wiki-illiam #109: q13

[dubdobdee]

13.

i: Which 15-year-old missed which target in Bologna?
ii: Who fired a bullet into which male cervid without obvious ill-effect?
iii: Which epileptic farmer failed with two pistol shots to kill which segregationist leader?
iv: Whose paper-knife failed, just, to puncture whose aorta at a book-signing at Blumstein's?
v: Whose wedding day was interrupted by an explosive bouquet thrown from a balcony by which librarian?
vi: Whose premature closing of his 16th anniversary speech saved him from whose time-bomb by 13 minutes?
vii: Which leader, together with a number of spacemen, survived a shooting by which army deserter?
viii: Which priest failed to kill which senior cleric with a bayonet at a famous Marian shrine?
ix: Who missed which target when attending one of Colley Cibber's plays?
x: who launched his Suzuki Swift at which monarch's bus, but missed?

Failed assassination attempts.



vi: is the Munich Bürgerbräukeller attack on Hitler, by Johann Georg Elser, on the 16th anniversary of the Beer Hall Putsch, googled by alextiefling
x: is Karst Tate, aiming at Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands, half-guessed by alextiefling, google-completed by braisedbywolves

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