Fun Trivia : Presidential Assassinations

Structure Sub-topic of: Presidential Trivia Quizzes Interesting Questions, Facts and Information There are a total of 25 general entries. Special Topics The Neighbors Did What? Have A History Teacher Explain This Part 1 Have A History Teacher Explain This Part 2 Lincoln/Kennedy; Kennedy/Lincoln. Assassination Attempts on U.S. Presidents Failed Assassinations of US Presidents

Interesting Questions, Facts, and Information

Presidential Assassinations

Whose trial became a circus with him ranting (his attorney argued he was insane, but the jury found him guilty)?

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Guiteau.



Who died at the same hospital where the President that he killed was pronounced dead?

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Oswald. Just a couple days later.



Who was a wild child and shot cats and dogs for fun?

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Booth.



Who was a favorite of the ladies due to his dashing good looks?

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Booth.



Who was described as being fair haired, slender, with a somewhat vacant expression and suffered a breakdown prior to the assassination?

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Czolgosz.



Why was Oswald discharged from the Marines?

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hardship.



Who planned to kill the president earlier, but backed down when he saw the president's wife with him?

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Guiteau.



Who first planned to kidnap the president?

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Booth.



Who was initially arrested for the murder of J.D. Tippit?

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Oswald. Tippit was a police officer. The assumption is he was trying to arrest Oswald after he heard about the shooting and a description of the wanted man.



Who was a self-proclaimed anarchist?

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Czolgosz.



Which president did Alexander Graham Bell try to help with an electric device?

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Garfield. He used the device to try to locate the bullet in Garfield's back. However, Garfield probably died from the infection resulting from the doctors sticking their fingers in the wound without gloves or washing.



Who shouted, 'I am a Stalwart,' after assassinating the president and had a cab waiting to take him to jail?

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Guiteau.



Which president has a museum detailing his assassination called The Sixth Floor Museum?

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Kennedy. The floor of the Texas School Book Depository where the shots were supposedly fired in Dallas.



Who lived the longest of any of the assassins after his horrible act...nine months?

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Guiteau.



Whose last words were, 'Useless, useless'?

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Booth.



Who was the first assassinated president to be buried at Arlington Cemetery?

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Kennedy.



Who arranged Kennedy's fateful trip to Dallas?

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Lyndon Johnson.



Which assassin's wife divorced him for cruelty?

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Guiteau.



Who whispered, 'My wife, be careful, Cortel you, how you tell her, oh, be careful'?

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McKinley.



Who came from a family of clearly psychotic people (his father believed himself to be immortal)?

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Guiteau.



How many were convicted of conspiracy to kill Lincoln?

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8. David E. Herold, George Atzerodt, Lewis Paine, and Mary Surratt were hung. Dr. Samuel Mudd (who was undoubtedly innocent), Edward Spangler (theater stage hand), and Lincoln's boyhood friends, Samuel Arnold and Michael O'Laughlin were imprisoned. O'Laughlin died in prison in 1867. President Johnson pardoned Arnold, Mudd, and Spangler in 1869.