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