Assassins through the Ages

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1. Let's start with one of the earliest recorded assassinations in 336 BC of Philip II of Macedon. Who stabbed him? Attalus Pausanius Parmenio Thracymachus

2. Name one of the killers of Julius Caesar in 44 BC. Gaius Octavius Mark Antony Suetonius Cassius

3. Who was responsible for the death of James A. Garfield in 1881? Roscoe Conkling Charles Guiteau James G. Blaine Allen Thurman

4. Who was the anarchist who shot President William McKinley in Buffalo in 1901? Leon Czolgosz Lawrence T. Neal Jonathan Wallace Shelby Cullum

5. Who assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife in Sarajevo in 1914? Onno Klopp Karl Kraus Ernst von Hohenberg Gavrilo Princip

6. Nicholas II of Russia and his family were "executed" in 1918 by whom? Eugene Botkin Yakov Yurovsky Ivan Karitonov Alexei Trupp

7. Who murdered Indian leader Mohandas K. Gandhi in 1948? Sardar Patel Nathuram Godse Badshah Khan Sheikh Mehtab

8. Who fired the shot which killed Egyptian President Anwar El Sadat on October 6, 1981? Omar Abdel-Rahman Abd al-Hamid Kishk Ayman al-Zawahiri Khalid Islambouli

9. Who was claimed to have gunned down Philippine leader Benigno Aquino, Jr. on August 21, 1983? Eduardo Cojuangco, Jr. Rolando Galman Jovito Salonga Corazon Agrava

10. Who was believed to be responsible for the death, in 2007, of former Prime Minister of Pakistan, Benazir Bhutto? All of these Baitullah Mehsud Mustafa Abu al-Yazid Lashkar i Jhangvi