Summer 2006: Week 3, Round 4
History: Assassinations
How important does one have to be before your death is considered an assassination as opposed to a
murder? Give the names of these people who have been assassinated:
1. Which black Muslim leader was assassinated while addressing a rally in New York City in 1965?
A: Malcolm X
2. Who was assassinated in New Delhi on January 20, 1948 by Natheram Jodre, a Hindu fanatic?
A: Mohandas Gandhi
3. Who was assassinated with an ice-pick in Mexico City in 1940?
A: Leon Trotsky
4. Which President was assassinated in Buffalo in 1901 during the World Exposition?
A: William McKinley
5. Who was the US Senator assassinated by Dr. Carl A. Weiss in Baton Rouge in September 1935?
A: Huey Long
6. What Egyptian leader was assassinated on October 6, 1981 by Islamic fundamentalists within his own army?
A: Anwar Sadat
7. What Canadian father of confederation was assassinated in 1868 by Irish extremists?
A: Thomas D'Arcy McGee
8. What Quebec Minister of Labour was assassinated by the FLQ in 1970?
A: Pierre Laporte
9. Who was the five times Prime Minister of Italy who was assassinated in 1978 after being kidnapped by the Red Brigades?
A: Aldo Moro
10. Who was assassinated in Russia in 1916 by a group of aristocrats during a midnight tea party to which they invited him?
A: Rasputin