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