Game 2, Round 8: Assassination Failures

This round is about people who tried to assassinate someone and either
killed the wrong person or nobody at all.

1. Name the man who shot Pope John Paul II.

	Mehmet Ali Agca

2. Frederick Zangara was so short he had to stand on a chair for his
   assassination attempt, which did not help his aim.  One of his shots
   killed Anton Cermak, the Mayor of Chicago, but who was he trying
   to kill?

Franklin Roosevelt (accept "FDR")

3. This man who led his country as prime minister and then president from
   1958 to 1969 survived about 30 assassination attempts during that
   period, mostly by people who wanted a certain colony to stay a colony.
   Name him.

	Charles de Gaulle
	(France granted Algeria independence in 1962)

4. Which American politician did Arthur Bremer shoot in 1972?  He was
   running for the presidency, but in the end did not gain his party's
   nomination.

	George Wallace

5. This man led a conspiracy to kill the King of England and many
   politicians as part of a planned revolution in 1605.

	Guy (or Guido) Fawkes

6. In July 1944 a conspiracy of army officers tried to kill Adolf Hitler
   with what type of weapon?

	bomb (in a briefcase)

7. Name either of the women who tried to shoot Gerald Ford in September 1975.

	Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, Sara Jane Moore

8. The White House was closed for renovations, so it was Blair House
   that Oscar Collazo and Griselio Torresola tried to shoot their way
   into and kill which president?

	Harry Truman

	(Torresola and a policeman killed each other in the shootout)

9. This man was shot in the chest by John Schrank while -- and because --
   he was campaigning for a third term of office as US President.
   The injury was so slight that he went on with his speech as planned.

	Theodore (or Teddy) Roosevelt

10. Name the man who shot Ronald Reagan.

	John Hinckley, Jr.

	(He wanted to impress Jodie Foster)