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A quiz for crime fans.

Assassins: Answers

Of course, assassinating – or attempting to assassinate – a public figure may not make you famous. Some of these names were pretty obscure.

Here are the assassins or would-be assassins matched with their famous targets.

AssassinTarget
  1. Lucius Septimus
  2. Khalid Islambouli
  3. Patrick J Whelan
  4. John Wilkes Booth
  5. 'Squeaky' Fromme
  6. Charlotte Corday
  7. Guido Fawkes
  8. Ramón Mercader
  9. Leon Czolgosz
  10. Norman 3X Butler
  1. Pompey the Great
  2. Anwar Sadat
  3. Thomas D'Arcy McGee (Canadian Founding Father)
  4. Abraham Lincoln
  5. Gerald Ford
  6. Jean-Paul Marat
  7. James VI and I
  8. Leon Trotsky
  9. William McKinley (US president)
  10. Malcolm X

If you knew all these, you probably have a morbid interest in assassination, and should be on somebody's Watch List. Cool off by watching some Stephen Sondheim.

A man in Georgian clothing with a bag of money stands in front of the gallows.
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