Take the Money and Run
Crack open the safe and plan your escape route with this trivia game featuring infamous heists and robberies.
15 questions · Published April 18, 2022
Trivia questions (5 of 15)
- Multiple Choice
1. What Depression-era gangster robbed dozens of banks and four police stations before being fatally shot outside a Chicago movie theater in 1934?
John Dillinger's antics led to the U.S. Bureau of Investigation evolving into the modern day FBI. Dillinger was seen as a Depression folk hero and was shot in the back by FBI agents while fleeing Chicago's Biograph Theater in 1934.
- Multiple Choice
2. What U.S. President's likeness is NOT featured on the masks worn by the surfers turned bank robbers in 1991's "Point Break?"
The four Presidents used to mask the surfing thieves in 1991's "Point Break" are Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, and Ronald Reagan, not John F. Kennedy.
- Multiple Choice
3. In 1971, D. B. Cooper famously hijacked a plane in Seattle and exchanged the hostages for $200,000 and ______________.
Hijacker D.B Cooper requested $200,000 and two parachutes. After freeing the hostages at the airport, he ordered the hijacked plane to fly low and slow to Mexico City. After 30 minutes in the air, he opened a rear hatch on the plane, parachuted out, and was never seen again.
- Multiple Choice
4. In 1992, Bill Brennan, an employee of the ____________ Casino in Las Vegas, stole $500,000 by simply walking out the front door, never to be seen or heard from again.
Bill Brennan, a sportsbook cashier at the Stardust Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, simply put the money in a bag and walked out the front door in September 1992.
Police searched Brennan's apartment, only to find some books on how to change one's identity. Brennan was never found and the case was dismissed in 2006.
- Multiple Choice
5. Over $282 million, the second largest sum in heist history, was stolen from a bank in ___________ in 2007.
The 2007 Dar Es Salaam Bank heist in Baghdad, Iraq is believed to have been orchestrated by the bank's security guards. It is also unclear why an Iraqi bank had US$282 million on hand.
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