Statistics for US Presidents Assassination Attempts

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
1865 - president shot in fords theatre, died the next day	Abraham Lincoln	97%
2011 - A letter was sent, laced with ricin.	Barack Obama	91%
2011 - The White House was hit with several rounds from a semi-automatic rifle, the biggest casualty was a window	Barack Obama	91%
1963 - President shot whilst riding in a car in Dallas	John F Kennedy	91%
1864 - A lone rifle shot missed the president's head by inches	Abraham Lincoln	88%
2009 - There was a plot to assassinate the President at the Alliance of Civilizations summit in Istanbul	Barack Obama	88%
1996 - The president's motorcade was diverted to avoid a bombing attempt	Bill Clinton	88%
1994 - a bad year for this president, three different plans were foiled when it came to assassination	Bill Clinton	88%
1933 - President shot at 5 times, all bullets missed but the Chicago Mayor was killed	Franklin D. Roosevelt	88%
1993 - A car bomb was located before the president went for a ride in Kuwait	George H W Bush	88%
2005 - The would-be assassin threw a grenade, lucky for all involved it didn't go off	George W Bush	88%
2001 - An accountant shot at the White House, while the president was inside	George W Bush	88%
1881 - president shot 4 months into his term, died several weeks later	James Garfield	88%
1960 - President-elect was targeted by a postal-worker who didn't like his religious beliefs	John F Kennedy	88%
1975 - this president has two assassination attempts in the same month	Gerald Ford	84%
1947 - A number of letter bombs were sent to the White House	Harry S Truman	84%
1950 - A violent attack by two supporters of Puerto Rican independence	Harry S Truman	84%
1979 - Secret service agents detained a man with a starter pistol, just before the President was about to give a speech	Jimmy Carter	84%
1974 - involved attempting to hijack a place, so it could be flown into the White House	Richard Nixon	84%
1972 - The assassin was put-off by the strong security around the president	Richard Nixon	84%
1981 - President was shot by a Jodie Foster fan	Ronald Reagan	84%
1861 - Plan to assassinate president on the way to his inauguration	Abraham Lincoln	81%
1928 - An Argentinian assassination attempt was foiled on this president-elect	Herbert Hoover	81%
1901 - President was shot whilst visiting the Pan-American Exposition	William McKinley	81%
1835 - the gun of would-be assassin Richard Lawrence misfired	Andrew Jackson	75%
1912 - President was shot at, whilst giving a speech in Milwaukee	Theodore Roosevelt	72%
1909 - President was nearly shot at a historic meeting between the USA and Mexico	William Taft	69%