Historical Assassinations - Statistics

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Question	Answer	% Correct
Who was assassinated in Ford's Theater on 14th April 1865?	Abraham Lincoln	98%
The assassin Jack Ruby assassinated the assassin of which assassination victim?	John F. Kennedy	90%
In December 1980, Mark Chapman assassinated which musician in New York?	John Lennon	69%
In 1979, Lord Louis Mountbatten and Conservative MP Airey Neave were both assassinated in separate incidents by which terrorist organisation?	Irish Republican Army	64%
In 1901, which US President was assassinated by anarchist Leon Czolgosz?	William McKinley	64%
In 1978, Harvey Milk was assassinated, having served as the first openly gay elected official of which US State?	California	60%
In 1914, Gavrilo Princip assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand in which European city?	Sarajevo	60%
Which Egyptian president was killed at a military parade by Khalid Islambouli in 1981?	Anwar Sadat	52%
In June 1968, James Earl Ray was arrested in London's Heathrow Airport for the murder of which prominent US figure?	Martin Luther King Jr.	52%
In 1940, Leon Trotsky was assassinated in Mexico on Stalin's orders, using what unusual item?	Ice pick	50%
In January 2020, the United States assassinated Qasem Soleimani, a senior figure in which country's Revolutionary Guard Corps?	Iran	50%
In July 2022, which former Prime Minister of Japan was shot dead while campaigning in the city of Nara?	Shinzō Abe	50%
Which despotic Roman emperor was assassinated by his Praetorian guards in 41 AD?	Caligula	48%
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?	Archbishop of Canterbury	45%
In 1844, an armed mob shot dead Joseph Smith Jr., the founder of which religious movement?	Mormonism	45%
Boris Nemtsov, Anna Politokovskaya and Alexander Litvinenko are are people who have met sticky ends following their opposition to which world leader?	Vladimir Putin	45%
In November 1995, far-right Israeli ultranationalist Yigal Amir shot dead which Israeli Prime Minister?	Yitzhak Rabin	45%
In 1996, Tupac Shakur was shot and killed in which US city?	Las Vegas	43%
In 1986, international drug trafficker and DEA informant Barry Seal was killed in Baton Rouge on the orders of which notorious cartel?	Medellín Cartel	43%
"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?	Mark Antony	38%
Several members of which religious organisation assassinated Malcolm X in 1965?	Nation of Islam	33%
Which high-ranking Nazi leader was assassinated by Czech partisans in 1942 as part of Operation Anthropoid?	Reinhard Heydrich	33%
In September 1996, Mohammed Najibullah was assassinated by which terrorist group?	Taliban	31%
Thomas Sankara was killed in 1987 during a coup d'état in which African country?	Burkina Faso	29%
Who was the only British Prime Minister to have been assassinated in office?	Spencer Perceval	26%

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