- 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) John F. Kennedy
C) Martin Luther King Jr.
D) Abraham Lincoln
- 2. Which ancient Roman general and dictator was famously assassinated on the Ides of March?
A) Pompey
B) Augustus
C) Julius Caesar
D) Nero
- 3. Who assassinated Mahatma Gandhi in 1948?
A) Arun Jaitley
B) Jawaharlal Nehru
C) Nathuram Godse
D) Indira Gandhi
- 4. Which US President was assassinated by anarchist Leon Czolgosz in 1901?
A) William McKinley
B) Theodore Roosevelt
C) Benjamin Harrison
D) James Garfield
- 5. Who was the first Prime Minister of India to be assassinated, in 1984?
A) Rajiv Gandhi
B) Jawaharlal Nehru
C) Indira Gandhi
D) Morarji Desai
- 6. Which Russian revolutionary and politician was assassinated in Mexico in 1940?
A) Vladimir Lenin
B) Leon Trotsky
C) Joseph Stalin
D) Nikita Khrushchev
- 7. Who was the Swedish Prime Minister who was assassinated in 1986?
A) Göran Persson
B) Olof Palme
C) Carl Bildt
D) Stefan Löfven
- 8. In what city was President Abraham Lincoln assassinated in 1865?
A) Philadelphia
B) Washington, D.C.
C) Boston
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) The Notorious B.I.G.
B) Ice Cube
C) Tupac Shakur
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) Abdel Fattah el-Sisi
B) Gamal Abdel Nasser
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) Medgar Evers
B) Jesse Jackson
C) Malcolm X
D) Martin Luther King Jr.
- 14. Which British Prime Minister was nearly assassinated by the IRA in 1984?
A) Tony Blair
B) Winston Churchill
C) David Cameron
D) Margaret Thatcher
- 15. Who was the Prime Minister of Israel assassinated in 1995?
A) Ehud Barak
B) Ariel Sharon
C) Yitzhak Rabin
D) Benjamin Netanyahu
- 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) 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) George Harrison
B) Ringo Starr
C) John Lennon
D) Paul McCartney
- 19. Which US President was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth in 1865?
A) Abraham Lincoln
B) Thomas Jefferson
C) George Washington
D) Andrew Jackson
- 20. Who was the President of Pakistan who was assassinated in 2007?
A) Pervez Musharraf
B) Benazir Bhutto
C) Asif Ali Zardari
D) Nawaz Sharif
- 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) Pakistan
B) Sri Lanka
C) India
D) Bangladesh
- 23. Who assassinated Robert F. Kennedy in 1968?
A) Sirhan Sirhan
B) John Wilkes Booth
C) Lee Harvey Oswald
D) James Earl Ray
- 24. Which African leader was assassinated in 1961 for his anti-colonial views?
A) Patrice Lumumba
B) Kwame Nkrumah
C) Nelson Mandela
D) Julius Nyerere
- 25. In what year was Abraham Lincoln assassinated?
A) 1907
B) 1876
C) 1899
D) 1865
- 26. Who was the Roman emperor assassinated by his own guards in 41 AD?
A) Tiberius
B) Claudius
C) Caligula
D) Nero
- 27. Which French revolutionary leader was assassinated in a bathtub in 1793?
A) Marie Antoinette
B) Louis XVI
C) Jean-Paul Marat
D) Maximilien Robespierre
- 28. Who was the only US President to resign from office following the Watergate scandal?
A) Jimmy Carter
B) Gerald Ford
C) Lyndon B. Johnson
D) Richard Nixon
- 29. Which Roman Emperor was assassinated by the Praetorian Guard in 192 AD?
A) Diocletian
B) Commodus
C) Septimius Severus
D) Marcus Aurelius
- 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) Roh Moo-hyun
D) Lee Myung-bak
- 31. Which organization was responsible for the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria?
A) KGB
B) Yakuza
C) Black Hand
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) Vladimir Lenin
B) Grigori Rasputin
C) Leon Trotsky
D) Joseph Stalin
- 33. Which Russian Czar was assassinated along with his family by the Bolsheviks in 1918?
A) Alexander II
B) Ivan the Terrible
C) Peter the Great
D) Nicholas II
- 34. Who assassinated Julius Caesar?
A) Cleopatra
B) Mark Antony
C) Brutus
D) Caesar Augustus
- 35. What do the initials 'CIA' stand for in relation to covert operations?
A) Current Information Agency
B) Central Intelligence Agency
C) Clandestine Information Association
D) Covert International Agents
- 36. What was the nationality of the man who assassinated John Lennon?
A) American
B) Russian
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) Richard Nixon
B) Dwight D. Eisenhower
C) Lyndon B. Johnson
D) Ronald Reagan
- 39. Which political figure was assassinated by two Polish nationalist students in 1913?
A) Tsar Nicholas II
B) Kaiser Wilhelm II
C) Winston Churchill
D) Archduke Franz Ferdinand
- 40. In what country was former Chilean President Orlando Letelier assassinated in a car bombing in 1976?
A) Chile
B) United States
C) Spain
D) Argentina
- 41. Which American civil rights leader was assassinated in 1940 by a prominent white supremacist?
A) Fred Hampton
B) Medgar Evers
C) Walter Francis White
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) Theodore Roosevelt
D) Thomas Jefferson
- 43. In what European city was Archduke Franz Ferdinand assassinated in 1914?
A) Vienna
B) Prague
C) Sarajevo
D) Budapest
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