Legal Trials in History Quiz

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#1

Which legal trial is famous for its defendant's refusal to confess to witchcraft?

The Salem Witch Trials
The Nuremberg Trials
The O.J. Simpson Trial
The Trial of Galileo Galilei
#2

In which year did the trial of Socrates take place?

399 BC
250 AD
1066
1453
#3

In which city did the trial of Adolf Hitler's principal deputies, often called the 'Nuremberg Trials', take place?

Berlin
Munich
Nuremberg
Hamburg
#4

Which legal trial, held in Israel, convicted Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann?

The Nuremberg Trials
The Eichmann Trial
The Dreyfus Affair
The Salem Witch Trials
#5

Which trial, held in 1925, was dubbed the 'Monkey Trial' due to its focus on the teaching of evolution in schools?

The Scopes Trial
The Salem Witch Trials
The Nuremberg Trials
The Dreyfus Affair
#6

Who was the judge in the trial of Adolf Eichmann?

Judith Sheindlin
Thurgood Marshall
Moshe Landau
John Marshall
#7

Which legal trial marked the beginning of the end for the Roman Republic?

The Trial of Julius Caesar
The Trial of Cicero
The Trial of Spartacus
The Trial of Marcus Licinius Crassus
#8

Which legal trial is often cited as a miscarriage of justice due to its reliance on dubious evidence?

The trial of Joan of Arc
The trial of Richard III
The trial of Thomas Becket
The trial of Anne Boleyn
#9

Who was the defense attorney for the Scopes Monkey Trial?

Clarence Darrow
Johnnie Cochran
F. Lee Bailey
Robert Shapiro
#10

Which legal trial resulted in the condemnation of Alfred Dreyfus for espionage, later revealed to be a miscarriage of justice fueled by anti-Semitism?

The Dreyfus Affair
The Rosenberg Trial
The McMartin Preschool Trial
The O. J. Simpson Trial
#11

Who was the prosecutor in the trial of Charles I of England?

Oliver Cromwell
Thomas More
William Laud
Thomas Wolsey
#12

Who was the judge in the trial of Adolf Hitler's deputy, Rudolf Hess, at the Nuremberg Trials?

Lord Alfred Thompson Denning
Geoffrey Lawrence
Francis Biddle
Telford Taylor
#13

Who was the prosecutor in the trial of the assassins of Abraham Lincoln?

Ulysses S. Grant
Salmon P. Chase
Edwin M. Stanton
Joseph Holt
#14

Who was the prosecutor in the trial of Jack Ruby, the killer of Lee Harvey Oswald?

Jim Garrison
Henry Wade
Vincent Bugliosi
William Kunstler

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