As the officials set up barricades to block off the streets of New York for the annual St. Patrick's Day Parade excitement in the city grows. People have their green attire picked out and ready to be worn. The pubs have fresh kegs full of beer just waiting to be drunk. Whatsername steps out into the streets and announces the contests the New York mafia will be sponsoring during this year's celebration.

New York Trivia sponsored by The Flying Circus
The first person to mail Whatsername will all the questions answered correctly will win $1.5 mill. If no one can answer all the questions by March 19th at 23:59, the winner of $1 mill will be the first person to send in the most correct answers.

When ThomasRourke first became Godfather of New York, he allowed people to set up crews within his city with a few rules (not auth in the traditional sense). Who was the first crewleader to take ThomasRourke up on this offer?

What two crewleaders did Marietta make the 'rulers' of New York?

What crewleader controlled New York but moved his HQ to Chicago and turned the control of the city to the then Godfather of Chicago?

At what time and on what date were the families of Gravol and AlfonsiTimello banned from entering New York?

What two crewleaders served under Deimne and both ran newspapers before taking Godfather of their own cities? What were their papers called?

What LHM shares the same name and bloodline as the first captain authed by the now retired New York Godfather TheDean?

On the same day ThomasRourke retired and Deimne took over as Godfather of New York, a Godfather of another city shot at Deimne. What was the name of that Godfather?

On what date did Godfather Whatsername obtain the rank of Don?

The same day TheDean took Godfather of New York one of his crewleaders died to a gun malfunction, what was the name of that crewleader?

What two crewleaders that were set up under TheDean share the same bloodlines and almost identical names to two current crewleaders?

Picture Find Sponsored by The Brigands
The overall winner of the competition will receive $1,500,000

It's simple enough, I have created snippets from the pictures of 12 completely random profiles, some hard, some not so hard. The person who can guess the most amount of correct answers will win; if it is joint the money will be split and so on. When replying please mobmail ShiftyWaffle your answers, as you may give others an advantage over your answers if you post them in the thread.
The closing date for the competition will be: Sunday 20th April 00:00 Mafia Time

The links to the competition snippets are:
Number 1
Number 2
Number 3
Number 4
Number 5
Number 6
Number 7
Number 8
Number 9
Number 10
Number 11
Number 12

Business District Competition Sponsored By Liberty Inc.
Please Join Liberty, Inc. in the New York Business District for a competition.

All the NY businesses will be open to the competition and anyone posting in them will receive a small prize from Francie.

The person who participates the most in the New York business district on St. Patricks day and through until March 19th at 23:59 will receive one million dollars. In the event of a tie, the cash will be split evenly among the winners.

A separate competition will be going on in the New York's Gateway to the Modern World. We will be having a block party with free beer and prizes for the best costume. Please come in and show and tell us what you are wearing for St. Patrick's Day. 1st prize is 500,000. 2nd prize 230,000. 3rd prize 200,000. Francie and Liberty, Inc. will be judging the costumes. All of these posts count toward the main prize listed above as well.

At the same time, we will be having a sing off. Come into New York's Gateway and sing your best and favorite songs. Anyone participating in the sing off will receive 10,000. As an added bonus, anyone able to sing more songs than Francie will receive an additional 50,000. The only rule is that you must not sing two songs in a row. You must wait for someone else to sing. There will also be a 50,000 prize for the most original song. All of these posts count towards the main prize listed above as well.

Short Story Contest sponsored by The Highway Men and The Snow Leopards
The Highway Men would like to give you the chance to win some cash by having you enter a short story competition. There are only two rules we require you to follow.

1) It needs to be themed around Ireland somehow
2) It has to be no longer than 500 words

Maybe it is a case you want to provide a fictional story, or you could give us a little bit of info about yourself before you arrived in the US? Who knows what you want to tell us about, just make it interesting!

Marks will be given for originality, and general quality. Punctuation and grammar are also an integral part of the judging process.

Prizes are $2 mill for first place and $1 mill for 2nd place. Stories are to be submitted in the conversation started by Tanda down the road.

Poker Night sponsored by The Cocky Type

To mark this day Datsik will be holding a special poker Tournament, if any of you are still sober enough to play. The tournament will cost $200,000 to join and will start at 23:59 (Mafia Time) on the 17th. As it is late at night Datsik thinks you may be safer with a bodyguard by your side as you stumble home. So, simple, this will be the prize - a bodyguard (or cash equivalent= $5.75million).

Information:
The game will be run in Datsiks usual poker room on a "Pokerstars" table. If you need help finding it dont hesitate to mail Datsik or join him in #NYPoker. Also note, if you want to play, send your money to Datsik. The Club ID is: 327323 and the Invitation Code is: CockyType The Tournament is now open for registering.

Casino Rewards and Jailbreaking Sponsored by The Long Island Leopards

The Blarney Stone in New York has been refurnished and is ready for all your gambling needs. All players (win or lose) in the next 24hrs will have their names put into a random draw and win cash prizes throughout the day. May the luck of the Irish be with you.

With all this commotion in the streets of New York, it is rumoured the police are ready to crack down harder than usual on Mafiosi. Saving fellow members of this thing of ours from the slammer could very well help you earn those stripes you've been wishing for. Look for the police to be tossing in people randomly throughout the day.

Pardon my mistake earlier, the venue for the short story contest will be constructed by Aalyshah not Tanda but it still will be here on the streets shortly.

This all looks like excellent fun, that picture games is genius.

Datsik buys another pint of guiness and heads to his poker club to set up.

Egwene runs from the casino in exhaultant joy.  Having unbelievably low skill at the poker and blackjack table, she had tried her luck at roulette.  After playing only a few games, a hulking great man came and offered her a huge stack of money as a gift for her business. 

Feeling rich, and more than a little drunk, she ran out into the streets screaming "What an amazing contest!!!!" 

I don't know the answers...

*cries*

Always nice to see a city put a lot of effort into making a holiday such as Saint Patricks Day into a great event within their city. All of the competitions and such are all very interesting and will for sure bring in business and mobsters from all over to try their hand at them. I hope that all things go well and this is a great celebration. It is one of the greatest holidays of the year. Well for those who indulge in the consumption of alcohol.

Hutch chuckles and then turns and gets into his car and drives off.

My appologies on the picture competition, I seem to have got a bit ahead of myself on time.

I had April 20th as the closing time. I meant March obviously.

I will close the competition tomorrow March 20th now at 21:00 game time.

Thanks and appologies for any confusion.

Answers to the trivia are below. I have increased the amount of prizes for the trivia and made a 2nd and 3rd place. Congratulations to Cest_La_Vie, Egwene and JordynCarelli.

When ThomasRourke first became Godfather of New York, he allowed people to set up crews within his city with a few rules (not auth in the traditional sense). Who was the first crewleader to take ThomasRourke up on this offer? Juice_V

What two crewleaders did Marietta make the 'rulers' of New York? TheSpacePope and Taskmaster

What crewleader controlled New York but moved his HQ to Chicago and turned the control of the city to the then Godfather of Chicago? Frankiefigs

At what time and on what date were the families of Gravol and AlfonsiTimello banned from entering New York? Jun 04 12:01 a.m

What two crewleaders served under Deimne and both ran newspapers before taking Godfather of their own cities? What were their papers called? Gwarble The Gwarble Barble and Lucretia_Borgia The New York Post

What LHM shares the same name and bloodline as the first captain authed by the now retired New York Godfather TheDean? Falcon

On the same day ThomasRourke retired and Deimne took over as Godfather of New York, a Godfather of another city shot at Deimne. What was the name of that Godfather? Butt_Ox

On what date did Godfather Whatsername obtain the rank of Don? Sep 26, 2010

The same day TheDean took Godfather of New York one of his crewleaders died to a gun malfunction, what was the name of that crewleader? violet

What two crewleaders that were set up under TheDean share the same bloodlines and almost identical names to two current crewleaders? BostonGeorgeJung and Premeir-

Excellent!  Thanks Ma'am

Thanks Ma'am

Thank you Ma'am.

Congratulations to you Egwene and Cest_La_Vie as well :D

The winners of the profile picture competition which I sponsored are: 

Maeve and TomCollins, who were the only entrants to guess the full 12 profile snippets.

Thank you all for taking part.

The answers were:

1: SexyBeast
2: Rinkel
3: The_Last_Assassin
4: littlegirly
5: Phreaking_Panda
6: AlabamaWorley
7: Colossus
8: Tanda
9: Crazy_Melis / JordynCarelli - I would have accepted either answer here
10: -Premeir
11: Whatsername
12: Genesis

Your accountant makes note that $1,000,000 has been wired to Maeve from your account.

Your accountant makes note that $1,000,000 has been wired to TomCollins from your account.

Congrats!!

Thank you, sir! I enjoyed the challenge and hope to see more like it in the future. :D

Yes indeed thank you for this tricky competition. My thanks to NY for putting this on and my congratulationss to you Maeve.

And congratulations to you, TomCollins! :D