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Famous trials in history - Statistics
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- This quiz has been taken 1,535 times
- The average score is 8 of 15
Answer Stats
| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| 1994. California. The crime: killing his wife and her friend. Lesser crime: escaping in a white Ford Bronco on the freeway. The sentence: acquittal. | OJ Simpson | 95%
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| 1998. DC. The crime: oral sex with an intern in an oddly shaped office—or rather, lying about it. The sentence: acquittal. | Bill Clinton | 93%
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| 33 AD. Judea. The crime: plotting against the empire. The sentence: death... or maybe not? | Jesus Christ | 81%
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| 1431. Rouen. The crime: cross-dressing and recanting... and maybe fighting the English and the Burgundians, too. The sentence: death by burning. | Joan of Arc | 75%
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| 399 BC. Athens. The crime: disrespecting the gods and teaching young people to think for themselves. The sentence: death by poisoning. | Socrates | 75%
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| 1963-64, Rivonia (Johannesburg). The crime: revolution and sabotage... and maybe fighting for racial equality, too The sentence: life in prison (released after 27 years in Robben Island). | Nelson Mandela | 68%
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| 1895. London. The crime: gross indecency with other males. The sentence: 2 years of hard labour. | Oscar Wilde | 55%
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| 1633, Rome. The crime: heresy. The sentence: forced to abjure heliocentrism, house arrest for life. | Galileo Galilei | 54%
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| 1521, Worms. The crime: writings disparaging Catholic doctrine. The sentence: declared an outlaw. | Martin Luther | 54%
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| 1951, New York. The crime: espionage... and maybe being Jewish, too. The sentence: death by electric chair. | Julius, Ethel Rosenberg | 44%
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| 2022. Fairfax County, Virginia. The crime: not piracy in the Caribbean, but defamation and domestic abuse. The sentence: financial penalty. Name both the defendant and the plaintiff (the two sides sued and counter-sued). | Johnny Depp, Amber Heard | 43%
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| 1925.Tennessee. The crime: teaching Darwinian biology to his students in Tennessee. The sentence: guilty. | John T. Scopes | 35%
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| 1961. Jerusalem. The crime: crimes against humanity. The sentence: death by hanging. | Adolf Eichmann | 34%
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| 1894, Paris. The crime: espionage... and maybe being Jewish, too. The sentence: deportation to French Guiana (later pardoned). | Alfred Dreyfus | 33%
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| 1637, Boston. The crime: disparaging Puritan ministers and unorthodox religious views. The sentence: exile. | Anne Hutchinson | 4%
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