{"id":6618,"date":"2022-12-29T22:39:28","date_gmt":"2022-12-29T16:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/?post_type=mcq&#038;p=6618"},"modified":"2022-12-29T22:45:31","modified_gmt":"2022-12-29T16:45:31","slug":"which-unusual-weapon-was-used-by-the-spanish-communist-ramon-mercador-to-assassinate-leon-trotsky-in-mexico-city-in-1940","status":"publish","type":"mcq","link":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/mcq\/which-unusual-weapon-was-used-by-the-spanish-communist-ramon-mercador-to-assassinate-leon-trotsky-in-mexico-city-in-1940\/","title":{"rendered":"Which unusual weapon was used by the Spanish communist Ramon Mercador to assassinate Leon Trotsky in Mexico City in 1940?"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1385,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","topic":[1413,1414],"subject":[19],"education_level":[],"class_list":["post-6618","mcq","type-mcq","status-publish","hentry","topic-assassinations-in-the-20th-century","topic-history-of-europe","subject-history"],"mcq_note":"<strong>Ramon Mercader, a Spanish communist and agent of the Soviet Union, used an ice axe to assassinate Leon Trotsky who is a Russian Marxist revolutionary, and theorist, in Mexico City in 1940.<\/strong>\r\n\r\nMercader disguised the ice axe as a gift and then used it to strike Trotsky in the head as he sat at his desk working. Trotsky was severely injured in the attack and died the following day. The assassination was carried out on the orders of Joseph Stalin, the leader of the Soviet Union, who saw Trotsky as a threat to his power.\r\n\r\nIn September 1966, which South African Prime Minister did a Mozambique messenger assassinate in the House of Assembly?","mcq_options":[{"right":"no","answer":"M1887"},{"right":"no","answer":"Sniper"},{"right":"no","answer":"AWM"},{"right":"yes","answer":"Ice axe"}],"multi_answers":"no","subject_terms":[{"id":19,"title":"History","slug":"history"}],"topic_terms":[{"id":1413,"title":"Assassinations in the 20th Century","slug":"assassinations-in-the-20th-century"},{"id":1414,"title":"History of Europe","slug":"history-of-europe"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mcq\/6618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mcq"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/mcq"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1385"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=6618"},{"taxonomy":"subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/subject?post=6618"},{"taxonomy":"education_level","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/education_level?post=6618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}