This weeks quiz has 20 questions Crime and Punishment.

1. What were stocks used for?
2. What was a gallows?
3. What did it mean if criminals were 'transported'?
4. What was the rack?
5. What punishment was inflicted upon Guy Fawkes?
6. Is it true that criminals had to pay for their keep in prison?
7. What was the iron maiden?
8. What does the expression 'to let the cat out of the bag' refer to?
9. What fate befell Anne Boleyn?
10. What was strange about the execution of 'Babacombe' Lee?
11. What happened to people that refused to plead in a criminal case?
12. What was a ducking stool used for?
13. What title was given to Matthew Hopkins?
14. What were the tricoteuses?
15. What happened to the prankster Til Eugenspiel?
16. What official body was appointed by the Roman Catholic Church to root out heresy?
17. What was Alcatraz?
18. Which were the chief opponents of the Kray Twins?
19. What was Al Capone finally convicted of?
20. What were the full names of Bonnie and Clyde?

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