People trivia questions

2356 multiple-choice People trivia questions with four options and the answer.

This Russian dictator was given the name Grozniy by his compatriots as he was an evil person. The number of his marriages is unknown, but it is stated that they are at least five. He killed his son in a fit of rage.
He was known for his terrorist tactics and cruel methods of punishing those he found guilty, especially by impalement, which gave him the nickname Tepes, or The Impaler.
This Russian dictator established the USSR as a modern economic and military power, able to repel Hitlers armies in World War II. However his reign was marked by terror and the deaths of millions of real and presumed opponents of his policies.
He directed the systematic extermination of over 11 million people, mostly Jews, in a genocide now known as the Holocaust.
This person was expelled from the Socialist party on the grounds that he advocated Italys involvement in the Great War. Following the war, he organized the Italian Fascist Party.
Under the rule of this fascist dictator all political parties and labor unions were banned. Books were burned, and dissenters were tortured and executed.
He claimed that Democracy is the breeding ground of Communism. That is why he ended Chiles 150-years of democracy.
This Romanian leaders economic policies were a disaster. He was also repressive and corrupt. He and his wife Elena were executed in 1989.
The name of this Iraqi dictator means one who confronts. He saw himself as a social revolutionary and a modernizer, following the model of Nasser.
The Mafia was actually formed in Sicily in the Middle Ages as a secret society to resist the Turk and Norman invaders. Later, it spread to the United States and this was the first American city where it became influential.
There are many theories about the source and the translation of the word Mafia. However, the meaning of the name of the Italian Mafia, La Cosa Nostra, is not so controversial. Which of these translations is closest?
Al Capone was the Crime Boss in Chicago as the successor of Johnny Torrio. Although he committed many terrible crimes and violated many laws, he was convicted only of tax evasion and had to do 11 years in Alcatraz. He was released in 1939 due to his terrible disease. What was this disease?
In the Italian-American Mafia, the hierarchy is very strict. Capo di Tutti Capi means Boss of all Bosses. This is the highest possible position in the chain of command. Then who is Capo Crimini?
There were five dominant families in the American Mafia. The Bonanno family, the Colombo Family, the Gambino family, the Lucchese family and one more. Charles (Lucky) Luchiano was one of the Bosses of this powerful Mafia family.
This is one of the most famous crime fighters in the history of the American Mafia. He prosecuted many gangsters, such as Lucky Luciano, Gurrah Shapiro and Louis Lepke. The mafioso Dutch Shultz was killed by his peers, because he planned to knock off this gang buster.
Which U.S. President, nicknamed Old Hickory, was the target of an assassination attempt at the Capitol building in 1835 by a house painter named Richard Lawrence?
Which U.S. President, the first in the nations history to be assassinated, died at Peterson House across the street from the site of his shooting?
Which U.S. President, whose term was the second shortest in the nations history, died in 1881, two and a half months after he was shot at a train station in Washington, D.C.?
Which U.S. President, shot at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York, might have survived if doctors had used a new medical device on exhibit at the fair that could have helped them find the fatal bullet?
Which U.S. President, who had become President after the 1901 assassination of his predecessor, survived an assassination attempt more than three years after he left office?
Which four-term Presidents motorcade was shot at a month before he first took office, resulting in the death of the mayor of Chicago?
Which President, who resided in Blair House during renovations to the White House, commuted the death sentence of the man convicted of plotting to assassinate him?
Which U.S. President, the first Massachusetts native to hold the office in more than 130 years, was targeted by a would-be suicide attacker before his inauguration?
Which controversial President was the target of an assassination plot that involved hijacking a commercial airliner and crashing it into the White House?
Which President, never elected to the office, was the target of two assassination attempts within three weeks of each other, both by women?
Which U.S. President, during whose adminstration a U.S. Embassy in the middle east was seized, was supposedly targeted by Mexican assassins in an attack that never took place?
Which U.S. President, shot by a man who wanted to impress a film actress, was not the original target of the assassination plan?
Which U.S. President was targeted for assassination by a foreign leader three months after he left office?
During the administration of which U.S. President, the last to be given lifetime Secret Service protection, were three attacks carried out against the White House?
Which U.S. President was the target of an assassination attempt during a state visit to the former Soviet republic of Georgia?