Famous Jailed People A-Z with Clues - Statistics

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
A – tutored Alexander the Great and was later sentenced to death but voluntarily retired to the city of Chalcis	Aristotle	89%
G – arrested in 1977 for traffic violations; in 1995 became the wealthiest person in the world	Bill Gates	89%
E – was imprisoned on suspicion of supporting Protestant rebels before becoming Queen in 1558	Elizabeth I	89%
M – Robben Island, anti-apartheid, Nobel Peace Prize	Nelson Mandela	87%
H – when the Bavarian Supreme Court pardoned him in 1924, they couldn’t know he’d end up causing millions of deaths	Adolf Hitler	81%
T – has plenty under his belt: heavyweight championships, convictions in rape, assault, possession of narcotics and DUI, and a spot of ear biting	Mike Tyson	81%
F – gunpowder, House of Lords, bonfires, 5 November	Guy Fawkes	80%
I – King of Libya 1951–1969, later sentenced to death; the same name is used by The Wire actor Elba	Idris	78%
P – joined a war against Genoa, was imprisoned and dictated stories of his travels to a cellmate, becoming the first European to chronicle his experiences in China	Marco Polo	78%
Y – sentenced in 1934 of anti-Soviet agitation; his then toddler son would later dissolve USSR and rule Russia	Nikolai Yeltsin	78%
X – human rights activist who joined the Nation of Islam in prison and adopted his new name to symbolize his unknown African ancestral surname	Malcolm X	76%
W – while it was still a thing, this Irish poet was prosecuted for gross indecency with other males	Oscar Wilde	74%
D – experiencing isolation first hand in prison probably helped him when writing Robinson Crusoe	Daniel Defoe	70%
S – Emperor of Ethiopia 1930–1974 who was eventually deposed, imprisoned and murdered, although the latter didn’t come to light until 20 years later	Haile Selassie	69%
V – Sex Pistols bassist who was arrested for stabbing his girlfriend Nancy to death with a knife she had bought him a few days previously	Sid Vicious	67%
C – President of France 1995–2007; in 2011 found guilty of corruption	Jacques Chirac	63%
N – de facto ruler of Panama 1983–1989, who after dabbling in racketeering, drug smuggling and money laundering was sentenced to 40 years in prison	Manuel Noriega	63%
B – Pakistani stateswoman who was repeatedly imprisoned and died by assassination in 2007	Benazir Bhutto	61%
U – Pope who went to Naples in 1383 and was allegedly imprisoned	Urban VI	61%
Z – Mexican revolutionary who, in his youth, was arrested when taking part in a protest by peasants	Emiliano Zapata	59%
K – R&B singer who was, in 2022, sentenced to 30 years behind bars; known for ”I Believe I Can Fly”	R. Kelly	59%
Q – fellow Norwegians didn’t particularly appreciate his efforts to act in the “best interests” of Norway during WWII	Vidkun Quisling	52%
R – scored two goals for Brazil in FIFA World Cup 2002 and five goals in a prison futsal tournament	Ronaldinho	43%
O – child actor (The Sixth Sense, A.I.) who later drove under influence, breaking a couple of bones	Haley Joel Osment	41%
J – athlete who won three gold medals and two bronze medals at the 2000 Summer Olympics but was later stripped of her medals after admitting to lying to federal investigators	Marion Jones	41%
L – former NFL quarterback who, in 2012, pleaded guilty to felony burglary and drug possession in Montana and, in 2020, to a misdemeanor domestic violence charge; namesake of Nissan’s electric car model	Ryan Leaf	26%

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