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Assassinations
You Gotta Know These Assassinations
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Date Julius Caesar was assassinated (Ides of March) | March 15, 44 BC |
| Roman statesman stabbed 23 times by the Liberatores | Julius Caesar |
| Leaders of the senators who assassinated Caesar | Gaius Cassius Longinus and Marcus Junius Brutus |
| Location where Caesar died | Base of the Roman Curia in the Theater of Pompey |
| Caesar's title that many senators believed would end the Roman Republic | Dictator perpetuo ("dictator in perpetuity") |
| Members of the Second Triumvirate formed after Caesar's death | Octavian (Augustus), Marc Antony, and Marcus Lepidus |
| Battle where Brutus and Cassius were defeated | Battle of Philippi |
| Catholic fanatic who stabbed Henry IV | François Ravaillac |
| Direction Henry IV was given in visions about Huguenots | Convince Henry to convert Huguenots to Catholicism |
| Street where Henry IV was stabbed when his coach stopped in traffic | Rue de la Ferronnerie |
| First French king from the Bourbon Dynasty | King Henry IV |
| Henry IV's wife who served as regent for their son Louis XIII | Marie de’ Medici |
| Person who shot Abraham Lincoln | John Wilkes Booth |
| Play Lincoln was watching when he was shot | Our American Cousin |
| Location where Lincoln died the next morning | Petersen House |
| Failed attempts were also planned against these two officials | Vice President Andrew Johnson and Secretary of State William Seward |
| Virginia state motto shouted by Booth | Sic semper tyrannis ("thus always to tyrants") |
| Union soldier who killed Booth in a barn | Boston Corbett |
| Doctor imprisoned for treating Booth's broken leg | Samuel Mudd |
| Location of Franz Ferdinand's assassination | Sarajevo |
| Serbian ultra-nationalist assassin of Franz Ferdinand | Gavrilo Princip |
| Secret military society Gavrilo Princip belonged to | Black Hand |
| Document issued by Austria-Hungary in response to the assassination, leading to WWI | July Ultimatum |
| Hindu nationalist who shot Gandhi | Nathuram Godse |
| Location of the shooting at Birla House in New Delhi | Just as Gandhi was beginning his daily interfaith service |
| American diplomat who apprehended Godse | Herbert Reiner Jr. |
| Prime Minister who reported Gandhi's death to the nation via radio | Jawaharlal Nehru |
| Person who shot John F. Kennedy | Lee Harvey Oswald |
| Location Oswald targeted the motorcade from | Sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository |
| Location the motorcade was riding through in Dallas | Dealey Plaza |
| Texas Governor severely injured in the shooting | John Connolly |
| Film that captured the Kennedy assassination on tape | Zapruder film |
| Person sworn in as president aboard Air Force One | Lyndon B. Johnson |
| Bar owner who shot and killed Lee Harvey Oswald | Jack Ruby |
| Commission that investigated the Kennedy assassination | Warren Commission |
| Location of Malcolm X's assassination | Audubon Ballroom in Manhattan |
| Assassins who were members of the Nation of Islam | Talmadge Hayer, Norman 3X Butler, and Thomas 15X Johnson |
| Organization Malcolm X was about to give a speech to | Organization of Afro-American Unity |
| Number of times Malcolm X was shot with a shotgun | 21 times |
| Person blamed for inciting the assassination with harsh rhetoric | Louis Farrakhan |
| Location of MLK Jr.'s assassination | A balcony at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee |
| Person who killed Martin Luther King Jr. | James Earl Ray |
| Strike MLK Jr. was in Memphis to support | African-American sanitation workers strike |
| Democratic presidential candidate who gave a notable speech the night of King's death | Robert F. Kennedy |
| Greek playwright quoted by Robert F. Kennedy in his speech | Aeschylus |
| Person who shot Robert F. Kennedy | Sirhan Sirhan |
| Location where RFK was shot while leaving the Ambassador Hotel | Through the hotel kitchen |
| Policy implemented after RFK's death | Secret Service protection for presidential candidates |
| Democratic nomination for 1968 election went to | Hubert Humphrey |
| Location of Indira Gandhi's assassination | New Delhi |
| Sikh bodyguards who assassinated Indira Gandhi | Satwant Singh and Beant Singh |
| Military raid four months prior to the murder on the sacred Sikh Golden Temple | Operation Blue Star |
| Person Indira Gandhi was on her way to interview when she was killed | British actor Peter Ustinov |
| Indira Gandhi’s successor as Prime Minister of India | Rajiv Gandhi (her oldest son) |
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