- 1. Assassination is the deliberate act of killing a prominent figure, such as a political leader, public figure, or celebrity, usually for political or ideological reasons. It is a cowardly and morally reprehensible act that is often carried out by individuals or groups seeking to achieve a specific agenda or to instill fear among the populace. The consequences of assassination are far-reaching, leading to instability, unrest, and disruption of the social order. Historically, assassinations have played a significant role in shaping the course of nations and impacting the course of history.
Who was assassinated on November 22, 1963?
A) Martin Luther King Jr.
B) John F. Kennedy
C) Teddy Roosevelt
D) Abraham Lincoln
- 2. Which ancient Roman general and dictator was famously assassinated on the Ides of March?
A) Nero
B) Julius Caesar
C) Pompey
D) Augustus
- 3. Who assassinated Mahatma Gandhi in 1948?
A) Jawaharlal Nehru
B) Indira Gandhi
C) Arun Jaitley
D) Nathuram Godse
- 4. Which US President was assassinated by anarchist Leon Czolgosz in 1901?
A) James Garfield
B) Benjamin Harrison
C) William McKinley
D) Theodore Roosevelt
- 5. Who was the first Prime Minister of India to be assassinated, in 1984?
A) Rajiv Gandhi
B) Jawaharlal Nehru
C) Indira Gandhi
D) Morarji Desai
- 6. Which Russian revolutionary and politician was assassinated in Mexico in 1940?
A) Leon Trotsky
B) Vladimir Lenin
C) Nikita Khrushchev
D) Joseph Stalin
- 7. Who was the Swedish Prime Minister who was assassinated in 1986?
A) Stefan Löfven
B) Carl Bildt
C) Göran Persson
D) Olof Palme
- 8. In what city was President Abraham Lincoln assassinated in 1865?
A) Boston
B) Philadelphia
C) New York City
D) Washington, D.C.
- 9. In what year was Anwar Sadat, the President of Egypt, assassinated?
A) 1967
B) 1981
C) 2001
D) 1991
- 10. Which American rapper was shot and killed in a drive-by shooting in 1996?
A) Tupac Shakur
B) Snoop Dogg
C) Ice Cube
D) The Notorious B.I.G.
- 11. Who assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, triggering the start of World War I?
A) Gavrilo Princip
B) Adolf Hitler
C) Vladimir Lenin
D) Benito Mussolini
- 12. Which Egyptian leader was killed by the Islamic Jihad in 1981?
A) Abdel Fattah el-Sisi
B) Gamal Abdel Nasser
C) Hosni Mubarak
D) Anwar Sadat
- 13. Who was assassinated while giving a speech at the Audubon Ballroom in New York City in 1965?
A) Medgar Evers
B) Jesse Jackson
C) Martin Luther King Jr.
D) Malcolm X
- 14. Which British Prime Minister was nearly assassinated by the IRA in 1984?
A) Tony Blair
B) Winston Churchill
C) Margaret Thatcher
D) David Cameron
- 15. Who was the Prime Minister of Israel assassinated in 1995?
A) Benjamin Netanyahu
B) Yitzhak Rabin
C) Ariel Sharon
D) Ehud Barak
- 16. Which US civil rights leader was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1968?
A) Malcolm X
B) Martin Luther King Jr.
C) Rosa Parks
D) Jesse Jackson
- 17. Which US President survived two assassination attempts in 1912 and 1933?
A) Woodrow Wilson
B) Calvin Coolidge
C) Herbert Hoover
D) Franklin D. Roosevelt
- 18. In which country was Prime Minister Indira Gandhi assassinated in 1984?
A) Bangladesh
B) Sri Lanka
C) Pakistan
D) India
- 19. In what country was former Chilean President Orlando Letelier assassinated in a car bombing in 1976?
A) Chile
B) Argentina
C) Spain
D) United States
- 20. Which Roman Emperor was assassinated by the Praetorian Guard in 192 AD?
A) Septimius Severus
B) Marcus Aurelius
C) Commodus
D) Diocletian
- 21. Who assassinated Julius Caesar?
A) Brutus
B) Mark Antony
C) Cleopatra
D) Caesar Augustus
- 22. Who was the President of Pakistan who was assassinated in 2007?
A) Nawaz Sharif
B) Asif Ali Zardari
C) Benazir Bhutto
D) Pervez Musharraf
- 23. Who was the Roman emperor assassinated by his own guards in 41 AD?
A) Caligula
B) Claudius
C) Nero
D) Tiberius
- 24. Which American civil rights leader was assassinated in 1940 by a prominent white supremacist?
A) Walter Francis White
B) Fred Hampton
C) Medgar Evers
D) Jesse Jackson
- 25. Who was the only US President to resign from office following the Watergate scandal?
A) Gerald Ford
B) Lyndon B. Johnson
C) Richard Nixon
D) Jimmy Carter
- 26. Which US President survived an assassination attempt by John Hinckley Jr. in 1981?
A) Ronald Reagan
B) George H. W. Bush
C) Jimmy Carter
D) Bill Clinton
- 27. Which US President was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth in 1865?
A) Thomas Jefferson
B) Andrew Jackson
C) George Washington
D) Abraham Lincoln
- 28. Which dictator was assassinated on Christmas Day in 1989?
A) Muammar Gaddafi
B) Fidel Castro
C) Nicolae Ceausescu
D) Augusto Pinochet
- 29. In what year was Abraham Lincoln assassinated?
A) 1899
B) 1876
C) 1907
D) 1865
- 30. Which French revolutionary leader was assassinated in a bathtub in 1793?
A) Marie Antoinette
B) Louis XVI
C) Jean-Paul Marat
D) Maximilien Robespierre
- 31. Which organization was responsible for the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria?
A) KGB
B) Mafia
C) Black Hand
D) Yakuza
- 32. Which Russian Czar was assassinated along with his family by the Bolsheviks in 1918?
A) Alexander II
B) Ivan the Terrible
C) Peter the Great
D) Nicholas II
- 33. Who was the first US President to have a serious assassination attempt against him?
A) Abraham Lincoln
B) Theodore Roosevelt
C) Thomas Jefferson
D) Andrew Jackson
- 34. Who assassinated Robert F. Kennedy in 1968?
A) Sirhan Sirhan
B) John Wilkes Booth
C) James Earl Ray
D) Lee Harvey Oswald
- 35. Who was the US President when President Kennedy was assassinated in 1963?
A) Dwight D. Eisenhower
B) Ronald Reagan
C) Richard Nixon
D) Lyndon B. Johnson
- 36. What was the nationality of the man who assassinated John Lennon?
A) British
B) American
C) Russian
D) Japanese
- 37. Which political figure was assassinated by two Polish nationalist students in 1913?
A) Archduke Franz Ferdinand
B) Tsar Nicholas II
C) Winston Churchill
D) Kaiser Wilhelm II
- 38. In what European city was Archduke Franz Ferdinand assassinated in 1914?
A) Prague
B) Budapest
C) Sarajevo
D) Vienna
- 39. Which African leader was assassinated in 1961 for his anti-colonial views?
A) Kwame Nkrumah
B) Julius Nyerere
C) Patrice Lumumba
D) Nelson Mandela
- 40. Who was assassinated by Mark David Chapman in front of his apartment building in New York City?
A) John Lennon
B) George Harrison
C) Paul McCartney
D) Ringo Starr
- 41. Who was the Russian mystic and self-proclaimed holy man who survived several assassination attempts before being killed by a group of nobles?
A) Joseph Stalin
B) Vladimir Lenin
C) Leon Trotsky
D) Grigori Rasputin
- 42. What do the initials 'CIA' stand for in relation to covert operations?
A) Clandestine Information Association
B) Current Information Agency
C) Central Intelligence Agency
D) Covert International Agents
- 43. Who was the South Korean President assassinated by the director of the KCIA in 1979?
A) Kim Dae-jung
B) Park Chung-hee
C) Roh Moo-hyun
D) Lee Myung-bak
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