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1 Who was the Egyptian president shot while reviewing a military parade in 1981?
A Anwar Sadat (6th October 1981)
2 Which Russian Marxist revolutionary met his death while exiled in Mexico by having an ice pick embedded into his head?
A Leon Trotsky (20th August 1940)
3 Who was the Black Muslim leader assassinated in a Manhattan banquet room on February 21, 1965?
A Malcolm X (Malcolm Little)
4 How was the Conservative politician Airey Neave assassinated in 1979, by the Irish National Liberation Army?
A Car Bomb
5 Who was the right-wing political activist and co-author of the
A Ross McWhirter (his twin brother was Norris)
6 How was Bulgarian dissident writer Georgi Markov killed in a London street on September 11, 1978?
A Poison fired into his leg by an umbrella
7 Who was the critic of Vladimir Putin and former KGB officer, poisoned by ingesting the radioactive element polonium-210?
A Alexander Litvinenko
8 Olof Palme, the Swedish PM, was on the way home from where when shot in a central Stockholm street in 1986?
A From a cinema (the assassin remains unknown)
9 Which former prime minister of Pakistan was assassinated in December 2007 by a suicide bomber detonating himself next to her vehicle?
A Benazir Bhutto
10 Who was the Prime Minister of Israel assassinated in 1995?
A Yitzhak Rabin