Zawahiri

Answer · why

C) Osama bin Laden

Osama bin Laden. The title goes to whoever most changed the year, for better or worse, so many argued for the al-Qaeda leader; Time chose Giuliani as ...

Q 03/05

Giuliani was widely nicknamed what after 9/11?

A) The Iron Mayor

B) America's mayor

C) Mr. New York

D) The Comeback Kid

Answer · why

B) America's mayor

America's mayor. Oprah Winfrey introduced him by that name at a memorial service at Yankee Stadium twelve days after the attacks, and it stuck for yea...

Q 04/05

Giuliani opened which late-night show's first episode after 9/11, replying "Why start now" when asked if it could be funny?

A) Late Show with David Letterman

B) The Daily Show

C) Late Night with Conan O'Brien

D) Saturday Night Live

Answer · why

D) Saturday Night Live

Saturday Night Live. Flanked by firefighters and police officers, Giuliani said the show should go on, then gave producer Lorne Michaels the punchline...

Q 05/05

Giuliani's father Harold served prison time in which New York prison?

A) Attica

B) Rikers Island

C) Auburn

D) Sing Sing

Answer · why

D) Sing Sing

Sing Sing. Harold Giuliani spent about a year and a half there for holding up a milkman in 1934, a story his son, the future prosecutor, said he only ...