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Presidential Assassinations Trivia Quiz

All about the presidents who have been assassinated and the men who murdered them.

A multiple-choice quiz by Amatullah. Estimated time: 6 mins.

Author
Amatullah

Time
6 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
29,660

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
25

Difficulty
Difficult

Avg Score
13 / 25

Plays
1601

Last 3 plays: BPA1959 (15/25), Guest 24 (20/25), Guest 24 (14/25).

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Question 1 of 25

1. Before this assassin was electrocuted, he said, 'I killed the president because he was an enemy of the good people...the good working people. I am not sorry for my crime.' Hint

Lee Harvey Oswald

John Wilkes Booth

Charles Guiteau

Leon Czolgosz

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Question 2 of 25

2. How many were convicted of conspiracy to kill Lincoln? Hint

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Question 3 of 25

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

Booth

Czolgosz

Guiteau

Oswald

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Question 4 of 25

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

Garfield

Lincoln

McKinley

Kennedy

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Question 5 of 25

5. Which assassin's wife divorced him for cruelty? Hint

Czolgosz

Guiteau

Oswald

Booth

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Question 6 of 25

6. Who arranged Kennedy's fateful trip to Dallas? Hint

Robert Kennedy

Lyndon Johnson

Jackie Kennedy

Dean Rusk

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Question 7 of 25

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

Garfield

Kennedy

Lincoln

McKinley

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Question 8 of 25

8. Whose last words were, 'Useless, useless'?

Answer: (One Word - last name only)

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Question 9 of 25

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

Oswald

Guiteau

Czolgosz

Booth

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Question 10 of 25

10. Which of the following US president's wives did not attend his funeral? Hint

Kennedy

Johnson

Garfield

McKinley

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Question 11 of 25

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

McKinley

Garfield

Lincoln

Kennedy

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Question 12 of 25

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

Guiteau

Booth

Czolgosz

Oswald

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Question 13 of 25

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

McKinley

Kennedy

Garfield

Lincoln

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Question 14 of 25

14. Who was a self-proclaimed anarchist? Hint

Guiteau

Booth

Czolgosz

Oswald

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Question 15 of 25

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

Guiteau

Oswald

Booth

Czolgosz

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Question 16 of 25

16. Who first planned to kidnap the president he ultimately assassinated? Hint

Czolgosz

Booth

Oswald

Guiteau

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Question 17 of 25

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

Lincoln

Czolgosz

Guiteau

Booth

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Question 18 of 25

18. Why was Oswald discharged from the Marines? Hint

hardship

defection

court martialed

completed his stint

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Question 19 of 25

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

Guiteau

Booth

Czolgosz

Oswald

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Question 20 of 25

20. Who of the following was not assassinated? Hint

Lincoln

Garfield

Harrison

McKinley

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Question 21 of 25

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

Czolgosz

Guiteau

Oswald

Booth

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Question 22 of 25

22. Booth had facial hair.

True

False

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Question 23 of 25

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

Booth

Czolgosz

Guiteau

Oswald

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Question 24 of 25

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

Guiteau

Booth

Czolgosz

Oswald

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Question 25 of 25

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

Czolgosz

Guiteau

Booth

Oswald

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. Before this assassin was electrocuted, he said, 'I killed the president because he was an enemy of the good people...the good working people. I am not sorry for my crime.'

Answer: Leon Czolgosz

2. How many were convicted of conspiracy to kill Lincoln?

Answer: 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.

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

Answer: Guiteau

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

Answer: McKinley

5. Which assassin's wife divorced him for cruelty?

Answer: Guiteau

6. Who arranged Kennedy's fateful trip to Dallas?

Answer: Lyndon Johnson

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

Answer: Kennedy

8. Whose last words were, 'Useless, useless'?

Answer: Booth

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

Answer: Guiteau

10. Which of the following US president's wives did not attend his funeral?

Answer: McKinley

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

Answer: Kennedy

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

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

Answer: Guiteau

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

Answer: 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.

14. Who was a self-proclaimed anarchist?

Answer: Czolgosz

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

Answer: 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.

16. Who first planned to kidnap the president he ultimately assassinated?

Answer: Booth

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

Answer: Guiteau

18. Why was Oswald discharged from the Marines?

Answer: hardship

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

Answer: Czolgosz

20. Who of the following was not assassinated?

Answer: Harrison

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

Answer: Booth

22. Booth had facial hair.

Answer: True

Guiteau and Booth both had facial hair.

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

Answer: Booth

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

Answer: Oswald

Just a couple days later.

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

Answer: Guiteau

Source: Author Amatullah

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