Al Capone Trivia Questions With Answers
Who was Al Capone?
A: Alphonse Gabriel "Al" Capone was an American gangster.
His seven-year reign as a crime boss ended when he was how
old?
A: 33 years old.
What was Al Capone's birth name?
A: Alphonse Gabriel Capone.
How many children did Alphonse and Gabriel have?
A: Nine.
Who were Al Capone's parents?
A: Gabriele and Teresa.
What was Al Capone's father's occupation?
A: A Barber.
What did Al's mother do?
A: She was a seamstress.
On what date was Al Capone born?
A: January 17, 1899.
Where was Al Capone born?
A: Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
When did Al Capone die?
A: He died on January 25, 1947.
How old was Cal Capone when he died?
A: 48.
What religion was Al Capone?
A: Roman Catholic.
Capone showed promise as a student, but had trouble with
the rules at what?
A: His strict parochial Catholic school.
Capone dropped out of school at the age of 14, after being
expelled for what?
A: For hitting a female teacher in the face.
How many children did Al Capone have?
A: One, Albert Francis "Sonny" Capone.
Al Capone was born in to what?
A: Italian immigrants.
What did Capone do on December 30,
1918, at age 19?
A: He married Mae Josephine Coughlin.
Earlier that month, she had given birth to their what?
A: First son, Albert Francis ("Sonny") Capone.
Capone was a Five Points Gang member who became a what?
A: A bouncer in organized crime premises such as brothels.
When Capone was in his early twenties, what city did he
moved to?
A: Chicago.
There, he became bodyguard and trusted factotum for whom?
A: Johnny Torrio, head of a criminal syndicate.
Torrio illegally supplied alcohol and he was
politically
protected through what?
A: The Unione Siciliane.
After North Side gunmen almost killed Torrio, what did he
do?
A: He retired and moved back to Italy.
Capone took over and expanded the bootlegging business
through what?
A: Increasingly violent means.
Capone made donations to various charities and was viewed
by many as a what?
A: A "modern-day Robin Hood".
The federal authorities became intent on jailing Capone and
prosecuted him for what in 1931?
A: Tax evasion.
Capone was convicted and sentenced to a
then-record-breaking what?
A: 11 years in federal prison.
Already showing signs of syphilitic dementia by early in
his sentence, he became debilitated and was released after how many years?
A: 8.
On January 25, 1947, Capone died of cardiac arrest after
what?
A: Suffering a stroke.
