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1. During the French Revolution (1789-1799), a well-known member of the Jacobin Club was stabbed to death in his bathtub by Charlotte Corday, a member of a rival political faction. Who was this activist?
2. On December 8th, 1980, singer and composer John Lennon was returning to his residence when a man came out and shot Lennon five times, fatally wounding him. What was the name of the man who assassinated Lennon?
3. On June 28, 1914, Franz Ferdinand, the Archduke of Austria was assassinated by Gavrilo Princip, a member of Young Bosnia, a revolutionary youth group. In what city did this assassination take place?
4. Perhaps one of the best known assassinations was that of Julius Caesar. Caesar's death was planned by a group of senators who were fearful of him gaining too much power. The assassination took place when Caesar went to the Capitol to deliver a speech. The conspirators surrounded him and stabbed him to death. On what day did this take place?
5. Emperor Claudius was an able administrator, a great builder of public works, and oversaw the conquest of Britain. But he was poisoned by a woman named Agrippina. Who was this woman in relation to Claudius?
6. One of the most interesting characters in Russian history is Grigori Rasputin. Rasputin was a mystic who was supposedly psychic and was said by some to be able to heal people. Rasputin gained favor with the Tsar, and some nobles became fearful he was manipulating the Tsar. When a group of nobles attempted to assassinate him, they had a hard time. According to them, it took a variety of methods to finally kill Rasputin. What was the initial method they used?
7. On April 14, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln was attending a play at Ford's Theater. During the play, John Wilkes Booth, a well-known actor and Confederate sympathizer, snuck into Lincoln's box and shot him in the back of the head. What was the name of the play that Lincoln was watching when his assassination took place?
8. On November 22, 1963, while touring in an open car in Dallas, Texas, with state governor John Connally and their wives, Kennedy was struck and killed by a sniper's bullet, while Connally was wounded. Who did the Warren Commission charge as being the sole assassin?
9. Martin Luther King was assassinated on April 4, 1968, on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. Friends inside the motel room heard the shots and ran to the balcony to find King shot in the throat. He was pronounced dead at St. Joseph's Hospital at 7:05 p.m. The assassination led to a nationwide wave of riots in more than 60 cities. Who allegedly shot King?
10. Isoroku Yamamoto was the commander of the Imperial Japanese Navy for the first four years of World War II. He is generally regarded to be Japan's greatest naval strategist of the war. On the morning of April 18, despite urgings to cancel the trip for fear of ambush, Yamamoto's planes left. Shortly after, eighteen American planes took off from Guadalcanal. The two flights met and a fight ensued between the American planes and Yamamoto's escorts. Yamamoto's plane crashed into the jungle and his body was later discovered near it, still clutching his Samurai sword. Who was the U.S. admiral who authorized his planes to take out Yamamoto?
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