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The Untouchables Trivia Guide

Directions: Fill out short answers for 1pt each. Use the movie (NOT your neighbor) to answer the questions below. No cell phones during the movie. If you sleep or are observed on your phone, I will not give you credit for this activity regardless or whether or not you turn this in completed. Easier solution…stay awake and ENGAGED! It’s gangsters and Prohibition for Pete’s sake…how can this be boring!

  1. According to the text at the VERY start of the movie, how does Al Capone make a living?

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  1. He is able to make a living this way, because Prohibition was passed by the ______Amendment.
  2. In what city and state does this movie take place? ______
  3. Why does the “bar” in the opening scene get blown up?
  1. For what federal government department does Elliot Ness work for? (they mention it A LOT, and its on his office door shown A LOT. ______
  2. Why was he brought to Chicago? (what’s HIS job?) ______
  3. On the stake out, when the guy sneaks up on Ness and his men, he is using a “new” form of technology, first made famous by Jacob Riis? What was this technology? ______In what urban dwellings did Riis take most of his photos (begins with a “t”)? ______
  4. When Elliot Ness makes his first arrest, he says the criminals are violating the Volstead Act. This law was used to enforce which constitutional amendment? ______
  5. What “new” form of technology are Ness and his family using for nightly entertainment and news? ______
  6. When Elliot Ness goes to Malone’s house, what is it he wants from him?
  1. The accountant, Oscar Wallace, sent to work with Malone and Ness is looking into Capone’s tax returns. What amendment number was created the federal income tax? ______
  2. Why do Malone and Ness go to the police training academy to find recruits instead of getting them from within the police department? (hint: listen to his metaphor about a rotten apple)
  1. There are a lot of immigrants in this movie! Draw conclusions…What country can you assume “George Stone” emigrated from? ______What country can you assume Malone emigrated from? ______Are these two men “new” immigrants or “old”? ______
  2. In what government building did Stone, Malone and Wallace go to for their first big bust? ______
  3. When Al Capone is giving him “team” speech to his gangsters, he mentions two famous baseball players of the 1920’s. From what country did Americans get baseball from? (hint: it’s one of the countries we won in the Spanish American War)______Tell me an example of another spectator sport of the 1900’s: ______
  4. Notice all the Model T Fords!! Who innovated the model T Ford? ______What was this innovation called (it’s used in factories everywhere!) ______
  5. Notice the plane Ness and Malone fly in going to Canada. What was the last name of the brothers that flew the first flight in 1903? ______What city in North Carolina was the sight of this first flight? ______
  6. Note the hand held “tommy guns”! In what war did we first see the use of the machine gun? ______
  7. Suspension bridge in the Canadian horseback scene! What cheaper, faster, easier steel making process allowed for suspension bridges? ______Who was the “captain of industry” that utilized this steel making process to become wealthy? ______
  8. When they catch the man in the fur jacket after the Canadian shootout scene, what information do they think he has that will help them “get Capone”?
  9. What happens to Wallace when he’s leaving the police station?
  1. Ness is talking on a telephone! Whose invention was this? ______
  2. Who are Elliot Ness and Stone waiting for at the train station? ______Why do they want to get him…what info does he have?
  1. They’re gonna bust Al Capone for tax “evasion”. What does it mean if you “evade” your taxes?
  1. Why did the judge finally agree to switch the juries? (what did Ness tell him in private?)
  1. What amendment will repeal Prohibition? ______

Random Trivia: (find on your own time or after the movie ends)

  • Who is one of the most famous architects of Chicago (the White City)? ______
  • Why was Chicago called the White City? ______
  • How long was Capone sentenced to jail? ______
  • How did he die? ______