Take This Crime Quiz and See What You Know About Crooked Cults, Con Men and Killers!

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Question 1

While he gained fame and popularity as both a professional athlete and an actor, most of his notoriety actually came from his murder trial.

  • A
    Alex Pettyfer
  • B
    John Amos
  • C
    O.J. Simpson
  • D
    Bill Cosby

Question 2

What infamous London killer stalked the night and was never caught?

  • A
    William the Conqueror
  • B
    Vlad the Impaler
  • C
    Ivan the Terrible
  • D
    Jack the Ripper

Question 3

This nightmare narcissist represented himself at a trial that became the first televised murder trial. Name that necrophiliac.

  • A
    Ted Bundy
  • B
    Patrick Bateman
  • C
    Luis Garavito
  • D
    Marc Dutroux

Question 4

The wild hair and Hawaiian shirt from this celebrity mugshot instantly made it one of the most recognizable and memorable.

  • A
    Weird Al
  • B
    Nick Nolte
  • C
    Gary Busey
  • D
    Ted Danson

Question 5

Better known as the "Son of Sam," what serial killer terrorized NYC in the '70s?

  • A
    David Berkowitz
  • B
    Carl Panzram
  • C
    Roy Norris
  • D
    Michael Myers

Question 6

Known for targeting and cannibalizing men, what serial killer committed his first murder at 18?

  • A
    Ted Bundy
  • B
    Dexter
  • C
    Boston Strangler
  • D
    Jeffrey Dahmer

Question 7

This famous musician ended up behind bars after a sexual misconduct charge. It may be hard to recognize him when he's out of character and not on stage.

  • A
    Philip Seymour Hoffman
  • B
    Edward Norton
  • C
    Taffy
  • D
    Marilyn Manson

Question 8

This important figure in the world of boxing has one of the most iconic images, and one of the most iconic mugshots, but do you remember his name?

  • A
    Michael Jace
  • B
    Muhammad Ali
  • C
    Don King
  • D
    Mike Tyson

Question 9

The Branch Davidians cult was founded by this man, their self-proclaimed "messiah." Name that Waco cult leader.

  • A
    Larry David
  • B
    David Koresh
  • C
    Charles Manson
  • D
    Marshall Applewhite

Question 10

Never caught, what serial killer sent cryptic messages to the Bay Area Press to be decoded?

  • A
    The Cleveland Torso Murderer
  • B
    The Zodiac Killer
  • C
    Sweeney Todd
  • D
    Golden State Killer

Question 11

This actor has been arrested multiple times throughout his acting career.

  • A
    Andy García
  • B
    Luke Wilson
  • C
    Mickey Rourke
  • D
    Lucas Till

Question 12

Known as the "Killer Clown," what murderer gave us nightmares long before Stephen King's It?

  • A
    Herman Webster Mudgett
  • B
    David Berkowitz
  • C
    John Wayne Gacy
  • D
    Pennywise

Question 13

Imposter Christian Gerhartsreiter was infamous for pretending to be from which famous New York family?

  • A
    The Rothschilds
  • B
    The Rumsfelds
  • C
    The Wests
  • D
    The Rockefellers

Question 14

This former Nasdaq chairman made off with $50 billion via his Ponzi scheme. Name that Wall Street fat cat.

  • A
    John G. Ervin
  • B
    Jonathan Rabbit
  • C
    Bernie Madoff
  • D
    Peter Lombardi

Question 15

This serial killer terrorized California in the '80s, burglarizing and killing at will. Name that "Night Stalker".

  • A
    Edward Adams
  • B
    Richard Ramirez
  • C
    Rip Van Winkle
  • D
    Son of Sam

Question 16

Mastermind cultist Shoko Asahara led a terrorist attack on what?

  • A
    Oklahoma City
  • B
    World Trade Centers
  • C
    Eiffel Tower
  • D
    Tokyo subway system

Question 17

Cult leader, Sun Myung Moon, achieved a Guinness World Record when he married 6,516 strangers at once in 1988. Name that cult.

  • A
    The Starries
  • B
    The Moonies
  • C
    The Sunnies
  • D
    The Worker Bees

Question 18

This American singer and actor is almost as famous for his domestic violence arrests as he is for his music or acting.

  • A
    Chris Brown
  • B
    Mike Tyson
  • C
    Hugh Jackman
  • D
    Jim Parsons

Question 19

What hippie "Christian" cult, led by David Berg, exploited children?

  • A
    Children of God
  • B
    Holy Water Church
  • C
    Church of the Holy Sacrifice
  • D
    The Jesuits

Question 20

Calling it a "revolutionary act," where did Jim Jones order hundreds of followers to drink the Kool-Aid...literally?

  • A
    Joe's Burger Shack
  • B
    Johnston
  • C
    Jamestown
  • D
    Jonestown

Question 21

This rare female serial killer was portrayed by Charlize Theron in Monster. Name that monster.

  • A
    Michelle Knotek
  • B
    Hannah McKay
  • C
    Delphine LaLaurie
  • D
    Aileen Wuornos

Question 22

This original schemer brought down six banks with his million-dollar pyramid. Name that Italian con man.

  • A
    Giorgio Armani
  • B
    Charles Ponzi
  • C
    Silvio Berlusconi
  • D
    Angelo Bruno

Question 23

Japanese Emperor Hirohito was worshipped as the manifestation of the divine. He led his followers to complete what act, known as "divine wind"?

  • A
    Kamikaze
  • B
    Konnichiwa
  • C
    Moshi moshi
  • D
    Onegai shimasu

Question 24

Going back to the early days of film, this silent actor and comedian was charged with murder and rape.

  • A
    Charlie Chaplin
  • B
    Harold Lloyd
  • C
    Fatty Arbuckle
  • D
    Buster Keaton

Question 25

This '70s punk rocker was arrested and charged with the murder of his girlfriend in 1979. He was dead just seven weeks later.

  • A
    Johnny Rotten
  • B
    Joey Ramone
  • C
    Sid Vicious
  • D
    Iggy Pop

Question 26

This sadistic serial killer built a "murder castle" at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair in which to torture his victims. Name that terror.

  • A
    Buffalo Bill
  • B
    A. A. Williams
  • C
    H. H. Holmes
  • D
    W. C. Fields

Question 27

What imposter posed as a pilot for PanAm, a doctor, and a lawyer before he was even 21?

  • A
    Leonardo DiCaprio
  • B
    Tom Petters
  • C
    Val Southwick
  • D
    Frank William Abagnale Jr.

Question 28

What Bavarian cult originated out of opposition to the monarchy and religion?

  • A
    Celts
  • B
    The Illuminati
  • C
    Guy Fawkes
  • D
    French revolutionaries

Question 29

Wearing a green handyman outfit, this man strangled his victims with rope. Name that "Boston Strangler".

  • A
    Dayle Wayne Eaton
  • B
    Jigsaw Killer
  • C
    Albert DeSalvo
  • D
    Mike DeBardeleben

Question 30

Shorthand for "bind, torture, kill," the BTK killer is otherwise known as which man?

  • A
    Dennis Rader
  • B
    Todd Kohlhepp
  • C
    Tate Langdon
  • D
    Joseph Kallinger

Question 31

Called "the world's worst serial killer," what "Beast" is believed to have murdered over 300 victims?

  • A
    Mickey Knox
  • B
    Mose Gibson
  • C
    Gary Evans
  • D
    Luis Garavito

Question 32

This serial killer was the inspiration behind Hitchcock's Psycho. Name that madman with mommy issues.

  • A
    Ed Gein
  • B
    William Burke
  • C
    Bruno Ludke
  • D
    Hannibal Lecter

Question 33

Which Irish con man was so handsome that he was let off the hook for his fake cure for consumption?

  • A
    Fernando Wood
  • B
    C. L. Blood
  • C
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • D
    John St. John Long

Question 34

Known in the Caribbean as "Sir Allen," who is this Ponzi giant who bilked investors out of $7 billion?

  • A
    Allen Stanford
  • B
    Woody Allen
  • C
    Tim Allen
  • D
    Allen Iverson

Question 35

This "Wolf of Wall Street" ran a boiler room to manipulate investors into a penny-stock scam. Name that con man.

  • A
    William Abrams
  • B
    Johann Baptist Placht
  • C
    Simon Garfunkel
  • D
    Jordan Belfort

Question 36

Known as "The Butcher," what Russian killer murdered dozens over more than a decade?

  • A
    Igor Chernat
  • B
    Vasily Filippenko
  • C
    Ghostface
  • D
    Andrei Chikatilo

Question 37

Founded by A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada in New York, what cult was accused of child abuse?

  • A
    Blue Man Group
  • B
    Hare Krishna
  • C
    Peoples' Temple
  • D
    Unification Church

Question 38

What did Santeria cult leader, Adolfo Constanzo, blend with Roman Catholicism to "disappear" people?

  • A
    Vanishing charm
  • B
    Happy thoughts
  • C
    Black magic
  • D
    Voodoo

Question 39

This music mogul who gave the world Backstreet Boys and 'NSYNC also swindled investors into funding a fake airline. Name that defrauder.

  • A
    Clive Davis
  • B
    Lou Pearlman
  • C
    Brian Epstein
  • D
    Frank Sinatra

Question 40

This murderer's sins caught up with him in 2018 when advancements in genealogy and DNA identified him as the "Golden State Killer". Name that evasive murderer.

  • A
    Joseph James DeAngelo
  • B
    Red John
  • C
    Jerry Walter McFadden
  • D
    Henry Lee Moore

Question 41

What cult, led by Keith Raniere, made headlines when a Smallville actress was charged for recruiting members?

  • A
    DKNY
  • B
    XOXO
  • C
    NXIVM
  • D
    XYZ

Question 42

Creating the practice of "dynamic meditation," what Indian cult leader incited a mass salmonella poisoning in Oregon?

  • A
    William Clay Ford, Jr.
  • B
    Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
  • C
    Mahatma Gandhi
  • D
    Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Question 43

The papers read, "Brooklyn Bridge's Seller sent to Sing Sing for Life." Which con man sold the Brooklyn Bridge...twice?

  • A
    James Cagney
  • B
    Ioan Stoica
  • C
    George C. Parker
  • D
    Ron Rewald

Question 44

Nursing his victims to their graves, this killer targeted elderly patients. Name that "Angel of Death".

  • A
    Sean Vincent Gillis
  • B
    Charles Edmund Cullen
  • C
    William Clyde Gibson
  • D
    Arthur Mitchell

Question 45

The way this California highwayman left his victims earned him the name "The Trashbag Killer". Name that criminal.

  • A
    Patrick Wayne Kearney
  • B
    William Henry Hance
  • C
    Matthew Steven Johnson
  • D
    Joe Goldberg

Question 46

Don't be fooled by this dude's dashing looks. What "Casanova Killer" claimed to have killed 35 people?

  • A
    Filipe Espinosa
  • B
    Paul John Knowles
  • C
    John Doe
  • D
    Donald Leroy Evans

Question 47

Which scammer sold Mona Lisa forgeries after art thieving the real painting?

  • A
    Jean Pierre Van Rossem
  • B
    Dona Branca
  • C
    Eduardo de Valfierno
  • D
    Roman Polanski

Question 48

Known as "The Great Imposter," which conman moonlit as a zoologist, civil engineer, and a Trappist monk?

  • A
    A.J. Obie
  • B
    Ferdinand Demara
  • C
    Winston Churchill
  • D
    William "520 Percent" Miller

Question 49

An apocalyptic cult called "Order of the Solar Temple" was led by what dooms-dayers?

  • A
    Marshall Applewhite and Luc Jouret
  • B
    Indiana Jones and Sallah
  • C
    Joseph Di Mambro and Luc Jouret
  • D
    David Koresh and Shoko Asahara

Question 50

What notorious Russian murderer earned the name, "Chessboard Killer," because he aimed to kill 64 people - one for each square on a chessboard?

  • A
    Alexander Pichushkin
  • B
    Alexander Pushkin
  • C
    Vlad the Impaler
  • D
    Andrey Romanovich Chikatilo

Question 51

Sulphuric acid played a part in which "Acid Bath Murderer's" M.O.?

  • A
    David Edward Maust
  • B
    Lee Roy Martin
  • C
    Jason Voorhees
  • D
    John George Haigh

Question 52

How was the term "con man" coined? Ask this NYC street swindler, who was first known as "The Confidence Man".

  • A
    David Blaine
  • B
    William Thompson
  • C
    Soapy Smith
  • D
    George Parker

Question 53

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom is loosely based on what cult, run by assassins known as the Thuggee?

  • A
    Cult of Kaleesi
  • B
    Cult of Doom
  • C
    Kult of Cali
  • D
    Cult of Fashion

Question 54

Which self-proclaimed "Rattlesnake King" is the original snake oil salesman?

  • A
    Clark Stanley
  • B
    Joe Snake
  • C
    Joseph Smith
  • D
    Jacob Young

Question 55

What early Muslim Order killed sultans, kings, advisors, and the like?

  • A
    The Hashashin
  • B
    The Jihadi
  • C
    The Moors
  • D
    The Taliban

Question 56

Which female con claimed to be the long lost Anastasia Romanov?

  • A
    Anna Anderson
  • B
    Sarah Howe
  • C
    Anna Kournikova
  • D
    Adele Spitzeder

Question 57

Which British swindler posed as a nobleman to extort large sums of money?

  • A
    Lord James Hogue
  • B
    Lord Byron
  • C
    Lord Don Lapre
  • D
    Lord Gordon Gordon

Question 58

Which "king of con men" invented a fake country for his victims to invest in?

  • A
    Adriaan Nieuwoudt
  • B
    Sean Connery
  • C
    J. David Dominelli
  • D
    Greg McGregor

Question 59

"C'est la vie..." Which con man sold the Eiffel Tower...twice?

  • A
    Victor Lustig
  • B
    Emmanuel Macron
  • C
    Jean Pierre Van Rossem
  • D
    Ivar Kreuger

Question 60

"Take the Parliament House of India, and I'll throw in its sitting members." This Indian con man not only tried to sell the House, but also the Taj Mahal.

  • A
    Natwarlal
  • B
    Mahatma Gandhi
  • C
    A.R. Rahman
  • D
    Salman Khan

Question 61

Which NY swindler set fixed matches of the parlor game bunco, targeting high profile peeps, like Oscar Wilde?

  • A
    Robert Hendy-Freegard
  • B
    Joseph Weil
  • C
    Hungry Joe
  • D
    Wild Bill Hickok

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