Q 01/05

By which method was Ted Bundy executed at Florida State Prison on the morning of January 24, 1989?

A) Lethal injection

B) Electric chair

C) Gas chamber

D) Firing squad

Answer · why

B) Electric chair

The electric chair at Florida State Prison ended a nine-year wait: the sentence carried out was Bundy's third, passed in 1980, and he declined a last ...

Q 02/05

Ted Bundy used an obscure Florida law to carry out which ceremony in court while questioning a witness?

A) An adoption

B) A baptism

C) A marriage

D) A name change

Answer · why

C) A marriage

A marriage declared in court before a judge was legally binding in Florida, so when witness Carole Ann Boone accepted his proposal on the stand, Bundy...

Q 03/05

To hide an unwed birth, Ted Bundy's family told him as a child that his mother was which relative?

A) His aunt

B) His cousin

C) His sister

D) His stepmother

Answer · why

C) His sister

His sister was the cover story because his grandparents were raising him as their own son. Accounts differ on when Bundy found his birth certificate a...

Q 04/05

Which tan car, later put on show in a Tennessee crime museum, did witnesses in several states link to Ted Bundy?

A) Volkswagen Beetle

B) Chevrolet Corvair

C) Plymouth Barracuda

D) Ford Maverick

Answer · why

A) Volkswagen Beetle

The Volkswagen Beetle, a 1968 model, proved hard to pin down: witnesses called it tan or bronze, light brown or dark brown, metallic or not.

Q 05/05

Ted Bundy worked in 1971 at which kind of Seattle telephone service, beside a future crime writer?

A) A poison control line

B) A suicide crisis hotline

C) A missing persons tip line

D) A legal aid helpline

Answer · why

B) A suicide crisis hotline

A suicide crisis hotline in Seattle hired Bundy while he was a university honor student, and his co-worker there later described him as kind, solicito...