Murder Most Foul Trivia Quiz

Answer: Ronald Goldman

Goldman was a waiter and part time model who was caught up in the murder of Nicole Brown Simpson. It was stated at the trial that he was only there because he was returning a pair of sunglasses that Nicole had left at the restaurant.

Fuhrman was an investigator of the crime, Darden was one of the prosecution team and Ito was the trial judge.

Answer: Peter Kurten

Vampirism, cannibalism, rape and torture were all part of the depraved repertoire of Peter Kurten. After forty years of violence, bestiality and blood-lust he became the first serial-killer to be examined in depth by a criminal psychiatrist. He was executed on July 2, 1931. The other three people where among his victims.

Answer: Karla Faye Tucker

Karla Faye Tucker died by lethal injection in Texas on February 3, 1998. She had been convicted of the murder of Deborah Thornton and Jerry Lynn Dean in 1983.

Answer: John F. Kennedy

Norman Lewis wrote numerous travel and fictional books. He passed away at aged 95 in 2003.

Answer: Memphis

There is very little that hasn't already been said about Dr King. He was born Michael Luther King in Atlanta in 1926. He was renamed 'Martin' when he was around six years old. He was a major figure of the civil rights movement and was involved in the Montgomery bus boycott. Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964, he was killed by a rifle bullet to the neck in April 1968.

Answer: Robert LeRoy Parker

Despite robbing banks and trains, Butch Cassidy is not known to have actually killed anyone. Longabaugh was the real name of his partner, the Sundance Kid. Bonny was, of course, Billy The Kid, and Travis had joint command of the Alamo.

Answer: Robert Thompson

In February 1993, in a shopping centre in Liverpool, two year old Jamie Bulger was abducted, and later murdered by Thompson and Venables. At the time they were just 10 years old.

Answer: Joe Orton

Orton was battered to death in 1967 by his lover, Halliwell. After leaving Orton for dead, with nine hammer blows to the head, Halliwell committed suicide by taking a massive overdose of Nembutal. He actually died before Orton did.

Answer: Robinson

Dr Hawley Harvey Crippen murdered his wife so he could continue an affair with his mistress Ethel le Neve. He was eventually caught and arrested on board the Canadian liner "Montrose". He was hanged in 1910.

Answer: King Umberto I of Italy

After living in the US for a number of years, Bresci returned to Italy in 1900 and shot the King. His reason was in revenge for the massacre of workers in Milan in 1898. He was found strangled in his prison cell in 1901.

Answer: True

Despite his confessing to the murders he was never convicted for them. He was imprisoned for unrelated, earlier, rapes and robberies. Police at the time could not amass enough evidence to back up his confession. He was found stabbed to death in his cell on 26th November 1973.

Answer: Port Arthur, Tasmania

In April 1996, Bryant killed a total of 35 people, and wounded 18 others. Hungerford was the place where Michael Ryan shot dead 17 people, including himself. Dunblane was the scene of a school massacre when Thomas Hamilton murdered 16 children, a teacher and finally killed himself. George Hennard was responsible for the 24 deaths at Luby's Cafeteria in Texas.

Answer: Salvatore

Born in Italy in 1896, he eventually changed his name to Charles to spare his family the embarrassment of reading about him. He was called 'Lucky' after surviving a murder attempt. He is credited with, among other things, starting the modern heroin trade. He died in Italy in 1962 of a heart attack

Answer: She was the last woman to be hanged in Britain.

On Easter Sunday, 1955, Ellis murdered her boyfriend David Blakely. She was executed three months later. She was stunningly beautiful and her conviction and execution were unpopular at the time. Her executioner was one of Britain's most famous hangmen, Albert Pierrepoint.

Answer: 3

The first Pierrepoint to be appointed Official Executioner was Henry in 1901. He lasted until 1910, when he was dismissed for being too drunk to hang someone. Henry's brother, Thomas, was the next member to join the family business in 1906. He carried on working into his late 70s and finally retired in 1946. Albert, Henry's son, took up the trade as assistant to his Uncle Thomas in 1932.

He was appointed Chief Executioner to the United Kingdom in 1941. Albert was the most prolific and efficient hangman on record.

He is thought to have executed over 450 criminals, including 17 women, during his term of office. He is also credited with the fastest hanging on record, seven seconds from pulling the lever to pronoucement of death.