Famous prisons quiz

David Whitley,

Do you know your Alcatraz from your Robben Island? Or your Eastern State Penitentiary from your Tuol Sleng? Test your knowledge of notorious prisons that have become tourist attractions with this quiz. Anyone getting below 50% gets locked up…

Famous prisons quiz

Do you know your Alcatraz from your Robben Island? Or your Eastern State Penitentiary from your Tuol Sleng? Test your knowledge of notorious prisons that have become tourist attractions with this quiz. Anyone getting below 50% gets locked up…

1 / 10

In which former prison are the Crown Jewels of the United Kingdom kept and put on display?

2 / 10

What have the Sultanahmet Jail in Istanbul, the Charles Street Jail in Boston and Langholmen Prison in Stockholm been transformed into?

3 / 10

Which German castle near Leipzig was transformed into a prisoner of war camp, famous for its escape attempts, in World War II?

4 / 10

The Eastern State Penitentiary was the model for hundreds of prisons around the world, and tours let you see the cell of notorious tax-evading gangster Al Capone. In which US city would you visit it?

5 / 10

Alcatraz, the infamous prison island in San Francisco Bay, is believed to get its name from an archaic Spanish word for which bird?

6 / 10

Chilling, sobering tours of Tuol Sleng Prison are led by former prisoners in which Southeast Asian capital?

7 / 10

Which Alexandre Dumas novel features a political prisoner kept in Chateau d’If, a 16th century island fort off the coast of Marseille?

8 / 10

Port Arthur, a former prison complex used for housing British convicts who reoffended after being transported to Australia, is in which Australian state?

9 / 10

Robben Island, now a major tourist attraction, was the prison home to three former presidents of which country?

10 / 10

Which famous prisoner lived at Longwood House on the Atlantic island of St Helena until he died in 1821?

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