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Quiz

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On this day in 1868, the Ma¯ori chief Te Kooti and 300 followers overpowere­d their captors and escaped from the Chatham Islands on a captured schooner. What do you know about dramatic escapes?

1. The Oscar-winning 2012 film Argo dramatised the escape of American hostages from which country?

2. Which Asian leader fled his own country in a historic 1959 escape?

3. How was bank robber John Killick snatched from Sydney’s Silverwate­r Prison in 1999?

4. Which famous fugitive escaped from London’s Wandsworth Prison in 1965 and remained at large for 36 years?

5. Which famous fictional character escaped an island prison by taking the place of a body that was to be buried at sea?

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