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Famous Assassinations Quiz

Given the year and city, name the person who was assassinated.
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YearCityPerson
44 B.C.
Rome
1865
Washington, DC
1881
Washington, DC
1901
Buffalo
1914
Sarajevo
1935
Baton Rouge
1940
Mexico City
1948
New Delhi
1963
Dallas
YearCityPerson
1963
Dallas
1965
New York City
1968
Los Angeles
1968
Memphis
1979
Seoul
1980
New York City
1981
Cairo
1995
Tel Aviv
2007
Rawalpindi, Pakistan
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supersam
interesting, but morbid quiz.
2010-06-22
beccalinda
I found out recently that I share a birthday with John Wilkes Booth and Mark David Chapman. They're definitely two people you don't find when you look up famous people with your birthday (though I guess they're infamous rather than famous).
2010-07-27
triviamomma
AN ASSASSINATION IS: the targeted killing of a public figure, usually for political purposes. therefore lee Harvey Oswald does not apply. He was not a political figure. No one knew who he was before he was killed.
2010-09-25
High Fidelity
I'm pretty sure most people knew who Oswald was when he was killed.
2010-12-05
jromance
I can kind of see both points about Oswald. He was a not a political figure except in the sense that he killed a political figure. It is sort of like someone being famous simply by the fact that they are famous (no actual accomplishment except the fame itself.)
2011-01-23
mike34ism
Jromance just described most of Hollywood.
2011-03-08
MelkorDCLXVI
trotsky was assassinated in mexico city? interesting.
2011-04-24
justchuck
16/18 = 89%
2011-07-24
geographygal
I missed Rabin and Park Chung-hee (whoever the hell he was). At least I'm not alone in not knowing him. :D
2011-08-27
Hdny42
In the past assassination did not even necessarily mean the target had been killed. Abraham Lincoln was the primary target of John Wilkes Booth's plan to throw the Union into chaos with three simultaneous assassinations: he would kill the President at Ford's Theatre, while his accomplice Lewis Powell would try to kill Secretary of State William H. Seward, with associate George Atzerodt set to kill Vice President Andrew Johnson. Booth succeeded and Atzerodt lost his nerve (or regained his senses?) and did not make an attempt on Johnson. Powell however broke into Seward's home and attacked him with a knife, viciously slashing him. He was unable to kill Seward, but in the news and by associates it was said that Seward had been "assassinated," and had "survived." Today to say someone was assassinated means they were killed...it would seem oddly redundant to say, "so-in-so in was assassinated AND killed."
2011-12-01
electricpenguin32
Oh my God, I didn't even know John Lennon was dead xP
2012-01-30
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