- 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) Teddy Roosevelt
B) Martin Luther King Jr.
C) John F. Kennedy
D) Abraham Lincoln
- 2. Which ancient Roman general and dictator was famously assassinated on the Ides of March?
A) Augustus
B) Pompey
C) Julius Caesar
D) Nero
- 3. Who assassinated Mahatma Gandhi in 1948?
A) Jawaharlal Nehru
B) Arun Jaitley
C) Nathuram Godse
D) Indira Gandhi
- 4. Which US President was assassinated by anarchist Leon Czolgosz in 1901?
A) Benjamin Harrison
B) James Garfield
C) Theodore Roosevelt
D) William McKinley
- 5. Who was the first Prime Minister of India to be assassinated, in 1984?
A) Morarji Desai
B) Jawaharlal Nehru
C) Rajiv Gandhi
D) Indira Gandhi
- 6. Which Russian revolutionary and politician was assassinated in Mexico in 1940?
A) Nikita Khrushchev
B) Vladimir Lenin
C) Leon Trotsky
D) Joseph Stalin
- 7. Who was the Swedish Prime Minister who was assassinated in 1986?
A) Göran Persson
B) Stefan Löfven
C) Carl Bildt
D) Olof Palme
- 8. In what city was President Abraham Lincoln assassinated in 1865?
A) Boston
B) Washington, D.C.
C) New York City
D) Philadelphia
- 9. In what year was Anwar Sadat, the President of Egypt, assassinated?
A) 1967
B) 1981
C) 1991
D) 2001
- 10. Which American rapper was shot and killed in a drive-by shooting in 1996?
A) Snoop Dogg
B) Tupac Shakur
C) The Notorious B.I.G.
D) Ice Cube
- 11. Who assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, triggering the start of World War I?
A) Gavrilo Princip
B) Adolf Hitler
C) Benito Mussolini
D) Vladimir Lenin
- 12. Which Egyptian leader was killed by the Islamic Jihad in 1981?
A) Abdel Fattah el-Sisi
B) Hosni Mubarak
C) Anwar Sadat
D) Gamal Abdel Nasser
- 13. Who was assassinated while giving a speech at the Audubon Ballroom in New York City in 1965?
A) Jesse Jackson
B) Malcolm X
C) Medgar Evers
D) Martin Luther King Jr.
- 14. Which British Prime Minister was nearly assassinated by the IRA in 1984?
A) Margaret Thatcher
B) David Cameron
C) Tony Blair
D) Winston Churchill
- 15. Who was the Prime Minister of Israel assassinated in 1995?
A) Yitzhak Rabin
B) Benjamin Netanyahu
C) Ehud Barak
D) Ariel Sharon
- 16. Which US civil rights leader was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1968?
A) Jesse Jackson
B) Malcolm X
C) Martin Luther King Jr.
D) Rosa Parks
- 17. Which US President survived two assassination attempts in 1912 and 1933?
A) Calvin Coolidge
B) Woodrow Wilson
C) Franklin D. Roosevelt
D) Herbert Hoover
- 18. In which country was Prime Minister Indira Gandhi assassinated in 1984?
A) Pakistan
B) Sri Lanka
C) India
D) Bangladesh
- 19. In what country was former Chilean President Orlando Letelier assassinated in a car bombing in 1976?
A) United States
B) Spain
C) Chile
D) Argentina
- 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) Cleopatra
B) Brutus
C) Mark Antony
D) Caesar Augustus
- 22. Who was the President of Pakistan who was assassinated in 2007?
A) Nawaz Sharif
B) Asif Ali Zardari
C) Pervez Musharraf
D) Benazir Bhutto
- 23. Who was the Roman emperor assassinated by his own guards in 41 AD?
A) Nero
B) Tiberius
C) Claudius
D) Caligula
- 24. Which American civil rights leader was assassinated in 1940 by a prominent white supremacist?
A) Walter Francis White
B) Jesse Jackson
C) Medgar Evers
D) Fred Hampton
- 25. Who was the only US President to resign from office following the Watergate scandal?
A) Gerald Ford
B) Richard Nixon
C) Lyndon B. Johnson
D) Jimmy Carter
- 26. Which US President survived an assassination attempt by John Hinckley Jr. in 1981?
A) Jimmy Carter
B) Bill Clinton
C) George H. W. Bush
D) Ronald Reagan
- 27. Which US President was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth in 1865?
A) Andrew Jackson
B) George Washington
C) Abraham Lincoln
D) Thomas Jefferson
- 28. Which dictator was assassinated on Christmas Day in 1989?
A) Nicolae Ceausescu
B) Muammar Gaddafi
C) Augusto Pinochet
D) Fidel Castro
- 29. In what year was Abraham Lincoln assassinated?
A) 1876
B) 1865
C) 1907
D) 1899
- 30. Which French revolutionary leader was assassinated in a bathtub in 1793?
A) Louis XVI
B) Marie Antoinette
C) Maximilien Robespierre
D) Jean-Paul Marat
- 31. Which organization was responsible for the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria?
A) Black Hand
B) Mafia
C) Yakuza
D) KGB
- 32. Which Russian Czar was assassinated along with his family by the Bolsheviks in 1918?
A) Ivan the Terrible
B) Alexander II
C) Nicholas II
D) Peter the Great
- 33. Who was the first US President to have a serious assassination attempt against him?
A) Andrew Jackson
B) Thomas Jefferson
C) Theodore Roosevelt
D) Abraham Lincoln
- 34. Who assassinated Robert F. Kennedy in 1968?
A) Lee Harvey Oswald
B) Sirhan Sirhan
C) James Earl Ray
D) John Wilkes Booth
- 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) Japanese
B) British
C) Russian
D) American
- 37. Which political figure was assassinated by two Polish nationalist students in 1913?
A) Archduke Franz Ferdinand
B) Winston Churchill
C) Kaiser Wilhelm II
D) Tsar Nicholas II
- 38. In what European city was Archduke Franz Ferdinand assassinated in 1914?
A) Prague
B) Vienna
C) Sarajevo
D) Budapest
- 39. Which African leader was assassinated in 1961 for his anti-colonial views?
A) Julius Nyerere
B) Patrice Lumumba
C) Kwame Nkrumah
D) Nelson Mandela
- 40. Who was assassinated by Mark David Chapman in front of his apartment building in New York City?
A) George Harrison
B) John Lennon
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) Grigori Rasputin
B) Joseph Stalin
C) Vladimir Lenin
D) Leon Trotsky
- 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) Lee Myung-bak
B) Park Chung-hee
C) Roh Moo-hyun
D) Kim Dae-jung
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