| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| Genocidal Bosnian Serb warlord who was tried at the International Criminal Court in the Hague. | Radovan Karadic | 70%
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| Renaissance artist who was sentenced to death for murder but successfully fled from the authorities. | Caravaggio | 69%
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| Israeli who was convicted of treason for spying for the USSR. | Israel Beer | 65%
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| Massachusetts woman who in 2022 attacked the police by releasing a swarm of bees onto them. | Rorie Wood | 64%
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| Swindler who ran history's largest Ponzi scheme, causing $50bn in losses; he received a 150-year jail sentence. | Bernie Madoff | 63%
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| The "Teflon Don" of the New York mafia who feigned mental illness as a ruse to avoid prosecution. | John Gotti | 63%
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| American bootlegger, bank robber and kidnapper of the 1920s and 30s. | Machine Gun Kelly | 63%
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| A pop music producer, he was later jailed for murder and died from COVID-19 complications. | Phil Spector | 59%
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| Soviet POW in Germany. It is alleged he became a concentration camp guard and sent thousands to their death; he was convicted in 2009. | John Demjanjuk | 55%
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| Indian bandit, poacher and murderer who also kidnapped a film star and held her for over three months. | Veerappan | 55%
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| Led a deadly 1975 raid on the OPEC headquarters, demanded a plane and fled, with hostages in tow, to Libya. | Carlos the Jackal | 45%
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| Glasgow gangster who was shot in broad daylight in an Asda car park. | Kevin "The Gerbil" Carroll | 45%
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| Rogue stock market trader who cost Barings Bank £827 million, causing its collapse. | Nick Leeson | 40%
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| Puerto Rican terrorist who blew his hands off while making a bomb, escaped from the US police by jumping from a 3rd floor window, and made it to Cuba. | William Morales | 38%
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| Was executed for organising the assassination of the leader of Burma in 1947. | U Saw | 33%
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