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1. What was Abraham Lincoln doing when he was assassinated in 1865?
 
Eating a meal
Making a speech
Reading a newspaper
Watching a play

He was watching Our American Cousin at Ford's Theatre, Washington DC
 
 
2. What was the name of the Belfast solicitor assassinated by loyalist paramilitaries on 12 February 1989?
 
Patrick Finnegan
Patrick Finucane
Patrick Flaherty
Patrick Flanagan
 
 
3. In 1980 John Lennon was shot and killed by Mark Chapman outside which New York apartment building?
 
The Dakota Building
The Dallas Building
The Delaware Building
The Denver Building
 
 
4. Which prominent politician was killed by a car bomb in London in 1979?
 
Airey Neave
Arthur Neave
Auberon Neave
Aubrey Neave
 
 
5. Where was US president James A Garfield shot and killed in 1881?
 
A baseball stadium
A railroad station
A restaurant
The White House

It was Sixth Street Station of the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad in Washington DC
 
 
6. In 1916 the 'Mad Monk' Grigori Rasputin was poisoned, shot four times and clubbed before being thrown into which river to drown?
 
Don
Neva
Ob
Volga
 
 
7. Humberto Delgado, who was murdered by secret police in 1965, had been a candidate for the presidency of which country?
 
Colombia
Peru
Portugal
Spain
 
 
8. Anna Lindh, who was stabbed while shopping in a department store in 2003, was the Foreign Minister of which country?
 
Austria
Belgium
Poland
Sweden
 
 
9. Following his assassination by Charlotte Corday in 1793, what disappeared from the house of French revolutionary Jean-Paul Marat?
 
His bathtub
His diary
His pistol
His writing-desk

Corday stabbed him in the bath
 
 
10. The July 20 Plot was an attempt to assassinate which World War Two leader in 1944?
 
Churchill
Hitler
Mussolini
Stalin
 
 
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