Historical Assassinations

Who was assassinated in Ford's Theater on 14th April 1865?

In 1940, Leon Trotsky was assassinated in Mexico on Stalin's orders, using what unusual item?

The assassin Jack Ruby assassinated the assassin of which assassination victim?

Who was the only British Prime Minister to have been assassinated in office?

Which high-ranking Nazi leader was assassinated by Czech partisans in 1942 as part of Operation Anthropoid?

Which Egyptian president was killed at a military parade by Khalid Islambouli in 1981?

In January 2020, the United States assassinated Qasem Soleimani, a senior figure in which country's Revolutionary Guard Corps?

In 1986, international drug trafficker and DEA informant Barry Seal was killed in Baton Rouge on the orders of which notorious cartel?

In December 1980, Mark Chapman assassinated which musician in New York?

In 1170, Thomas à Becket was assassinated, allegedly on the orders of Henry II of England. What religious position did Thomas à Becket hold at the time of his death?

In November 1995, far-right Israeli ultranationalist Yigal Amir shot dead which Israeli Prime Minister?

In July 2022, which former Prime Minister of Japan was shot dead while campaigning in the city of Nara?

Several members of which religious organisation assassinated Malcolm X in 1965?

In 1978, Harvey Milk was assassinated, having served as the first openly gay elected official of which US State?

In September 1996, Mohammed Najibullah was assassinated by which terrorist group?

Which despotic Roman emperor was assassinated by his Praetorian guards in 41 AD?

In 1996, Tupac Shakur was shot and killed in which US city?

Boris Nemtsov, Anna Politokovskaya and Alexander Litvinenko are are people who have met sticky ends following their opposition to which world leader?

In 1979, Lord Louis Mountbatten and Conservative MP Airey Neave were both assassinated in separate incidents by which terrorist organisation?

In June 1968, James Earl Ray was arrested in London's Heathrow Airport for the murder of which prominent US figure?

In 1844, an armed mob shot dead Joseph Smith Jr., the founder of which religious movement?

In 1914, Gavrilo Princip assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand in which European city?

In 1901, which US President was assassinated by anarchist Leon Czolgosz?

Thomas Sankara was killed in 1987 during a coup d'état in which African country?

"Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him." These lines, written by Shakespeare, are said by which Roman politician following the assassination of Julius Caesar?