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Quiz
- What's the last name of attorney, Robert, who came to national attention when defending friend O.J. Simpson during that infamous 1994 murder trial?
- Which novel centres on the trial of Tom Robinson?
- The Salem witch trials were in the latter part of which century?
- Whose Old Bailey trial in 1910 was one of the first cases to use forensic evidence in court?
- In which German city were prominent leaders of Nazi Germany prosecuted after World War II?
- Which central figure in the 1963 Profumo affair committed suicide during the trial?
- Who was sent for trial on on charges of 'gross indecency' in 1895?
- Kenneth Starr's investigation famously led to whose trial?
- What popular name is given to the dispute between Cooleen Rooney and Rebekah Vardy, which culminated in a 2022 libel case?
- Which governor of the Roman province of Judaea was the official who presided over the trial of Jesus?
- What is the name of the 1955 play by Reginald Rose that depicts a jury deliberating the fate of a young man accused of murder?
- American Amanda Knox was wrongful convicted in 2009 in which country?
- Who in 2001 was wrongfully convicted of the murder of TV presenter Jill Dando?
- Who in 1949 insisted that his trial was illegal?
- In 1979, who was tried at the Old Bailey on charges of conspiracy and incitement to murder his ex-boyfriend?
- Harold Shipman's trial began at which city's Crown Court on 5 October 1999?
- Which queen was tried for adultery, incest, and high treason in 1536?
- Can you name the last woman to be executed in the United Kingdom in 1955?
- By what name are the group wrongly convited of bombings on 22 October 1975 at the Old Bailey best known?
- Which English trial proceedings ended with the judge describing the offence as a "a crime of sordid violence inspired by vast greed"?
- Who was found guilty of conspiracy, murder, and treason in Charles Town, Virginia in 1859?
- Who was acquitted at a trial that received widespread publicity throughout the United States in 1893?
- Can you name the former trader who was jailed for over 6 years in 1995 in Singapore?
- Graffiti artist Banksy produced a T-shirt to be sold in support of which group before their 2021 trial?
- Which 1973 U.S. Supreme Court ruling recognized that the decision to continue or end a pregnancy belonged to the individual, not the government?
Answers
- Kardashian (the Kardashian's father)
- To Kill a Mockingbird (by Harper Lee)
- The late 17th century (in colonial Massachusetts between 1692 and 1693)
- The Trial of Dr. Hawley Crippen (1910)
- Nuremberg
- Stephen Ward
- Oscar Wilde
- President Bill CLinton's
- Wagatha Christie
- Pontius Pilate
- Twelve Angry Men
- Italy
- Barry George
- Charles I
- Jeremy Thorpe
- Preston's
- Anne Boleyn
- Ruth Ellis
- The Guildford Four
- Great Train Robbery trial (1964)
- John Brown
- Lizzie Borden
- Nick Leeson
- Colston 4
- Roe v. Wade