- 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) John F. Kennedy
B) Martin Luther King Jr.
C) Abraham Lincoln
D) Teddy Roosevelt
- 2. Which ancient Roman general and dictator was famously assassinated on the Ides of March?
A) Julius Caesar
B) Nero
C) Augustus
D) Pompey
- 3. Who assassinated Mahatma Gandhi in 1948?
A) Jawaharlal Nehru
B) Indira Gandhi
C) Arun Jaitley
D) Nathuram Godse
- 4. Which US President was assassinated by anarchist Leon Czolgosz in 1901?
A) Theodore Roosevelt
B) Benjamin Harrison
C) James Garfield
D) William McKinley
- 5. Who was the first Prime Minister of India to be assassinated, in 1984?
A) Indira Gandhi
B) Rajiv Gandhi
C) Morarji Desai
D) Jawaharlal Nehru
- 6. Which Russian revolutionary and politician was assassinated in Mexico in 1940?
A) Nikita Khrushchev
B) Leon Trotsky
C) Joseph Stalin
D) Vladimir Lenin
- 7. Who was the Swedish Prime Minister who was assassinated in 1986?
A) Carl Bildt
B) Stefan Löfven
C) Göran Persson
D) Olof Palme
- 8. In what city was President Abraham Lincoln assassinated in 1865?
A) Washington, D.C.
B) New York City
C) Boston
D) Philadelphia
- 9. In what year was Anwar Sadat, the President of Egypt, assassinated?
A) 2001
B) 1967
C) 1991
D) 1981
- 10. Which American rapper was shot and killed in a drive-by shooting in 1996?
A) Ice Cube
B) Snoop Dogg
C) The Notorious B.I.G.
D) Tupac Shakur
- 11. Who assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, triggering the start of World War I?
A) Gavrilo Princip
B) Adolf Hitler
C) Benito Mussolini
D) Vladimir Lenin
- 12. Which Egyptian leader was killed by the Islamic Jihad in 1981?
A) Anwar Sadat
B) Abdel Fattah el-Sisi
C) Hosni Mubarak
D) Gamal Abdel Nasser
- 13. Who was assassinated while giving a speech at the Audubon Ballroom in New York City in 1965?
A) Martin Luther King Jr.
B) Malcolm X
C) Jesse Jackson
D) Medgar Evers
- 14. Which British Prime Minister was nearly assassinated by the IRA in 1984?
A) Tony Blair
B) Margaret Thatcher
C) David Cameron
D) Winston Churchill
- 15. Who was the Prime Minister of Israel assassinated in 1995?
A) Ehud Barak
B) Ariel Sharon
C) Benjamin Netanyahu
D) Yitzhak Rabin
- 16. Which US civil rights leader was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1968?
A) Jesse Jackson
B) Martin Luther King Jr.
C) Rosa Parks
D) Malcolm X
- 17. Which US President survived two assassination attempts in 1912 and 1933?
A) Herbert Hoover
B) Franklin D. Roosevelt
C) Calvin Coolidge
D) Woodrow Wilson
- 18. In which country was Prime Minister Indira Gandhi assassinated in 1984?
A) India
B) Bangladesh
C) Sri Lanka
D) Pakistan
- 19. 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
- 20. Which Roman Emperor was assassinated by the Praetorian Guard in 192 AD?
A) Septimius Severus
B) Diocletian
C) Commodus
D) Marcus Aurelius
- 21. Who assassinated Julius Caesar?
A) Brutus
B) Caesar Augustus
C) Cleopatra
D) Mark Antony
- 22. Who was the President of Pakistan who was assassinated in 2007?
A) Pervez Musharraf
B) Asif Ali Zardari
C) Benazir Bhutto
D) Nawaz Sharif
- 23. Who was the Roman emperor assassinated by his own guards in 41 AD?
A) Claudius
B) Tiberius
C) Nero
D) Caligula
- 24. Which American civil rights leader was assassinated in 1940 by a prominent white supremacist?
A) Jesse Jackson
B) Walter Francis White
C) Medgar Evers
D) Fred Hampton
- 25. Who was the only US President to resign from office following the Watergate scandal?
A) Lyndon B. Johnson
B) Jimmy Carter
C) Gerald Ford
D) Richard Nixon
- 26. Which US President survived an assassination attempt by John Hinckley Jr. in 1981?
A) Jimmy Carter
B) Bill Clinton
C) George H. W. Bush
D) Ronald Reagan
- 27. Which US President was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth in 1865?
A) Thomas Jefferson
B) Abraham Lincoln
C) George Washington
D) Andrew Jackson
- 28. Which dictator was assassinated on Christmas Day in 1989?
A) Muammar Gaddafi
B) Augusto Pinochet
C) Nicolae Ceausescu
D) Fidel Castro
- 29. In what year was Abraham Lincoln assassinated?
A) 1865
B) 1907
C) 1899
D) 1876
- 30. Which French revolutionary leader was assassinated in a bathtub in 1793?
A) Maximilien Robespierre
B) Marie Antoinette
C) Louis XVI
D) Jean-Paul Marat
- 31. Which organization was responsible for the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria?
A) Yakuza
B) KGB
C) Black Hand
D) Mafia
- 32. Which Russian Czar was assassinated along with his family by the Bolsheviks in 1918?
A) Nicholas II
B) Ivan the Terrible
C) Alexander II
D) Peter the Great
- 33. Who was the first US President to have a serious assassination attempt against him?
A) Abraham Lincoln
B) Andrew Jackson
C) Theodore Roosevelt
D) Thomas Jefferson
- 34. Who assassinated Robert F. Kennedy in 1968?
A) Lee Harvey Oswald
B) James Earl Ray
C) Sirhan Sirhan
D) John Wilkes Booth
- 35. Who was the US President when President Kennedy was assassinated in 1963?
A) Richard Nixon
B) Lyndon B. Johnson
C) Dwight D. Eisenhower
D) Ronald Reagan
- 36. What was the nationality of the man who assassinated John Lennon?
A) Russian
B) British
C) American
D) Japanese
- 37. Which political figure was assassinated by two Polish nationalist students in 1913?
A) Kaiser Wilhelm II
B) Archduke Franz Ferdinand
C) Tsar Nicholas II
D) Winston Churchill
- 38. In what European city was Archduke Franz Ferdinand assassinated in 1914?
A) Budapest
B) Prague
C) Vienna
D) Sarajevo
- 39. Which African leader was assassinated in 1961 for his anti-colonial views?
A) Kwame Nkrumah
B) Patrice Lumumba
C) Julius Nyerere
D) Nelson Mandela
- 40. 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
- 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) Leon Trotsky
B) Joseph Stalin
C) Grigori Rasputin
D) Vladimir Lenin
- 42. What do the initials 'CIA' stand for in relation to covert operations?
A) Clandestine Information Association
B) Covert International Agents
C) Central Intelligence Agency
D) Current Information Agency
- 43. Who was the South Korean President assassinated by the director of the KCIA in 1979?
A) Park Chung-hee
B) Kim Dae-jung
C) Lee Myung-bak
D) Roh Moo-hyun
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