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  The Wrong Way to End a Career    
Classification Quiz
 10 Qns
Famous Political Assassins by Location
You will have a list of 10 political/ politically motivated assassins. Put them into the area of the world where they COMMITTED their assassinations. The question is only about their most well-known murders not any other crimes they may have done.
Easier, 10 Qns, misdiaslocos, Mar 14 24
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  I Was Assassinated   best quiz  
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
Throughout history prominent people have met their untimely demise at the hand of an assassin. Can you work out who these famous victims are?
Average, 10 Qns, fringe, Dec 13 13
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  U.S. Assassination Attempts   best quiz  
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
All multiple choice questions about who were either assassinated, or an attempt was made. This should be fairly easy.
Easier, 10 Qns, Nightmare, Oct 06 18
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Oct 06 18
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  Assassins and Their Victims   best quiz  
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
Some people, it seems, just can't wait for elections to overthrow their leaders!
Tough, 10 Qns, Cymruambyth, Aug 27 13
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In the history of the world many people have been assassinated. Match the assassin with the target and I will give you a historical background on why they did it.
Very Easy, 10 Qns, mashfan105, Nov 12 18
Very Easy
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Nov 12 18
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  Assassinations in History   popular trivia quiz  
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
Questions about assassinations of prominent figures throughout history. Most are common knowledge. Some are fairly obscure and difficult.
Average, 10 Qns, club_soda, May 15 16
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  Presidential Assassins   popular trivia quiz  
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
Assassins and would-be assassins of presidents and would-be presidents.
Average, 10 Qns, robert362, Sep 23 07
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  Assassins' Middle Names   great trivia quiz  
Multiple Choice
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In the movie "Conspiracy Theory", Jerry Fletcher (Mel Gibson) comments, "Did you ever notice that serial killers have two names (Ted Bundy, Richard Ramirez, Clifford Olson) while assassins have three names?" Do you know these assassin's middle names?
Average, 10 Qns, arsenalvcc, Jan 18 15
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  Assassins and Their Actions   great trivia quiz  
Multiple Choice
 15 Qns
Details of some major assassinations.
Average, 15 Qns, thorin4th, Nov 27 15
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  The Assassination of Robert Kennedy   great trivia quiz  
Multiple Choice
 15 Qns
From triumph to tragedy in an instant, this was one of the biggest news stories of the 1960s, yet so much less is written about it than about the death of his brother. How much do you know?
Very Difficult, 15 Qns, d2407, Mar 22 04
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trivia question Quick Question
Who was responsible for the death of James A. Garfield in 1881?

From Quiz "Assassins through the Ages"




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  Assassins!   popular trivia quiz  
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
With power comes the danger of assassination. Here are a few dramatic instances.
Average, 10 Qns, Rehaberpro, Dec 08 18
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  Who Killed Whom?   popular trivia quiz  
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
There's no better way of making the history books than assassinating someone important.
Tough, 10 Qns, astorian, Sep 10 11
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  Failed Assassination Attempts   popular trivia quiz  
Match Quiz
 15 Qns
Match the would-be assassins with the correct intended victims.
Average, 15 Qns, nyirene330, Aug 15 18
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  ... Or Else!   popular trivia quiz  
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
Do you know who assassinated which person? Test your knowledge of history's greatest and their untimely deaths. In this case, or else means certain death. (Or near-death)
Average, 10 Qns, MtSarah, May 11 10
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  Unsuccessful Assassins   great trivia quiz  
Multiple Choice
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A look at some attempts that didn't quite come off.
Average, 10 Qns, robert362, Jan 16 10
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  More Assassins!    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
With power and fame comes the danger of assassination. Here are a few more dramatic instances.
Average, 10 Qns, Rehaberpro, Apr 14 16
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  Assassinations    
Multiple Choice
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How much do you know about assassinations in history? Who killed who? Where did certain people die?
Tough, 10 Qns, bigox, May 09 03
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  Why? Assassinations of the 20th Century    
Multiple Choice
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All assassinations leave us with a single question...why? Why did this happen? This quiz focuses on tragic assassinations in the United States during the 20th century. What do you know about them?
Average, 10 Qns, SGTShaw, Oct 10 14
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  Assassins through the Ages   popular trivia quiz  
Multiple Choice
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Throughout history, some of our greatest leaders have been killed. From the choices, pick the actual assassin.
Tough, 10 Qns, nyirene330, Feb 16 09
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  Assassination!   popular trivia quiz  
Multiple Choice
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This quiz will test your knowledge of political assassins and their victims.
Tough, 10 Qns, berrigan, Mar 24 11
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  Female Assassins   great trivia quiz  
Multiple Choice
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The role of assassin has usually been identified as predominantly male. However, there have been a surprising number of female assassins. Can you identify them?
Difficult, 10 Qns, pshelton, Mar 06 17
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  Assassinations and Attempts    
Multiple Choice
 15 Qns
Hello! I hope you enjoy my quiz. Most questions are quite easy, while some may be a bit more challenging. Just have fun!
Average, 15 Qns, Jewelz2003, Apr 26 18
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Assassinations Trivia Questions

1. This assassination brought great sadness to the music world. One of the most famous musicians in history was shot in New York City by an obsessive fan. Who was this?

From Quiz
Why? Assassinations of the 20th Century

Answer: John Lennon

John Lennon was returning home from a recording session with his wife, Yoko Ono, during the late hours of December 8th, 1980. The assassin, Mark David Chapman, shot Lennon four times in the back, later surrendering to police. Lennon was rushed to the hospital, but was dead on arrival. He was only forty years old.

2. Most are familiar with the assassination of John Lennon by Mark David Chapman on 8 December 1980. However, another Beatle survived a later assassination attempt. Who was it?

From Quiz More Assassins!

Answer: George Harrison

On December 30, 1999, Michael Abrams, believing that George Harrison had taken control of his mind and that he was on a mission for God, entered Harrison's house and with a kitchen knife stabbed Harrison seven times, puncturing a lung and causing head injuries. The confrontation lasted an estimated fifteen minutes until police arrived who had been summoned by Oliva, Harrison's wife. He was found to be insane and was sentenced to treatment. He was released in 2002. Harrison, who already had been diagnosed with lung cancer, died on November 29, 2001.

3. Abraham Lincoln, the sixteenth American president, was assassinated on April 14th, in 1865, but do you know who assassinated him?

From Quiz ... Or Else!

Answer: John Wilkes Booth

John Wilkes Booth was an actor and Confederate spy from Maryland, USA. At first, he planned to kidnap Lincoln in order to bring about the release of Confederate prisoners, but after hearing a speech of Lincoln's that promoted African-American voting rights, he changed his mind, and decided instead to assassinate Lincoln. While Lincoln was watching the play, "Our American Cousin", at Ford's Theatre, Booth snuck up to the state box and waited for a funny line of the play (so that the laughter would muffle the gunshot). Then, he jumped into the box and fired at Lincoln's head. Lincoln lay in a coma for nine hours before being pronounced dead.

4. In 1948, this person assassinated Mahatma Gandhi.

From Quiz Assassination!

Answer: Nathuram Godse

Godse killed Mahatma Ghandi on January 30, 1948. After the assassination, he surrendered to Indian police and was hanged at Ambala Jail the next year.

5. 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?

From Quiz Female Assassins

Answer: Charlotte Corday

Marie-Anne Charlotte Corday was born in France on 27 July 1768 and became a sympathizer with the Girondists during the French Revolution. This party was more restrained in their radical views than the revolutionary Jean-Paul Marat. On the pretext of betraying Girondists names to Marat, Charlotte Corday stabbed him to death on 9 July 1793. She blamed him for many of the deaths which had occurred from mobs incited with revolutionary fervor. Charlotte was guillotined for the crime 17 July 1793.

6. During the French Revolution (1789-1799), a well-known member of the Jacobin Club was stabbed to death in his bathtub by Charlotte Corday, a member of a rival political faction. Who was this activist?

From Quiz Assassinations in History

Answer: Jean-Paul Marat

The reason Marat was always in his bathtub was because he had a skin disease and the only way to alleviate the discomfort was to take a hot bath. His assassination was immortalized in the famous painting by the artist David entitled 'The Death of Marat'.

7. This actor used his middle name professionally, until he shot Lincoln.

From Quiz Assassins' Middle Names

Answer: Wilkes

John Wilkes Booth, who was a very popular actor at the time, actually attended Lincoln's second inauguration as the invited guest of Lucy Hale, his secret fiancée. On April 14, 1865, Booth managed to sneak into Lincoln's booth at Ford's Theatre and shot him in the back of the head with his .44 caliber Derringer pistol. After breaking his leg jumping onto the stage, Booth was pursued by Union soldiers and was killed in the tobacco barn at Garrett's farm. Information from brainyencyclopedia.com, wikipedia.org, and answers.com

8. This man is one of the most famous assassins in history. Along with others, he put an end to the life and career of Julius Caesar. According to Shakespeare, Caesar's dying words were addressed to him.

From Quiz Assassins and Their Victims

Answer: Brutus

While Cassius was certainly one of the pack of assassins who killed Caesar on the steps of the Roman Forum, it is Brutus to whom Caesar said, with surprise, "You too, Brutus?" Fearing the extent of Caesar's power, several of the Roman senators, Brutus among them, conspired to kill the Roman dictator on March 15, 44 BC. Narcissus was the man who killed the Emperor Commodus, and Gracchus had been dead about one hundred years by the time Caesar bought the farm.

9. How had Kennedy fared in his most recent primary before California?

From Quiz The Assassination of Robert Kennedy

Answer: Lost the Oregon primary

Kennedy lost the Oregon primary on May 28 to Eugene McCarthy, the first election defeat a Kennedy had ever sustained. Kennedy was said to remark afterward that he was destined to lose because Oregon didn't have slums.

10. What great human being was shot and killed by James Earl Ray?

From Quiz U.S. Assassination Attempts

Answer: Martin Luther King Jr.

King was shot April 4, 1968, in Memphis, Tennessee. He died the same day.

11. What Israeli Prime Minister was shot in 1995 by an ultra-conservative Zionist who thought he was too accommodating to the Palestinians?

From Quiz Who Killed Whom?

Answer: Yitzhak Rabin

Yigal Amir, who committed the crime, said that he'd acted on God's orders, and had no regrets.

12. Anthony Babington was the key figure in the so-called "Babington Plot". Which English monarch was the target of this would-be assassination?

From Quiz Unsuccessful Assassins

Answer: Queen Elizabeth I

Elizabeth may well have been one of the most influential women in history. She ruled at a time (late 1500s, early 1600s) that was colorful and filled with intrigue. Babington unwisely planned to dispose of her - but the plot was detected at an early stage and never had a chance of success. Babington was executed.

13. Imagine, in 1980 I was just getting back into recording when my life was wiped out by four shots fired by a "fan" outside my apartment building in New York. Who am I?

From Quiz I Was Assassinated

Answer: John Lennon & Lennon & John Winston Lennon

John Winston Lennon was born in Liverpool, England in 1940 and raised by his aunt and uncle. Soon after the breakup of The Beatles in 1970, John and his new wife, Yoko Ono, moved to America. On December 8th 1980 Mark David Chapman shot and killed him outside the Dakota Building in New York.

14. Richard Lawrence was one of the first people (if not the first) to attempt to kill a president. Which president was his target?

From Quiz Presidential Assassins

Answer: Andrew Jackson

He used a pistol; it misfired.

15. Gavrilo Princip, who assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand, thereby precipitating WWI, and indirectly WWII, was:

From Quiz Assassins and Their Actions

Answer: a Serb

Obviously, if there had been no WWI, and the harsh reparations of the Treaty of Versailles, the chances for the Nazis to control Germany would have been much less.

16. How many people were executed for the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln?

From Quiz Assassinations

Answer: Four

Lewis Powell (or Paine), David Herold, George Atzerodt, and Mary Surrat were all hanged for being co-conspirators of John Wilkes Booth. Hundreds of people were investigated and imprisoned for being allegedly linked to the conspiracy.

17. Harvey Milk was assassinated in California on November 27th, 1978. What was his significance?

From Quiz Why? Assassinations of the 20th Century

Answer: First openly gay man elected to public office in California

Harvey Milk served on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1978. As a gay man, he was an advocate for gay rights in California. He was strongly opposed by city supervisor Dan White, who, on November 27th, 1978, assassinated Milk and Mayor Moscone. Milk remains one of the most influential LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) figures in American history.

18. Nathuram Godse and co-conspirator Narayan Apte on January 30,1948 assassinated which Indian leader whose tactic for change was passive resistance?

From Quiz More Assassins!

Answer: Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

Nathuram Godse and Narayan Apte were Hindi nationalists and were concerned regarding what they considered appeasement of Pakistan by India. They were executed on November 15, 1949. Gandhi was killed while on a platform preparing to speak. An estimated two million people took part in the five mile long funeral procession. Gandhi inspired movements for non-violence, civil rights, and freedom across the world.

19. Mehmet Ali Agca on May 13, 1981 attempted to assassinate which Pope?

From Quiz Assassins!

Answer: John Paul II

Mehmet Ali Agca was a member of a Turkish terrorist group called the Gray Wolves. In 1979 he assassinated Abdi Ýpekçi, a prominent Turkish journalist. Later he was assigned to a team to kill the Pope. The plot did not quite go on as planned as a diversionary explosion did not occur that was to cover Agca's escape. However, he was able to pump four bullets into John Paul II but was immediately caught. At his trial two months later he was sentenced to life imprisonment. John Paul II survived his critical wounds and made a public forgiveness of Mehmet Ali Agca. He also visited and corresponded with his assailant and his family. After twenty years, Mehmet was deported to Turkey to face charges there and was again imprisoned. Due to the introduction of a new penal code in Turkey, he was released on parole in 2010 and moved to Poland.

20. James Garfield was assassinated; who was he assassinated by?

From Quiz ... Or Else!

Answer: Charles J. Guiteau

Charles J. Guiteau shot James A. Garfield in 1881 because he believed, after being refused a federal position, that God wanted him to shoot Garfield. Guiteau belonged to a religious society known as the Oneida Community, which his father was already closely connected to. Guiteau left the group twice; the first time to start a newspaper, and the second time that he left, he actually filed a lawsuit against the leader of the community! In a letter to Guiteau's father, Nayes, the community leader, stated that he did not hold any ill-will towards Guiteau, but that "I consider him insane". He definitely was a religious extremist!

21. This person was the chief assassin of Egyptian president Anwar Sadat on October 6, 1981.

From Quiz Assassination!

Answer: Khalid Islambouli

Islambouli arranged and carried out Sadat's assassination. He was a member of Egyptian Islamic Jihad. Islambouli and three co-conspirators were executed by firing squad in 1982.

22. This young woman killed warlord Sun Chuanfang on 13 November 1935 in revenge for the murder of her father. Who was she?

From Quiz Female Assassins

Answer: Shi Jianqiao

Shi Jianqiao's story and her prominent trial generated such public sympathy that she was ultimately pardoned for the crime.

23. On December 8th, 1980, singer and composer John Lennon was returning to his residence when a man came out and shot Lennon five times, fatally wounding him. What was the name of the man who assassinated Lennon?

From Quiz Assassinations in History

Answer: Mark David Chapman

Mark David Chapman was obsessed with John Lennon. He even went so far as to marry a Japanese-American woman because she resembled Yoko Ono, the wife of John Lennon.

24. What was the middle name of Leon Czolgosz, who shot President William McKinley?

From Quiz Assassins' Middle Names

Answer: Frank

On September 6, 1901, Leon Frank Czolgoz went to the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York, where President McKinley was greeting the public. Concealing his pistol in a bandaged hand, he shot McKinley twice at point blank range. Found guilty after a short trial, Czolgosz was executed on October 31st by electrocution. His last words were "I killed the President because he was the enemy of the good people, the good working people. I am not sorry for my crime." Information from brainyencyclopedia.com, wikipedia.org, and answers.com

25. Byron de la Beckwith's victim was shot in the back while walking from his car to his front door.

From Quiz Assassins and Their Victims

Answer: Medgar Evers

Following his rejection by the then-segregated University of Mississippi when he applied to enter its law school in 1954, Medgar Evers became the focus for the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People's fight to have the university desegregated. It wasn't until 1962, when the U.S. Supreme Court declared the University's non-admission of African-American students to be unconstitutional, that the fight was won. (James Meredith was the first African-American to enroll at the University of Mississippi.) Meantime, Evers had become the first field officer for the NAACP in Mississippi, and it was when he was returning home from a meeting with NAACP lawyers early on the morning of June 12, 1963, that Evers was shot in the back in the driveway of his home. He managed to crawl the 30 feet to the front door before collapsing, and died 50 minutes later in hospital. Byron de la Beckwith, a member of the White Citizens' Council in Jackson, Mississippi, was arrested for the murder, but all-white juries at two trials were deadlocked and de la Beckwith went free. It wasn't until new evidence emerged in 1994 that he was re-tried. This time he was found guilty and sentenced to life in prison, where he died in 2001. Huey Long, the flamboyant former governor of Louisiana, was killed on September 10, 1935. The supposed assassin, Carl Weiss, was immediately shot and killed by Long's bodyguards. There has been speculation that Weiss only slapped Long, and that Long was actually killed in the hail of bullets fired by the bodyguards. Malcolm X, a disciple of Elijah Muhammed, the founder of the Black Muslims, was shot down as he addressed a gathering in the Audubon Ballroom in New York on February 21, 1965. His chief assassin, Talmadge Hayer, along with two others, was convicted of the murder. There is speculation that the killing was prompted by Malcolm's recantation, following a Haj to Mecca in 1964, of his former hatred of all whites. Where formerly he had preached violence, he had changed his views and saw that peaceful resolution was the path to follow. George Wallace, four time governor of Alabama, was paralyzed in an unsuccessful assassination attempt by Arthur Bremer on May 15, 1972 and spent the rest of his life in a wheel chair. Wallace, who had been an ardent racist, became a born-again Christian in the late '70s, and apologized to leaders of the African-American community for his former remarks, views and actions against them. In his final term as Governor of Alabama he appointed a record number of African-Americans to government positions. He died in 1998.

26. Where had Kennedy spent most of his time on the day of the California primary?

From Quiz The Assassination of Robert Kennedy

Answer: At the home of director John Frankenheimer

Frankenheimer, who had directed the 1962 film "The Manchurian Candidate," was a close friend of Kennedy's. The candidate and his family stayed with Frankenheimer the night before the primary, after a marathon day of campaigning in the three major cities of California. He spent his day swimming and relaxing. The Kennedys and Frankenheimer dined together on election night, before being driven by Frankenheimer to the Ambassador Hotel. Frankenheimer was to have taken the Kennedys to a nightspot after Kennedy met with the press. The director watched Kennedy's victory speech from backstage and went to retrieve his car, learning of the shooting from the radio.

27. In 1975, which U.S. President escaped an assassination attempt?

From Quiz U.S. Assassination Attempts

Answer: Gerald Ford

In Sacramento, California, Lynette 'Squeaky' Fromme pointed a .45 automatic at the President but never fired. Two weeks later in San Francisco, another attempt was made by Sara Jane Moore, who fired one shot from a .38, but the bullet was deflected.

28. Gavrilo Princip, who triggered the First World War by assassinating the Archduke Franz Ferdinand, was a member of what Serbian radical group?

From Quiz Who Killed Whom?

Answer: The Black Hand

Black September was a Palestinian group, the Shining Path are Peruvian, and the Baader-Meinhof Gang was German.

29. The bomb plot to kill Hitler did not succeed. What prominent German figure was forced to commit suicide as a result of his participation in the plot?

From Quiz Unsuccessful Assassins

Answer: Erwin Rommel

Von Stauffenberg's bomb attempt on 20 July 1944 unfortunately failed to do the job. Rommel, a great war hero until that time, paid with his life.

30. This man, once a Secretary of State, escaped an assassination attempt by Lewis Powell, an accomplice of John W. Booth.

From Quiz Assassinations and Attempts

Answer: William Seward & Seward

Powell's assassination attempt was made in the same year that Abraham Lincoln was shot - 1865.

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