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Round 3 Is Now Officially starting! Good Luck.
Answers will be judged on first come basis so make sure to MAIL Athyna-Grinz your entries in as soon as possible.
1,000,000 First Place
500k 2nd Place
250k 3rd Place
1. What is fuel racketeering?
a. The stealing of state and federal excise taxes.
b. The stealing of capital gain taxes.
c. The stealing of gasoline trucks.
d. Delivery expenditures
2. When was Pablo Escobar born?
a. 1946
b. 1949
c. 1952
d. 1953
3. In what year was the Organized Crime Control Act passed?
a. 1960
b. 1975
c. 1965
d. 1970
4. Which one of these is NOT an attribute of Italian organized crime?
a. Rules and Regulations
b. Ideological
c. Limited Membership
d. Perpetuates Itself
5. Was the uniform cargo crime reporting system created in the 20th century?
a. Yes
b. No
6. Charles 'Lucky' Luciano, one of the key founders of the mafia in America, was the boss of which of these families?
a. Gambino
b. Colombo
c. Lucchese
d. Genovese
7. Which gangster was boss, of what later came to be named the Gambino family, before Albert Anastasia
a. Vincent Mangano
b. Gaetano Gagliano
c. Joseph Magliocco
d. Frank Scalice
8. The family of Murray Humphreys, one of the Chicago outfits smartest and most important men till his death in 1965, were from which country?
a. Italy
b. Germany
c. Poland
d. Wales
9. 'The Arm' is the nickname of the mafia family from which area?
a. Milwaukee
b. Kansas City
c. Buffalo
d. Philadelphia
10. Joseph Bonanno was 97 years old when he died.
a. True
b. False
11. Which New York family was the last to have a member become an informant?
a. Gambino
b. Bonanno
c. Colombo
d. Luchese
12. Calogero Vizzini known as 'Don Calo', was one of the most important mafiosi in Sicily up until death in 1954. In which Sicilian town was he based?
a. Villalba
b. Castellammare Del Golfo
c. Corleone
d. Cinisi
13. Joseph Massino, the first official boss to become an informant, was the boss of which family till his arrest in 2004?
a. Gambino
b. Bonanno
c. Lucchese
d. Genovese
14. Anthony 'Gaspipe' Casso was the highly feared, violent underboss of the Luchese crime family from 1989 till his arrest in 1993 when he turned informant. How long was his prison sentence?
a. 15 years
b. 5 years
c. 13 life sentences
d. 10 years
15. Bernardo Provenzano, the undisputed head of the Sicilian mafia from the mid-90s till his arrest in 2006, had been on the run since what year?
a. 1985
b. 1978
c. 1990
d. 1963
16. Which mob boss was known as the "Mad Hatter"?
a. John Gotti
b. Joe Bonanno
c. Joe Colombo
d. Albert Anastasia
17. Which mob boss kept an apartment solely for storing his clothes collection?
a. John Gotti
b. Joe Colombo
c. Albert Anastasia
d. Joe Bonanno
18. Which mob boss is strongly believed to have staged his own kidnapping?
a. Albert Anastasia
b. Joe Bonanno
c. John Gotti
d. Joe Colombo
19. Which mob boss was the only one to die in prison?
a. Joe Colombo
b. Joe Bonanno
c. Albert Anastasia
d. John Gotti
20. Which boss took over the family after the previous boss died from natural causes?
a. Joe Bonanno
b. John Gotti
c. Joe Colombo
d. Albert Anastasia
21. Arthur Flegenheimer operated one of the biggest bootlegging, rum-running, and gambling operations in New York. By what name was he better known?
a. Dutch Schultz
b. Kid Twist
c. Artful Dodger
d. Little Kaiser
22. In order to gain complete control of Chicago's criminal empire, Al Capone needed to get three non-Italian crime bosses out of the way. Dion O'Bannion and George "Bugs" Moran, both Irish, were two of them. Can you name the third man, of Polish descent, who was in Capone's way?
a. Conrad "Connie" Loesky
b. David "Krakow" Grosz
c. Earl "Hymie" Weiss
d. Louis "Lepke" Buchalter
23. Although he was close friends with Bugsy Siegel, this financial wizard of the mob world gave his tacit agreement to Charles "Lucky" Luciano to have Siegel killed. Who was it?
a. Dutch Schultz
b. Louis Buchalter
c. Meyer Lansky
d. Arnold Rothstein
24. Jack Moran was a flashy gangster who ran several operations from Manhattan to Albany. In the process, though, he made enemies with several other gangsters, notably Dutch Schultz. After surviving several bullets fired at him on several occasions, he was finally gunned down in 1931. By what name was Jack Moran better known?
a. Frankie Yale
b. Dion O'Bannion
c. Legs Diamond
d. Kid Dropper
25. Jacob "Little Augie" Orgen grew up in a normal Orthodox Jewish home. When he got mixed up with the "wrong crowd", he formed his own gang called, "The Little Augies". By the mid-1920s, he ran a powerful organization, until his murder in 1927. What lucrative operation did "Little Augie" run?
a. labor slugging
b. gambling (numbers)
c. prostitution
d. Murder Incorporated |
