Answer: Idris Elba
He played Russell "Stringer" Bell during the first three seasons of "The Wire", before he was shot by Omar Little and Brother Mouzone as retribution for killing Omar's lover and framing Mouzone for it.
From Quiz: "The Wire": The Fame that Later Came
Answer: A church stained glass window
Frank Sobotka and Major Valchek both attend the same church and when Frank Sobotka's stained glass window gets preference over his, it begins a season defining conflict which leads to the beginning of the Sobotka detail.
From Quiz: "The Wire" (Season 2)
Answer: Using fake money
Lovable addict Bubbles takes part in many scams over the five seasons, including the copper house, hook lift technique, stealing from an ambulance and so on. However, in episode 1 we witness him using coffee stained printed money to buy heroin from the pit.
From Quiz: "The Wire" (Season 1)
Answer: William Gant
In episode 1, D'Angelo Barksdale is seen in court for the murder of Pooh in one of the Barksdale drug towers. The two main witnesses are maintenance man William Gant and security worker Nakeesha Lyles. The Barksdales successfully intimidate Lyles. However, Gant testifies and pays the price as, despite the charge being beaten, the Barksdale crew wish to send a message so Bird murders him in a later episode.
From Quiz: "The Wire" (Seasons 1-5)
Answer: The murder of a state's witness
Carcetti pointed out that he had brought up the issue of police protection for witnesses to Royce in the prior year but nothing had been done. Royce's attempt at damage control by asking the police to slow down the investigation into the witness's death only made matters worse. After the election, it was discovered that the witness was actually the victim of a stray bullet.
From Quiz: "The Wire" -- Season Four: The Authorities
Answer: To seal up bodies in abandoned houses
Snoop and Chris were Marlo's enforcers; usually this entailed killing rivals or anyone who had crossed Marlo. But rather than leaving bodies on the street, Snoop and Chris took the victims-to-be into abandoned houses where they were killed and then covered with lime. Snoop and Chris then boarded up the properties, thus leaving the police to wonder where the bodies were.
From Quiz: "The Wire" - Season Four: The Dealers and Kids
Answer: Commissioner Burrell
Tommy Carcetti had initially been rebuffed when he approached Burrell, asking about any issues that had been neglected by the mayor. Burrell told him that he wouldn't violate the chain of command. But after Carcetti skewered Burrell at a council meeting, Major Valchek convinced Burrell that he should try to work with Carcetti. So Burrell shared with Carcetti some of the issues that he hadn't been able to resolve with the mayor, such as the cancellation of the next police academy class.
From Quiz: "The Wire" - Season Three: The Authorities
Answer: The projects towers
The politicians had decided to demolish the towers and build low cost housing there instead. Bodie and Poot reminisced about growing up there, with Poot being particularly sentimental. Bodie said it was just a building. The problem for them now was that they needed to find new territory to sell their drugs.
From Quiz: "The Wire" - Season Three: The Dealers
Answer: A stained glass window
Stan Valchek and Frank Sobotka both attended the same church. Valchek had collected money from police officers and firemen to have a custom stained glass window made featuring the police and firemen installed in the church. When he arrived with the window, he discovered that Sobotka had beaten him to it with a stained glass window depicting the dock workers.
From Quiz: "The Wire" - Season Two: The Authorities
Answer: He turned in a guard for the drug poisoning of several inmates.
Wee-bey told Avon that he was being harassed by prison guard Tilghman. Avon tried to talk to Tilghman but was rebuffed so he asked Stringer Bell to investigate him. Bell discovered he was buying drugs and selling them to prisoners, so Bell had Tilghman's supply tainted, causing the death of several inmates. Avon agreed to provide information on Tilghman to the officials in exchange for having his parole hearing moved up.
From Quiz: "The Wire" - Season Two: The Docks and Dealers
Answer: He was murdered.
William Gant was a maintenance man in the housing project where D'Angelo worked as a dealer, and he witnessed D'Angelo murder a man. Although he testified against D'Angelo, a security guard who also witnessed the murder recanted her testimony, and the case against D'Angelo fell apart. Several days later, Gant was killed by Barksdale's crew, apparently to send a message to anyone else who might think of testifying against them.
From Quiz: "The Wire" - Season One: The Dealers
Answer: Listening devices
The "wire" was the wire tap that the police detail had obtained which allowed them to get information on Avon Barksdale's operation. The wire was authorized for a specific period of time, and Lieutenant Daniels would use that fact to fight any attempt to shut down the detail. Besides the wire tap, the police also put listening devices on people who came in contact with Barksdale's crew and used one to bug his office.
From Quiz: "The Wire" - Season One: The Authorities
Answer: Four
The season starts with Police Commissioner Ervin H. Burrell on the job, but William A. Rawls replaces him. Then Cedric Daniels replaces him until he resigns and Stan Valcheck takes his place in the final montage.
From Quiz: "The Wire": Season Five? ...That's all???
Answer: His hair
Wee-Bey's little boy, Namond, has a long blast of hair that sticks out and down his neck, and in spite of warnings from parents, friends and the police, he keeps it and flaunts it.
From Quiz: "The Wire": 12 Year Old Boyz In Tha Hood
Answer: Michael
Michael pretended to be against Randy but surprised the boys when he hit one of them with his book bag.
From Quiz: "The Wire"
Answer: Stringer Bell
McNulty believed that Bell was the mastermind behind all the drug trade in Baltimore, and defied Daniels to chase him.
From Quiz: "The Wire": Season Three
Answer: Frank Sobotka
Frank Sobotka was a union chief on the docks who was knowingly and unknowingly becoming increasingly more involved in organized crime.
From Quiz: "The Wire": Season Two
Answer: Judge Phelan
Judge Phelan pulls McNulty aside after D'Angelo is acquitted of murder charges and the series begins.
From Quiz: "The Wire": The Drug War is Hell
Answer: Lance Reddick
He played Cedric Daniels who went from being a lieutenant to captain to major to Deputy Commissioner and finally Commissioner in season 5. He was known as a reasonable guy, but one who followed orders and had ambitions within the department. He headed the Major Crimes United during the first three seasons.
From Quiz: "The Wire": The Fame that Later Came
Answer: Studies the tides and current patterns as proof of his theory
Originally the 14 Jane Does are assigned to Baltimore County. Yet McNulty. wanting to screw over his old boss Bill Rawls, uses the current patterns to prove that the location the bodies washed up in is not where the murder took place, managing to trace them back far enough to make them assigned to Baltimore Homicide division.
From Quiz: "The Wire" (Season 2)
Answer: Kevin Johnston
After a drinking session, Carver, Herc and Prez decide to head up to the projects, frustrated by the passive nature of the wiretap method. They try to intimidate the occupants and Prez ends up blinding a boy by gun-bucking him for sitting on his car. A torrent of abuse from the towers then reins down forces the trio to flee.
From Quiz: "The Wire" (Season 1)
Answer: Pushes a mop and bucket, pretending to be a cleaner
Bodie is picked up by the police and taken to a detention centre after a shakedown in the Pit. Despite being severly beaten, he manages to escape by pretending to be a cleaner. He then hitchhikes back from the country to the Pit.
From Quiz: "The Wire" (Seasons 1-5)
Answer: Security detail officer for Mayor Royce
Herc took the assignment because he thought it would lead to a promotion, which it did, but not for the reason he suspected. He was promoted after he walked in on Mayor Royce and his assistant in a compromising situation. Herc initially was convinced that he was in trouble, but after talking to Major Valchek, he realized that the event might help his career, which it did when Royce had him promoted, apparently to keep him quiet.
From Quiz: "The Wire" -- Season Four: The Authorities
Answer: His family sold them
Mrs. Donnelly asked one of the other students to deliver clothes to Dukie and to make sure she didn't give them to any of the adults in the house. After Prez gave Dukie more clothes, Prez asked a student why Dukie was still showing up in dirty clothes, and she told him that "his people sold them". Prez then took Dukie under his wing - giving him food and washing his clothes for him.
From Quiz: "The Wire" - Season Four: The Dealers and Kids
Answer: She was running for city council and wanted a "uniform" next to her.
Marla Daniels was bitterly disappointed when her husband revoked his retirement papers; she wanted him to go to law school. Their marriage disintegrated, and he moved out. He started a relationship with ADA Rhonda Pearlman but kept it under wraps so that he could appear with his estranged wife in public. She was running for city council and believed that having a police lieutenant in his dress uniform at her side would help her campaign. He felt he owed it to her.
From Quiz: "The Wire" - Season Three: The Authorities
Answer: Omar's crew member, Tosha
Tosha had pretended to be looking for a lost child and was able to disarm the guard while the rest of Omar's crew entered the house. However the guards at the back of the house were alerted, and Omar's team had to rush out in a flurry of gun fire. During the exchange, Omar's boyfriend, Dante, accidentally shot Tosha.
From Quiz: "The Wire" - Season Three: The Dealers
Answer: He studied the currents to prove that the body was dumped in the water in the Baltimore city limits.
Detective McNulty recovered the body in the Baltimore County waters, but he wanted to make sure the murder was assigned to Baltimore city to get back at his old boss for assigning him to harbor duty. He mapped out the currents and determined the body had been tossed in the water within the city limits. Rawls tried unsuccessfully to get the Coast Guard or county police to take the murder so that he wouldn't have an unsolved murder on his records.
From Quiz: "The Wire" - Season Two: The Authorities
Answer: A surveillance van
Frank Sobotka was tired of being harassed by the police so he decided to get even. He sent Horse down to the police station, and he stole a police surveillance van. The dock workers drove it into a shipping container, put a union bumper sticker on the van and shipped it off. As it made stops around the country, the local dock workers would add their own bumper sticker, take a picture of the van and send the picture to Major Valchek.
From Quiz: "The Wire" - Season Two: The Docks and Dealers
Answer: A college economics class
Stringer Bell was Avon's right hand man, and he was committed to running the operation as a business. He even wanted to profitably operate a printing shop that was used as a front, and he would lecture his employees on the topics he learned in class.
From Quiz: "The Wire" - Season One: The Dealers
Answer: McNulty
Neither Detective McNulty nor Judge Phelan was happy that D'Angelo Barksdale was found not guilty after a witness changed her testimony. After McNulty told Phelan that Avon Barksdale's crew was involved in several murders and that no one was investigating Barksdale, Phelan called Deputy Burrell, with the result being that a detail was set up to do so.
From Quiz: "The Wire" - Season One: The Authorities
Answer: A copy machine
Bunk buys the kid's partner a McDonald's combo, and then convinces the boy that his partner is ratting him out, and he'd better take a lie detector to prove his innocence. The lie detector is just a copier, but the boy spills all the beans.
From Quiz: "The Wire": Season Five? ...That's all???
Answer: Snoop
Snoop is given a long sales pitch about the finer points of nail guns in the first scene in the season and is finally sold on what the salesman describes as "the Cadillac of nail guns." For his assistance he is given a $140.00 tip. The gun powder activated, .27 caliber nail gun turns out to be one of the key characters in the show.
From Quiz: "The Wire": 12 Year Old Boyz In Tha Hood
Answer: Spider
In one episode, Cutty asks Michael about Spider and Michael responds "Why don't you ask his mom?" So Cutty then knows that Spider doesn't come around anymore because he talks to his mom.
From Quiz: "The Wire"
Answer: Dennis "Cutty" Wise
Cutty knew Avon and Wee-Bey in prison, but Cutty was noncommittal, and thought about going straight. D'Angelo was acquitted of charges in episode one/season one.
From Quiz: "The Wire": Season Three
Answer: Maj. Stanislaus 'Stan' Valchek
Valchek was angry because Sobotka donated a stained glass window to a local cathedral before he could do it. He didn't think Sobotka should have had that much money.
From Quiz: "The Wire": Season Two
Answer: Avon Barksdale
McNulty is the only one who seems to know Avon exists because Avon is such a master at covering his tracks.
From Quiz: "The Wire": The Drug War is Hell
Answer: Dwight Tilghman
Dwight Tilghman is a correctional officer at the prison in which Wee-Bey is held. One of the murders Wee-Bey was convicted of was Officer Tilghman's cousin, hence he makes Wee-Bey's life difficult and continually singles him out for harsh treatment.
From Quiz: "The Wire" (Season 2)
Answer: No-Heart Anthony
In episode 4 the police attempt to get a back story for Omar Little in order to build up intelligence in the Barksdale detail. While in the patrol car with Kima, Bubbles tells the story of his brother, No-Heart Anthony, who shot himself when being chased by police but survived with a minimal contact wound, hence the new name. Kima has never heard of him yet but McNulty later in the episode is familiar with his story which excites Bubbles.
From Quiz: "The Wire" (Season 1)
Answer: A pit beef sandwich with horseradish and some tater salad
Wee-Bey is probably the highest soldier in the Barksdale organisation (only under Avon and Stringer). After season 1's operation against the crew is successful, Wee-Bey admits to most of the murders (including some he didn't commit). During the interview, he says he will admit to more for a pit sandwich and more tater salad. Incidentally, the first one he admits to after the food is William Gant.
From Quiz: "The Wire" (Seasons 1-5)
Answer: She was gravely injured when their house was fire-bombed
Randy was in trouble at school after a girl falsely claimed she was raped in a bathroom while Randy stood lookout. To avoid having the school officials call his foster mother, Randy told them that he would tell them about a murder. Prez called Major Daniels, who recommended that Carver talk to Randy, but Carver handed the assignment to Herc, who naturally bungled it and let one of the dealers know that Randy was the snitch. Randy was then bullied by the other kids until the dealers turned up the heat and fire-bombed his house.
From Quiz: "The Wire" - Season Four: The Dealers and Kids
