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'Boardwalk Empire' Trivia!

Answer correctly, and you could win a full-size 'Boardwalk Empire' poster. Two posters will be given away, so try your luck by leaving your answers in the Comments section below.

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Answer the following trivia questions correctly and be entered to win a large Boardwalk Empire poster. We have two available.

Participants must be 18 or older and provide correct e-mail address when answering (in the comments portion below) so we can contact you for shipping of the winnings.

 

OK, here they go:

1. What did Senior Prohibition Agent Nelson Van Alden claim to be the cause of death of his partner Agent Sebso?

2. Which of the following six themes have not yet been presented in the multi-part Atlantic City Weekly web video series "Atlantic City History: Conversations & Storytelling"?

 

The web video series was filmed at Caesars right before the viewing party for the debut episode of HBO's Boardwalk Empire on Sept. 19 and included a panel discussion of the following topics by Atlantic City authors and historians including Vicki Gold Levi, Allen "Boo" Pergament, Ralph Hunter, Jim Waltzer, Pinky Kravitz and Israel Posner.

a. "Entertainment & Nightlife"

b. "The Boardwalk"

c. "Nucky Johnson"

d. "Gambling (Legal or Otherwise)"

e. "The African American Experience"

f. "Sports in AC and Camp Boardwalk"

 

Leave your answers below in the comments portion. Two winners will be contacted.

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1. Chris King said... on Dec 6, 2010 at 05:29PM


Q1) A heart attack
Q2) Gambling (legal or otherwise) & "The Boardwalk"
- kinda a trick question though.”

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2. Anonymous said... on Dec 6, 2010 at 05:59PM

“1.Heart attack
2.c.Nucky Johnson”

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3. Molly B said... on Dec 6, 2010 at 06:34PM

“1) Heart Attack :(
2) d. Gambling (legal or otherwise)”

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4. Peter Gladue said... on Dec 6, 2010 at 06:48PM

“1) Heart Attack
2) Gambling (legal or otherwise)”

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5. MJarvis said... on Dec 6, 2010 at 07:23PM

“Heart Attack
Gambling (legal or otherwise)”

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6. Ren D said... on Dec 6, 2010 at 09:26PM

“1. Heart attack
2. "Gambling (Legal or Otherwise)"”

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7. jerrio1021 said... on Dec 7, 2010 at 04:10PM

“1. Heart Failure
2. Gambling”

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8. Chris Di Saverio said... on Dec 8, 2010 at 01:39AM

“1) A heart attack (Alden actually drowned him in a lake)

2) Gambling (legal or otherwise)”

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9. sandy m said... on Dec 8, 2010 at 04:22AM

“1. heart attack
2. gambling”

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10. JOHN said... on Dec 9, 2010 at 08:57AM

“HEART ATTACT
GAMBLING”

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11. Lav said... on Dec 9, 2010 at 07:47PM

“1.The agent Murdered him, by drowning him in the lake but told people he had a heart attack.
2. Gambling

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12. MARGIE MCQUILLEN said... on Jan 4, 2011 at 03:59PM

“A HEART ATTACK, AND GAMBLING, LEGAL OR OTHERWISE
A GREAT SHOW!”

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