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WHAT TOUGH GUY ACTOR’s first role was as a prison boxer in the 1985 movie Runaway Train? He got the role because, while working as an extra on the set, he was recognized as a champion lightweight and welterweight prison boxer by a fellow former San Quentin inmate. (Though previously convicted of armed robbery, his San Quentin sentence was for selling sugar to federal agents and calling it cocaine.)

On February 18, 1982, WHAT ROCK MUSICIAN was arrested in San Antonio, Texas for drunkenly urinating on a cenotaph across the street from the Alamo while wearing his future wife Sharon’s dress? As a consequence, he was banned from the city of San Antonio for ten years.

Swiss national Alois Estermann and his Venezuelan wife Gladys Meza Romero became the most recent people to have been murdered in WHAT COUNTRY when they were killed by Estermann’s subordinate Cedric Tornay in 1998?

WHAT COLORFUL CRIMINAL SYNDICATE, founded by brothers Abe, Joe, Raymond, and Izzy Burnstein, dominated Detroit’s criminal underworld in the 1920s and early 1930s? Today they may be best remembered for having supposedly provided the whole rhythm section in Elvis Presley’s Jailhouse Rock.

WHAT NAME was used to refer to two exclusive 18th century organizations in Britain and Ireland? The first, founded by Philip, Duke of Wharton in 1718, dissolved in 1722 following strict new laws against “horrid impieties”. The second, founded by Sir Francis Dashwood in 1749, was famous for the invention of the sandwich by one of its members (the Earl of Sandwich), but was shut down in the 1760s when a raid discovered “scurrilous, blasphemous, and libelous” materials.

WHAT PUNK MUSICIAN (described by Allmusic as “the most spectacular degenerate in rock and roll history”) was arrested by his own estimate 52 times during his career, mostly for assaulting people during his performances? He was also notorious for his correspondence with serial killers, and a portrait of him by John Wayne Gacy adorns the cover of the soundtrack album for Hated, the documentary film about his tenure with the band The Murder Junkies.

FILL IN THE BLANKS: During the protests at 1968 Democratic National Convention, mayor Richard J. Daley famously responded to criticism of the Chicago police department’s response (often characterized as a “police riot”) by declaring “The policeman isn’t there to create disorder, the policeman is there to [BLANK] [BLANK].”

One explanation of the origin of the name of WHAT PARTICULAR FORM OF OFTEN-CRIMINAL FRAUD is that it comes from the practice of keeping captive cod lively by making them share habitat with another marine denizen. Well-known victims include basketball players Ray Allen and Chris Andersen and football player Manti T’eo.

Serial killers Patrick Kearney, William Bonin, and Randy Kraft all operated in Southern California during the period from the late 1960s to the early 1980s and all targeted similar victims. Though Kearney was also known as “The Trash Bag Killer” and Kraft was also known as “The Scorecard Killer”, all three were most often known by WHAT APPROPRIATELY SO-CAL EPITHET?

Elmyr de Hory, the subject of a documentary film by Orson Welles, was one of the world’s great Masters of WHAT FORM OF CRIMINALITY? His success was such that after his death he became a subject of this crime himself, as strange as that might seem.

The Executioner’s Song, a “non-fiction novel” account of the life and execution of Gary Gilmore, the first man sentenced to death in the United States after the reinstatement of the death penalty in 1976, won a Pulitzer Prize for WHAT AUTHOR?

WHAT COMPOSER was threatened with arrest in Boston in 1944 for using a dominant seventh chord in his arrangement of the "Star-Spangled Banner"? The police subsequently conceded that the law only prohibited arranging the anthem "as dance music, as an exit march, or as a part of a medley of any kind", though given the composer’s famous history with the Ballets Russes perhaps a fear that the arrangement would qualify as dance music would not have been entirely misplaced.