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Can you answer these questions about presidential assassinations and assassination attempts?
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How many US presidents have been assassinated whilst in office?
4
78% got this right
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Who was the first president to be assassinated, after being shot at the theatre?
Abraham
Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln
82% got this right
Lincoln was shot by John Wilkes Booth.
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Which president was assassinated in Dallas Texas?
JFK
John F Kennedy
John F. Kennedy
John Kennedy
Kennedy
89% got this right
Kennedy was shot by Lee Harvey Oswald, honestly.
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Which cartoon character shares it's name with the president shot on July 2nd, 1881?
Garfield
94% got this right
Garfield lingered on for 79 days before finally succumbing to infections from his wounds and unsterilised treatment.
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Who is the other president to have been assassinated whilst in office?
William McKinley
Andrew Johnson
John Quincy Adams
Ulysses S Grant
34% got this right
McKinley initially looked to be recovering, before succumbing to gangrene around his wounds.
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The Secret Service was approved to be established on the same day as the assassination of which president?
Lincoln
Garfield
Kennedy
McKinley
18% got this right
Quite the coincidence.
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Which other president has been shot and wounded while in office?
Ronald Reagan
George HW Bush
Jimmy Carter
Lyndon Baines Johnson
46% got this right
John Hinckley Jr was supposedly trying to impress Jodie Foster.
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Which presidential candidate was shot and wounded while campaigning in 1912?
Theodore Roosevelt
Charles Evans Hughes
William Howard Taft
Woodrow Wilson
58% got this right
He went on to give an 84 minute speech before seeking medical attention.
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Which candidate was shot and killed in Los Angeles while campaigning for the Democratic nomination in 1968?
Bobby Kennedy
Kennedy
RFK
Robert F Kennedy
Robert Kennedy
72% got this right
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