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1. The assassination of John Kennedy was perhaps the most dramatic assassination of the twentieth century. By consensus, Lee Harvey Oswald was the perpetrator but this did not stop a long string of conspiracy theories about the event. Which of these was NOT accused of the crime?
2. Mehmet Ali Agca on May 13, 1981 attempted to assassinate which Pope?
3. Archduke Franz Ferdinand along with his wife Sophie were assassinated in Sarajevo in 1914. This is often cited as the trigger for a major conflict in Europe. What was the name of that conflict?
4. What links Robert Pickett, Mohamed Atta, and Vladimir Arutyunian?
5. Julius Caesar, if you remember your high school English class, was assassinated by a group of dissatisfied Romans. Who among these was NOT part of the conspiracy?
6. In 1975 two attempts were made on the life of President Gerald Ford. What were the names of these two would-be assassins?
7. Medgar Evers was a Field Representative for the NAACP in Mississippi. On June 12, 1963 he was killed in his driveway with a vintage World War I rifle. Who was convicted of his assassination?
8. Stalin was the 'man of steel'. Historians and researchers vary in their estimates of deaths under Stalin's various purges but three million may be a conservative figure. Many were direct executions; others were by abuse and starvation in various gulags. In one instance he sent his assassins to Mexico to dispose of what political enemy?
9. Indira Gandhi was assassinated in 1984. How was she killed?
10. Carl Austin Weiss was born the son of a doctor in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He was the valedictorian of his high school and earned a BA from the Louisiana State University. He then studied medicine and served internships in Vienna, Austria and Bellevue in New York City. He returned to Louisiana where he opened a practice with his father and married the daughter of a prominent judge. On September 12, 1935 he assassinated what political figure?
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