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Political Prisoners Quiz: Discover the Stories Behind Iconic Figures



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  1. In which other country, besides India, was Mahatma Gandhi imprisoned multiple times?
  2. Which island was Nelson Mandela imprisoned on for 18 of his 27 years of incarceration?
  3. Who was the British MI6 officer imprisoned for espionage in 1961, who escaped from Wormwood Scrubs and fled to the Soviet Union?
  4. What nickname is associated with propaganda broadcaster William Joyce?
  5. Which Welsh-born philosopher and intellectual was imprisoned by the British government for opposing World War I?
  6. Which organization was founded in London in 1961 by lawyer Peter Benenson?
  7. Which IRA member died in 1981 after a hunger strike demanding political prisoner status?
  8. Which Russian opposition critic was poisoned with a nerve agent in 2020 and died in prison in 2024?
  9. For her opposition to the military regime, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi spent 15 years under house arrest in which country?
  10. Who was imprisoned and exiled from 1900 to 1902 for organising the South-Russian Workers Union?
  11. Which Irish statesman and political leader was interned in Dartmoor Prison for participating in the 1916 Easter Rising?
  12. Who is the founder of WikiLeaks, who faced legal battles and extradition attempts for publishing classified documents?
  13. The "Cat and Mouse Act" was a British law that allowed the temporary release of what type of hunger strikers?
  14. What was the nickname of Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, imprisoned for numerous terrorist attacks in the 1970s and 1980s?


Answers



  1. South Africa
  2. Robben Island
  3. George Blake
  4. Lord Haw-Haw
  5. Bertrand Russell
  6. Amnesty International
  7. Bobby Sands
  8. Alexey Navalny
  9. Myanmar
  10. Leon Trotsky
  11. Eamon De Valera
  12. Julian Assange
  13. Suffragettes
  14. Carlos the Jackal