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1. Who assassinated Abraham Lincoln in 1865?
 
John Wilkes Booth
John Wilkinson Booth
John Wilson Booth
John Wilton Booth
 
 
2. Which conflict was triggered by the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria?
 
The Crimean War
The Boer War
World War One
The Spanish Civil War

He was shot by Gavrilo Princip in Sarajevo on 28 June 1914
 
 
3. In which city was John F Kennedy assassinated in 1963?
 
Dallas
Denver
New York
Washington DC
 
 
4. Which Russian politician was assassinated by Ramon Mercader in 1940?
 
Nikolai Bhukarin
Vladimir Lenin
Joseph Stalin
Leon Trotsky

The killing took place in Mexico City. The murder weapon was an ice-axe
 
 
5. The Bulgarian journalist Georgi Markov was assassinated in London in 1978 by a poisoned what?
 
Doughnut
Pen
Sausage roll
Umbrella
 
 
6. Which Roman emperor was assassinated on 15 March, 44 BC?
 
Caligula
Julius Caesar
Nero
Tiberius

It happened on the fateful Ides of March
 
 
7. The Prime Minister of which country was assassinated in 1986?
 
Denmark
Finland
Norway
Sweden

Olof Palme was fatally shot, and his wife wounded, as they were walking home from a Stockholm cinema
 
 
8. In which English cathedral was Thomas Beckett assassinated in 1170?
 
Canterbury
Durham
Salisbury
Winchester
 
 
9. Ross McWhirter, who was assassinated by the IRA in 1975, was co-author of which reference book?
 
Encyclopaedia Britannica
Guinness Book of Records
Oxford English Dictionary
Who's Who
 
 
10. In which country was Mahatma Gandhi assassinated in 1948?
 
Afghanistan
Egypt
India
Iran
 
 
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