Statistics for Abraham Lincoln Assassination

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Name of the assassin	John Wilkes Booth	95%
Name of Theater he was attending	Ford's Theatre	77%
Name of future USA president who declined the invitation to go to theatre (and was always said to regret it)	Ulysses S. Grant	67%
Vice-president who succeeded Lincoln	Andrew Johnson	66%
Christian holiday he was assassinated on	Good Friday	56%
Name of Play Lincoln was attending	Our American Cousin	54%
Town where Lincoln was buried	Springfield	51%
Mode of transport that took Lincoln's body from Washington to his burial place	Train	48%
"Now he belongs to the ___"	ages	44%
Name of son who attended Lincoln's death bed	Robert Lincoln	41%
Doctor who splinted the assassins leg whilst they were on the run	Samuel A Mudd	36%
Name of the Lincoln's male guest at the theatre	Major Henry Rathbone	30%
Name of boarding house owner, hung as a conspirator	Mary Surratt	30%
Area of the White House where Lincoln lay in state	East Room	28%
Type of gun used to shoot Lincoln	Derringer	25%
Name of man who went on the run with the assassin	David Herold	21%
Hung conspirator, who attempted to murder William Seward	Lewis Powell	21%
Name of the Lincoln's female guest at the theatre	Clara Harris	20%
Name of the farm where the assassin was shot	Garrett's	13%
Name of the house Lincoln was moved to	Petersen House	13%
Name of cemetery where Lincoln is buried	Oak Ridge	11%
Bodyguard who advised Lincoln not to attend	William H Crook	11%
Actress who craddled the wounded president's head	Laura Keane	10%