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