Famous Assassinations Flashcards
Where was Julius Caesar assassinated?
At the base of the Roman Curia in the Theatre of Pompey, just outside the Roman Senate
Who succeeded Indira Gandhi as Prime Minister of India?
Her oldest son, Rajiv Gandhi
(who was himself later assassinated)
Who assassinated Martin Luther King Jr. on 4 April 1968?
James Earl Ray
Who became president following John F. Kennedy’s assassination?
Lyndon B. Johnson. who was sworn in as president aboard Air Force One later that day
Who assassinated Malcolm X on 21 February 1965?
three members of the Nation of Islam (an organization that Malcolm X left in March 1964): Talmadge Hayer, Norman 3X Butler, and Thomas 15X Johnson
Who assassinated Mohandas Gandhi on 30 January 1948?
Nathuram Godse, a Hindu nationalist.
What Indian prime minister was assassinated on 31 October 1984?
Indira Gandhi
What had Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin signed shortly before his assassination on 4 November 1995?
the Oslo Accords, which aimed at resolving Israeli-Palestinian issues
Who assassinated Austro-Hungarian Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie?
Serbian ultra-nationalist Gavrilo Princip
Many people, including Malcolm X’s widow, have blamed what minister’s harsh rhetoric for inciting the assassination.
Louis Farrakhan
What boarding house owner was sentenced to death by hanging for her part in the conspiracy to assassinate Abraham Lincoln and became the first woman executed by the US federal government?
Mary Elizabeth Jenkins Surratt
Who assassinated King Henry IV of France?
François Ravaillac, a Catholic fanatic
From where did Lee Harvey Oswald assassinated U.S. President John F. Kennedy?
the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository
Which of King Henry IV’s advisors was wounded in the attack that assassinated the king?
Hercule, Duke of Montbazon
Why did Nathuram Godse, a Hindu nationalist. assassinate Mohandas Gandhi?
Godse criticized Gandhi’s accepting behavior toward Muslims and blamed Gandhi for the 1947 Partition of India.
Serbian ultra-nationalist Gavrilo Princip, who assassinated Austro-Hungarian Archduke Franz Ferdinand, was a member of what secret military society?
the Black Hand
What happened to Lee Harvey Oswald after John F. Kennedy’s assassination?
He was shot and killed by Jack Ruby while being transported by federal agents.
Who was assassinated on 28 June 1914 in Sarajevo?
Austro-Hungarian Archduke Franz Ferdinand (and his wife Sophie)
Who was the first politician to be assassinated by a bomb blast?
Rajiv Gandhi, in 1991
His assassin, Dhanu, an LTTE suicide bomber, bent down to touch his feet and pulled the trigger on the RDX laden belt she was wearing under her dress. Gandhi, along with 14 others, was killed.
Who was assassinated two weeks before the 2008 Pakistani election, on 27 December 2007, when she was shot while waving to her supporters through the sunroof of her car?
Benazir Bhutto
The assassination of John F. Kennedy was captured on tape on what film?
the Zapruder film
Who assassinated Robert F. Kennedy on 5 June 1968?
Sirhan Sirhan
Who assassinated U.S. President Abraham Lincoln?
John Wilkes Booth
Where was Robert F. Kennedy when he was shot?
leaving the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles through the hotel kitchen
In what year was Austro-Hungarian Archduke Franz Ferdinand assassinated?
1914 (on 28 June)
In what year were Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy both assassinated?
1968 (on 4 April and on 5 June)
On what date was Julius Caesar assassinated?
15 March (the Ides of March) 44 BCE
The assassination of Indira Gandhi came four months after what military raid on what temple?
Operation Blue Star, a military raid on the sacred Sikh Golden Temple in Amritsar, Punjab
Where was John F. Kennedy assassinated?
In Dallas, Texas, as his presidential motorcade rode through Dealey Plaza
Where was Mohandas Gandhi assassinated?
Gandhi was beginning his daily interfaith service at Birla House in New Delhi.
Following Robert F. Kennedy’s assassination, who received the Democratic nomination for 1968?
Hubert Humphrey, who lost to Richard Nixon
Who was assassinated on 21 February 1965 by three members of the National of Islam?
Muslim activist Malcolm X
Who else was severely wounded in the assassination of John F. Kennedy?
Texas Governor John Connolly
What Israeli Prime Minister was assassinated on 4 November 1995?
Yitzhak Rabin
Who ruled France after King Henry IV’s assassination?
his wife Marie de’ Medici, who served as regent for their son Louis XIII until he took power in 1617
Robert F. Kennedy was only the second sitting U.S. senator to be assassinated. Who was the first?
Huey Long in 1935
Where was King Henry IV of France assassinated?
on the Rue de la Ferronnerie when his coach stopped in traffic
Who was Prime Minister of India at the time of Mohandas Gandhi’s assassination?
Jawaharlal Nehru
Abraham Lincoln’s assassination was part of a wider plot that included failed attempts to kill what two individuals?
Vice President Andrew Johnson and Secretary of State William Seward
The Second Triumvirate defeated the assassins Brutus and Cassius at what battle?
Battle of Philippi
Who formed the Second Triumvirate after Julius Caesar’s assassinated?
Octavian (later Augustus), Marc Antony, and Marcus Lepidus
What did James Wilkes Booth shout prior to shooting Abraham Lincoln?
the Virginia state motto, sic semper tyrannis (“thus always to tyrants”)
Where was Abraham Lincoln shot and where did he die?
He was shot at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C. and died the next morning at Petersen House across the street
Who assassinated U.S. President John F. Kennedy?
Lee Harvey Oswald
Who investigated the assassination of John F. Kennedy, concluding that Oswald was the lone gunman?
the Warren Commission, led by Chief Justice Earl Warren
What name was given to the group of senators, led by Cassius and Brutus, that assassinated Julius Caesar?
Liberatores (“Liberators”)
The night of Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination, who gave a speech quoting the words of the Greek playwright Aeschylus about “pain which cannot forget” that “falls drop by drop upon the heart?”
Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy
Who assassinated Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin on 4 November 1995?
Yigal Amir, a right-wing radical
What play was Abraham Lincoln attending at Ford’s Theatre when he was assassinated?
Our American Cousin
Where was Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated?
the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee
Robert K. Kennedy was assassinated one day after he did what?
won the California presidential primary
(Following Kennedy’s death, it became policy for the Secret Service to provide protection to presidential candidates during the campaign.)
After 9 years in exile, Benazir Bhutto was granted amnesty by what president of Pakistan in 2007, although she was assassinated upon her return?
Pervez Musharraf
Why was Martin Luther King Jr. in Memphis at the time of his assassination?
to show support for a strike by African-American sanitation workers
Who led the senators that assassinated Julius Caesar?
Cassius and Brutus
(Gaius Cassius Longinus and Marcus Junius Brutus)
What was Austria-Hungary’s response to the assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
Austria-Hungary issued the July Ultimatum to Serbia, leading to the outbreak of World War I.
Where was Indira Gandhi at the time of her assassination?
In New Delhi, on her way to give an interview with British actor Peter Ustinov
Who was stabbed 23 times by the Liberatores on 15 March 44 BCE?
Julius Caesar
Who apprehended Nathuram Godse, Mohandas Gandhi’s assassin?
Herbert Reiner Jr., an American diplomat
Who was assassinated by being shot three times at point-blank range on 30 January 1948?
Mohandas Gandhi
Malcolm X was about to give a speech to what organization when he was assassinated (by being shot 21 times with a shotgun)?
Organization of Afro-American Unity
In what year was Abraham Lincoln assassinated?
1865
(on 14 April, 5 days after Lee’s surrender, ending the Civil War)
Who was assassinated on 4 May 1610 by François Ravaillac, a Catholic fanatic?
King Henry IV of France (the first French king from the Bourbon dynasty)
Who was assassinated on 4 April 1968 by James Earl Ray?
Martin Luther King Jr.
What title had Julius Caesar received shortly before his assassination?
dictator perpetuo
(“dictator in perpetuity”)
The assassination of Indira Gandhi resulted in what widespread rioting?
widespread anti-Sikh riots throughout India in which thousands of Sikhs were killed
In what year was U.S. President John F. Kennedy assassinated?
1963 (on 22 November)
Who assassinated Indira Gandhi on 31 October 1984?
two of her Sikh bodyguards: Satwant Singh and Beant Singh
Where was Malcolm X assassinated?
the Audubon Ballroom in Manhattan
What happened to John Wilkes Booth after he assassinated Abraham Lincoln?
After a two-week manhunt, he was found in a barn in northern Virginia, where he refused to surrender and was killed by Union soldier Boston Corbett.
(Samuel Mudd, a doctor, was controversially imprisoned for treating the broken leg that Booth suffered during his escape.)
