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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. Roughly translated to English, la cosa nostra means:
a) keep your nose clean
b) our thing
c) I took care of that problem. It's in the trunk.
d) Organized crime
2. Where did mafia originate?
a) Rome
b) Palermo
c) Chicago
d) New York
3. The first known Mafioso in USA was
a) Charles Luciano
b) Salvatore Maranzano
c) Giuseppe Esposito
d) Joe Masseria
4. Founder of the modern American Mafia was
a) Charles Luciano
b) Salvatore Maranzano
c) Giuseppe Esposito
d) Joe Masseria
5. Which real life Mafia figure was nick named “the scarface”?
a) Gaetano Lucchese
b) Al Capone
c) Tony Montana
d) Vito Corleone
6. The Commission of mafia families slowed rampant recruiting of mobsters in the 1920s and '30s by:
a) requiring a list of all new recruits be circulated among the families
b) requiring all new recruits have at least a high school diploma
c) adding a controversial recruit tax, which was a large sum of money paid by families when a new member was added
d) killing the members of other families
7. Which of the following Hollywood crime movies is fictional?
a) Goodfellas
b) Donnie Brasco
c) The Godfather
d) The Untouchables
8. FBI agent Joe Pistone infiltrated the mafia with the undercover name:
a) Robert Loggia
b) Donnie Brasco
c) Tom Hagen
d) Billy Costigan
9. Which event brought the mafia's existence undeniably to light?
a) Apalachin Raid
b) Senate Hearings on Organized Crime
c) Ace Rothstein's Vegas TV show
d) The release of the movie “The Godfather”
10. Which mobster was arrested for income tax evasion?
a) Al Capone
b) Frank Costello
c) Joseph Juliano
d) All of these
11. Little Nicky Scarfo was the bloodthirsty head of what city's mob in the early 1980s?
a. Las Vegas
b. New York
c. Philadelphia
d. Chicago
12. What New York City restaurant was Big Paul Castellano outside of when he got rubbed out?
a. Tavern on the Green
b. Beefsteak Charlies
c. Sardis
d. Sparks Steak House
13. These young Irish hoods terrorized New York's West Side in the 1970s:
a. The Westies
b. The Sharks
c. The Molly McGuires
d. U2
14. The Sopranos are set in Northern New Jersey. Name the crime family commonly associated with this area by law enforcement officials:
a. Bonanno
b. Luchesse
c. Gambino
d. DeCavalcante
15. As of May 2001, the most high profile mob trial is that of alleged Philadelphia mobster Joey Merlino. What's Joey's commonly referred to nickname?
a. Skinny
b. Big
c. Little
d. The Crow
16. This New York mob boss showed up to his 1996-1997 racketeering trial wearing pajamas:
a. Sammy Gravano
b. John Gotti Junior
c. Vincent Gigante
d. Joe Bonnanno
17. Which mobster was not based out of New York?
a. Sam Giancana
b. Albert Anastasia
c. Charles Luciano
d. Joe Persico
18. This New Orleans mob boss has often been fingered as part of the JFK assassination by conspiracy buffs:
a. Santo Traficante
b. Bugsy Siegel
c. Jimmy Roselli
d. Carlos Marcello
19. He was head of Cleveland's notorious Mayfield Road Gang from the 1930s to the 1960s, and believed by some to be the Mob's point man in Las Vegas:
a. Moe Dalitz
b. Myer Lansky
c. Frank Sinatra
d. Dutch Schultz
20. Whom did the Italian American Civil Rights League name as their man of the year in 1971?
a. Joe Bonanno
b. John Gotti
c. Joe Colombo
d. Albert Anastasia
21. Whose son was arrested and sentenced to three years for using a stolen credit card?
a. Bonanno
b. Colombo
c. Gotti
d. Anastasia
22. Which mob boss had a son arrested for melting down coins for their silver content?
a. Gotti
b. Bonanno
c. Anastasia
d. Colombo
23. Which boss compared something his son did as "keeping a grocery list for posterity just to prove you went shopping once"?
a. John Gotti
b. Joe Bonanno
c. Albert Anastasia
d. Joe Colombo
24. Which boss died during a haircut?
a. Bonanno
b. Gotti
c. Anastasia
d. Colombo
25. Which mob boss was convicted largely due to the testimony of his underboss?
a. Gotti
b. Colombo
c. Anastasia
d. Bonanno |
