Female Assassins

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1. Which young aristocratic woman killed a leader of the French Revolution on 13 July 1793 because she feared he would start a civil war that threatened the new republic? Olympes de Gouges Germaine Godefroy Anne Leclerc Charlotte Corday

2. This young woman killed warlord Sun Chuanfang on 13 November 1935 in revenge for the murder of her father. Who was she? Deng Huizhong Shi Jianqiao Feng Shuyan Qin Liangyu

3. This young woman had already spent several years in a prison camp in Siberia before she shot Vladimir Lenin in Moscow on 30 August 1918. Natalia Posadskaya Anga Rosenbaum Fanya Kaplan Lydia Chukovskaya

4. Which head of state was assassinated by female suicide bomber, Thenmuli Rajaratam, on 21 May 1991? Rajiv Gandhi Motilal Nehru Feroz Gandhi Gulzarilal Nanda

5. Izola Curry attempted to assassinate which civil rights activist on 20 September 1958? Ralph Abernathy Eldredge Cleaver Martin Luther King Jr John Duffy

6. This woman tried to kill Benito Mussolini while he was at a parade 7 April 1926. However, his wounds were so slight that he continued with the parade. Gisella Basso Antonia della Parma Violet Gibson Anna Maria Parlotenchi

7. Which biblical female assassin seduced and killed Holofernes, the general of an invading Assyrian army? Rahab Jael Judith Esther

8. This young woman assassinated a Russian governor in 1914, accusing him of conducting murderous pogroms against the Jewish populace. Anna Paraklevoska Marie Sukloff Sasha Rosenbaum Golda Puskaya

9. Marcia Aurelia Ceionia Demetrias was the favorite mistress of this Roman emperor whom she helped to assassinate in 192 C.E. Commodus Caligula Claudius Didius Julianus

10. What was the name of trained female assassins in old Japan? Onna bugeisha There were no trained female assassins Kunoichi Taika