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