- 1. Assassination is the deliberate act of killing a prominent figure, such as a political leader, public figure, or celebrity, usually for political or ideological reasons. It is a cowardly and morally reprehensible act that is often carried out by individuals or groups seeking to achieve a specific agenda or to instill fear among the populace. The consequences of assassination are far-reaching, leading to instability, unrest, and disruption of the social order. Historically, assassinations have played a significant role in shaping the course of nations and impacting the course of history.
Who was assassinated on November 22, 1963?
A) John F. Kennedy
B) Abraham Lincoln
C) Martin Luther King Jr.
D) Teddy Roosevelt
- 2. Which ancient Roman general and dictator was famously assassinated on the Ides of March?
A) Pompey
B) Augustus
C) Nero
D) Julius Caesar
- 3. Who assassinated Mahatma Gandhi in 1948?
A) Arun Jaitley
B) Indira Gandhi
C) Nathuram Godse
D) Jawaharlal Nehru
- 4. Which US President was assassinated by anarchist Leon Czolgosz in 1901?
A) James Garfield
B) Benjamin Harrison
C) William McKinley
D) Theodore Roosevelt
- 5. Who was the first Prime Minister of India to be assassinated, in 1984?
A) Jawaharlal Nehru
B) Indira Gandhi
C) Rajiv Gandhi
D) Morarji Desai
- 6. Which Russian revolutionary and politician was assassinated in Mexico in 1940?
A) Joseph Stalin
B) Leon Trotsky
C) Nikita Khrushchev
D) Vladimir Lenin
- 7. Who was the Swedish Prime Minister who was assassinated in 1986?
A) Olof Palme
B) Carl Bildt
C) Stefan Löfven
D) Göran Persson
- 8. In what city was President Abraham Lincoln assassinated in 1865?
A) New York City
B) Boston
C) Philadelphia
D) Washington, D.C.
- 9. In what year was Anwar Sadat, the President of Egypt, assassinated?
A) 1991
B) 2001
C) 1967
D) 1981
- 10. Which American rapper was shot and killed in a drive-by shooting in 1996?
A) Tupac Shakur
B) The Notorious B.I.G.
C) Ice Cube
D) Snoop Dogg
- 11. Who assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, triggering the start of World War I?
A) Vladimir Lenin
B) Gavrilo Princip
C) Adolf Hitler
D) Benito Mussolini
- 12. Which Egyptian leader was killed by the Islamic Jihad in 1981?
A) Anwar Sadat
B) Hosni Mubarak
C) Abdel Fattah el-Sisi
D) Gamal Abdel Nasser
- 13. Who was assassinated while giving a speech at the Audubon Ballroom in New York City in 1965?
A) Malcolm X
B) Jesse Jackson
C) Medgar Evers
D) Martin Luther King Jr.
- 14. Which British Prime Minister was nearly assassinated by the IRA in 1984?
A) Tony Blair
B) Margaret Thatcher
C) Winston Churchill
D) David Cameron
- 15. Who was the Prime Minister of Israel assassinated in 1995?
A) Ehud Barak
B) Yitzhak Rabin
C) Benjamin Netanyahu
D) Ariel Sharon
- 16. Which US civil rights leader was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1968?
A) Rosa Parks
B) Martin Luther King Jr.
C) Jesse Jackson
D) Malcolm X
- 17. Which US President survived two assassination attempts in 1912 and 1933?
A) Calvin Coolidge
B) Woodrow Wilson
C) Herbert Hoover
D) Franklin D. Roosevelt
- 18. Who was assassinated by Mark David Chapman in front of his apartment building in New York City?
A) George Harrison
B) Paul McCartney
C) Ringo Starr
D) John Lennon
- 19. Which US President was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth in 1865?
A) Thomas Jefferson
B) George Washington
C) Andrew Jackson
D) Abraham Lincoln
- 20. Who was the President of Pakistan who was assassinated in 2007?
A) Asif Ali Zardari
B) Nawaz Sharif
C) Benazir Bhutto
D) Pervez Musharraf
- 21. Which US President survived an assassination attempt by John Hinckley Jr. in 1981?
A) George H. W. Bush
B) Jimmy Carter
C) Bill Clinton
D) Ronald Reagan
- 22. In which country was Prime Minister Indira Gandhi assassinated in 1984?
A) Bangladesh
B) Pakistan
C) Sri Lanka
D) India
- 23. Who assassinated Robert F. Kennedy in 1968?
A) John Wilkes Booth
B) Sirhan Sirhan
C) James Earl Ray
D) Lee Harvey Oswald
- 24. Which African leader was assassinated in 1961 for his anti-colonial views?
A) Julius Nyerere
B) Kwame Nkrumah
C) Nelson Mandela
D) Patrice Lumumba
- 25. In what year was Abraham Lincoln assassinated?
A) 1876
B) 1899
C) 1865
D) 1907
- 26. Who was the Roman emperor assassinated by his own guards in 41 AD?
A) Claudius
B) Nero
C) Tiberius
D) Caligula
- 27. Which French revolutionary leader was assassinated in a bathtub in 1793?
A) Jean-Paul Marat
B) Maximilien Robespierre
C) Marie Antoinette
D) Louis XVI
- 28. Who was the only US President to resign from office following the Watergate scandal?
A) Lyndon B. Johnson
B) Gerald Ford
C) Jimmy Carter
D) Richard Nixon
- 29. Which Roman Emperor was assassinated by the Praetorian Guard in 192 AD?
A) Commodus
B) Diocletian
C) Septimius Severus
D) Marcus Aurelius
- 30. Who was the South Korean President assassinated by the director of the KCIA in 1979?
A) Kim Dae-jung
B) Lee Myung-bak
C) Roh Moo-hyun
D) Park Chung-hee
- 31. Which organization was responsible for the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria?
A) Yakuza
B) Black Hand
C) Mafia
D) KGB
- 32. Who was the Russian mystic and self-proclaimed holy man who survived several assassination attempts before being killed by a group of nobles?
A) Vladimir Lenin
B) Joseph Stalin
C) Grigori Rasputin
D) Leon Trotsky
- 33. Which Russian Czar was assassinated along with his family by the Bolsheviks in 1918?
A) Peter the Great
B) Ivan the Terrible
C) Alexander II
D) Nicholas II
- 34. Who assassinated Julius Caesar?
A) Mark Antony
B) Caesar Augustus
C) Cleopatra
D) Brutus
- 35. What do the initials 'CIA' stand for in relation to covert operations?
A) Central Intelligence Agency
B) Covert International Agents
C) Current Information Agency
D) Clandestine Information Association
- 36. What was the nationality of the man who assassinated John Lennon?
A) Japanese
B) Russian
C) British
D) American
- 37. Which dictator was assassinated on Christmas Day in 1989?
A) Nicolae Ceausescu
B) Muammar Gaddafi
C) Augusto Pinochet
D) Fidel Castro
- 38. Who was the US President when President Kennedy was assassinated in 1963?
A) Lyndon B. Johnson
B) Ronald Reagan
C) Richard Nixon
D) Dwight D. Eisenhower
- 39. Which political figure was assassinated by two Polish nationalist students in 1913?
A) Winston Churchill
B) Archduke Franz Ferdinand
C) Kaiser Wilhelm II
D) Tsar Nicholas II
- 40. In what country was former Chilean President Orlando Letelier assassinated in a car bombing in 1976?
A) United States
B) Spain
C) Chile
D) Argentina
- 41. Which American civil rights leader was assassinated in 1940 by a prominent white supremacist?
A) Medgar Evers
B) Walter Francis White
C) Jesse Jackson
D) Fred Hampton
- 42. Who was the first US President to have a serious assassination attempt against him?
A) Thomas Jefferson
B) Abraham Lincoln
C) Theodore Roosevelt
D) Andrew Jackson
- 43. In what European city was Archduke Franz Ferdinand assassinated in 1914?
A) Prague
B) Vienna
C) Budapest
D) Sarajevo
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