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Can you name the cities in which the following murders/assasinations occurred? Enter a city in the box below Correctly named cities will show up in the table below Click any empty Murder(s) or City to answer for that location This game was contributed by Sporcle user: Booger Also try the Assassins Quiz You have 8 minutes to guess after you click the button below.	Search: Popular trivia games today 4 Letter Capitals 4627 TV Shows (U.S.) 3284 Broadway Opening Lines 3244 You Do Know Jack 1389 Lousy descriptions of Tom Hanks movies 1340 Same Last Name 1149 And more...
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Murder(s)	City	Year
Mary Ann Nichols, Annie Chapman, Catherine Eddowes		1888
Andrew Borden, Abby Borden		1892
William McKinley		1901
Archduke Franz Ferdinand		1914
Grigori Rasputin		1916
Saint Valentine's Day Massacre		1929
Engelbert Dollfuss		1934
Huey Long		1935
Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi		1948
Lee Harvey Oswald		1963
Martin Luther King, Jr.		1968
Sharon Tate		1969
Pierre Laporte		1970
11 Israeli Olympians		1972
Harvey Milk		1978

Murder(s)	City	Year
Park Chung-hee		1979
John Lennon		1980
Anwar Sadat		1981
Bachir Gemayel		1982
Benigno Aquino, Jr.		1983
Olof Palme		1986
Tiananmen Square (June Fourth Movement)		1989
Ron Goldman		1994
Yitzhak Rabin		1995
Tupac Shakur		1996
JonBenet Ramsey		1996
Gianni Versace		1997
Daniel Pearl		2002
Theo van Gogh		2004
Alexander Litvinenko		2006

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	JohnJF:	Sep 3rd, 2009 at 08:24 GMT	11 points
	Thanks to Chris Rock, I know where Tupac was murdered, but I don't know the location of the murder that triggered WWI.

	gracie:	Sep 3rd, 2009 at 08:36 GMT	4 points
	r3doubt, that's already been done the other way around: http://www.sporcle.com/games/assassins.php

	juviejay:	Sep 3rd, 2009 at 08:48 GMT	-2 points
	Surprised more people didn't get JonBenet. Maybe we're not as hopeless as you all think.

	ElDavo:	Sep 3rd, 2009 at 09:08 GMT	3 points
	juviejay: I think the JonBenet thing is because what they see as inconsequential information can be forgotten. It's similar to Franz Ferdinand. People remember that he was Austrian and his assassination basically started WW1, but they forget where exactly it happened.

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	debbiedoesnothin:	Sep 3rd, 2009 at 09:16 GMT	16 points
	Loved it. I don't think it's bad taste. Most of these are historical figures and/or crimes with historical significance.

	DonnyB:	Sep 3rd, 2009 at 09:17 GMT	7 points
	Very frustrating to know the state where the Borden murders took place, but not be able to come up with the pretty obscure town. Still fun though.

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	dbcint:	Sep 3rd, 2009 at 10:10 GMT	2 points
	Any chance of a fictional version? Some of us might have more luck with that

	geowiz85:	Sep 3rd, 2009 at 10:11 GMT	-4 points
	good quiz despite what tahnan says. got everyone id heard of (22) except daniel pearl

	Guinevere:	Sep 3rd, 2009 at 10:14 GMT	-4 points
	Does it say something bad about me that I got 26/30? I missed Gandhi because for some reason I typed Dehli instead of New Dehli and then gave up and tried to think of other Indian cities. Missed McKinley because I just couldn't remember where he'd been shot; I tried a bunch of Northeast cities but the closest I got was Albany. I confess I didn't really know who Gemayel and LaPorte were. Ghoulish good fun!

	indiekid:	Sep 3rd, 2009 at 10:48 GMT	14 points
	As a young teen, I used to deliver leaflets for a Pizza resteraunt on the street where Alexandre Litvinenko lived. If he'd have read the leaflets I shoved through his letterbox, he might've fancied a pepperoni that day instead of the posh cup of tea that killed him.

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	dav_uz:	Sep 3rd, 2009 at 11:58 GMT	2 points
	when oh when will i learn to spell things as easy as delhi and sarajevo - poor stuff.. Tough quiz though - I'm suprised 13% of people know who Olof Palme is let alone where he was killed!

	red_andy:	Sep 3rd, 2009 at 12:25 GMT	2 points
	@dav_uz: I recently read Bill Bryson's "Neither Here Nor There" in which he mentions the assassination of Palme. That's how I got it anyway!

	davebesag:	Sep 3rd, 2009 at 13:10 GMT	0 points
	I'd read about Palme's assassination years ago (although I did guess Oslo first before Stockholm!). The one I'm really concerned about is that only 4.7% got Dollfuss. The city is easy to guess if you know anything about the story.

	confused:	Sep 3rd, 2009 at 13:37 GMT	6 points
	@dav_uz: Sad to say I had no clue who Palme was, but with a name like Olof it's worth running through some Scandinavian cities just in case.

	zalagreensbury:	Sep 3rd, 2009 at 14:57 GMT	-2 points
	This quiz really solidified my theory that television has taught me mostly everything I know. I found out about the Lizzy Bourdon murders on the Travel Channel; Daniel Pearl from 'A might Heart';Livenenko from the news; Theo Van Gogh from 'Biochannel'. I'm like a sponge really lol.

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	D3nn1s:	Sep 3rd, 2009 at 15:22 GMT	1 point
	Awesome that Theo van Gogh is in here!

	BuggritHall:	Sep 3rd, 2009 at 15:28 GMT	-2 points
	Theo Gogh the murder that led to the normally relaxed Nederlanders to protest march in their millions. Of course being Dutch the march was a protesht againsht the abushe of his civil liberitesh.

	melissa:	Sep 3rd, 2009 at 16:28 GMT	2 points
	Clever idea - and good mix of geography & chronology. Recent movies ("Munich", "Milk") probably helped up the score on a couple of them - but I'm surprised more people didn't get Daniel Pearl, given the relatively recent "A Mighty Heart" (with Angelina Jolie giving one of her better performances, imo). Maybe it wasn't as widely seen, or maybe people who saw the movie forgot the setting?

	johnlk:	Sep 3rd, 2009 at 16:28 GMT	7 points
	"Petrograd" should be acceptable for Rasputin, as that's what the city was called in 1916.

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	RyanUR:	Sep 3rd, 2009 at 18:08 GMT	3 points
	Great mix of history and geography.

	Disclaimer:	Sep 3rd, 2009 at 19:49 GMT	2 points
	I'm not sure about the Tiananmen Square one. I mean it's certainly historically very important, but you only have to know where Tiananmen Square is. Maybe if it said something like "Pro-Democracy Demonstrators" or "Student Demonstrators" or something, but didn't name the Square. Might be too hard then though, I don't know...

	pbysr:	Sep 3rd, 2009 at 20:23 GMT	12 points
	Rasputin was not murdered. He happened to die of natural causes after being poisoned, shot, and dumped into an ice cold river.

	bsd987:	Sep 3rd, 2009 at 20:52 GMT	-2 points
	I know this is going to get a huge negative score, but I don't think it is sporcle's job to call the Tiananmen Square massacre a "murder." This one should go, especially considering it is the ONLY one on this list that mentions a state-led action. I feel that one is out of taste and shows a political bias against the Chinese governmental state.

	fatbeard:	Sep 3rd, 2009 at 21:34 GMT	2 points
	@Bryant, Fall River is a pretty obscure town. I live in Massachusetts right now and I've never heard of it. I imagine the other 344 smaller ones are also pretty obscure. When it comes to Mass, most people only know Boston, Springfield, and sometimes Worcester

	kidcanada:	Sep 3rd, 2009 at 21:40 GMT	4 points
	Pierre Laporte, a rare reference to Canadian domestic terrorism.

	bmo1616:	Sep 3rd, 2009 at 23:32 GMT	-1 points
	@fatbeard, well you really need to sharpen your knowledge of Mass., especially considering Fall River used to be one of the most populous cities in the country, and still has a population of almost 100,000.

	fatbeard:	Sep 4th, 2009 at 00:22 GMT	3 points
	@bryant, realistically, I don't really need to sharpen my knowledge. Cause the 8th largest city in a decently sized state doesn't matter that much. I'm not saying it's not a good city, I've never been there. It could be very nice. I'm just saying, it's not exactly a major city in the country.

	Dirty D:	Sep 4th, 2009 at 01:38 GMT	1 point
	@fatbeard, there's a difference between an "obscure town" and "not exactly a major city in the country." I live in Paxton, MA: population 5,000. Thats obscure. I wouldn't call a city with 100,000 people obscure at all. And most people do know of Worcester as well I wouldn't say people haven't heard of that either...not everyone is like you.

	Bearface:	Sep 4th, 2009 at 01:43 GMT	3 points
	What a great quiz, although, as usual, created for a mainly American audience (by Americans, I presume) which skews the questions so that the average American is more likely to know the answers than a person of another nationality. More than anything, though, I am slightly shocked that Benazir Bhutto is not on the list - surely one of the most politically consequential assassinations of the century?

	zalagreensbury:	Sep 4th, 2009 at 01:58 GMT	1 point
	Oh, and PR's so right, Rasputin had like 9 lives cause all of the attempts to murder him didn't even work he just drowned...anticlimatic but true.

	chikka2:	Sep 4th, 2009 at 02:27 GMT	1 point
	It's macabre that I did rather well on this one...@Fatbeard, I have a friend in Stockton and have visited Lynn, if that's any help...

	jimpoz:	Sep 4th, 2009 at 04:54 GMT	1 point
	Harvey Milk should also include George Moscone