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