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  • Question of

    The word ‘assassin’ is said to originate from the Order of Al-Hassasin, a High Medieval mercenary operation, based in which country?

    • Egypt
    • Persia/Iran
    • Syria
  • Question of

    What weapon ended the life of Leon Trotsky?

    • Flame-thrower
    • Garrotte
    • Ice-axe
  • Question of

    And what weapon was used in the infamous assassination of Bulgarian dissident, Georgi Markov, in London in 1978?

    • Serrated hat
    • Poison-firing Umbrella
    • Exploding box of chocolates
  • Question of

    Whose murder is thought to be the first at the hands of a suicidal assassin?

    • Indira Gandhi
    • Rajiv Gandhi
    • Benazir Bhutto
  • Question of

    How many of the four assassinated US presidents (Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley, and Kennedy) died from gunshot wounds?

    • Two
    • Three
    • Four
  • Question of

    What was the nationality of footballer Andrés Escobar who was killed on returning from the 1994 World Cup, having scored an owl-goal?

    • Argentine
    • Bolivian
    • Colombian
  • Question of

    The downing of an aeroplane carrying Juvénal Habyarimana and Cyprien Ntaryamira by unknown attackers using a surface-to-air missile, was the catalyst for an explosion of ethnic violence where?

    • Chad/Central African Republic
    • East Timor
    • Rwanda/Burundi
  • Question of

    Knights carrying out the orders of which king, slaughtered Archbishop Thomas Beckett in Canterbury Cathedral?

    • William II
    • Henry II
    • John
  • Question of

    The founder of which Christian denomination was shot dead by a masked mob as he awaited trial for treason in an Illinois prison?

    • Jehovah’s Witness
    • Mormons
    • Born Again Christians
  • Question of

    Fleeing assassins, which King of Scots ran down a sewage pipe from his palace? (Only to remember the tunnel mouth had been boarded up on his instructions, as he kept losing his tennis balls from his nearby court. Trapped in a dead end of his own making he was stabbed to death.)

    • David II
    • James I
    • James III

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