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The Mafia Quiz

Can you guess these facts related to organised crime syndicates?
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First submittedMarch 13, 2020
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Island on which the Mafia originated
Sicily
English translation of "Cosa Nostra", the mafia's name for itself
Our thing
Term for a fully-initiated member of the Mafia
Made man
Common name for the Japanese mafia
Yakuza
Common name for a Chinese crime syndicate
Triad
Mobster who ran the Chicago outfit in the 1920s
Al Capone
Illegal product sold by the above
Alcohol
Crime for which he was eventually convicted
Tax evasion
Term for a major criminal organization which traffics drugs
Cartel
Medellín-based drug lord who had a net worth estimated at $30 billion
Pablo Escobar
Crime family from the movie "The Godfather"
Corleone
Drug gang founded by a former Mexican special forces soldier which gets
its name from a letter in the Spanish alphabet
Zetas
In the early 2000s, Afghanistan was the world's leading supplier
of this illegal product
Opium
Three letter title of respect for a high-ranking leader in the Italian mafia
Don
Sporting event that was allegedly fixed in 1919 by racketeer Arnold Rothstein
World Series
Los Angeles street gang that wears red and are rivals of the Crips
Bloods
Former Birmingham gang that supposedly wore razor blades in the bills of their hats
Peaky Blinders
The Italian mafia in New York was once known for its "five families".
Name any one of them.
Bonanno | Colombo |
Gambino | Genovese |
Lucchese
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14 Comments
brandybuck96
+8
Level 83
Feb 17, 2022
Turns out all this time I've been reading it as 'casa nostra', 'our house'. Not that I read a lot about the Mafia in general
Arp2600
+18
Level 87
Feb 17, 2022
Too many questions not about the mafia.
cledun2
+6
Level 92
Feb 17, 2022
Mafia is a term for general organized crime groups.
Arp2600
+12
Level 87
Feb 18, 2022
A mafia is a particular type of criminal organization, with a code, with rituals, with a strong law of silence. I think it must be distinguished from a gang. The Yakuza and the Triad qualify for this quiz, LA and Birmingham gangs don't. As for the world series question, I don't get it... it's not interesting at the very least.

On the other hand, some basic stuff is not asked for, such as the Omertà, Lucky Luciano, John Gotti... I would also make a case of more Italian stuff: The Calabrian mafia ('Ndrangheta) has taken much importance since the decline of the sicilian one, and the Camorra, the Napolitan one, is rather well-known as well.

partdavid
+3
Level 74
Jul 20, 2023
I'm not sure why you think the L.A. gangs don't qualify, as they are organized, have a hierarchical structure (with ranks and paid (!) membership, codes (rules), rituals and vows of silence.

You could say that the mafia is an Italian-derived term that can only apply to Italian and Italian-American criminal organizations (thus not including the Bloods, the Yakuza or Medellín cartel), though this at odds with the actual usage of the word, as reflected by a dictionary; or you can say that it is a general term for a kind of criminal organization, in which case everything can stay.

RuthlessCosmo
+2
Level 74
Dec 6, 2024
You may not think that the fixing of the 1919 World Series (fact) by Rothstein (disputed) is interesting, but it remains a big story after more than 100 years. The Black Sox Scandal and the emergence of Babe Ruth as a home run hitter represent a watershed in the history of baseball. F. Scott Fitzgerald used it to illustrate the loss of American innocence in "The Great Gatsby," Hyman Roth (the fictionalized version of Meyer Lansky) referred to it in "The Godfather Part II," and it comes up whenever someone like Pete Rose is caught gambling on games.

Of course you may not think baseball is interesting either. That I can't help you with.

richiesyxx
+1
Level 73
Dec 8, 2024
The term is not necessarily an Italian one. There are theories that suggest that the term has an Arabic origin since, from the 9th to the 11th century, Sicily was an Islamic emirate, and there are a number of candidates within Arabic that may be the real root of the term.

Whatever the root, the term as it is used today was coined by the press to broadly describe organised crime groups and their members (mafiosi). The Sicilian Mafia never referred to themselves as ‘The Mafia,’ only as Cosa Nostra.

Almchendolf
+6
Level 54
Mar 4, 2022
this guy mobs
rleitne
+4
Level 85
Feb 22, 2022
For triad, you should also accept "tong."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tong_(organization)

joez
+1
Level 75
Feb 27, 2022
Ditto.
bestanford
+2
Level 72
Feb 27, 2022
please accept "tong"
joez
+1
Level 75
Feb 27, 2022
Agreed.
Quizmaster
+1
Level ∞
Feb 27, 2022
Okay
SpartanLlama
+2
Level 72
Feb 27, 2022
I mess with the mob too much, was literally just rewatching some Sopranos and Donnie Brasco right before this and I'm making a mob screenplay for fun. Only missed Zetas
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