A CONCIDENCE?

Gap-fill exercise

Fill in all the gaps, then press "Check" to check your answers. Use the "Hint" button to get a free letter if an answer is giving you trouble. You can also click on the "[?]" button to get a clue. Note that you will lose points if you ask for hints or clues!

Abraham Lincoln (elect) President of the USA in 1860, John Fitzgerald Kennedy in 1960.

Lincoln had a secretary named Kennedy. JFK's secretary (call) Lincoln.

Both presidents (shoot) in the back of the head. Both were with their wives at the time.

Both (assassinate) on a Friday.

Lincoln's assassin, John Booth, and JFK's assassin, Lee Harvey Osvald, were both from the South and in their twenties.

Booth (shoot) Lincoln while he was sitting in a theatre and then (hide) in a warehouse.

JFK (shoot) from a warehouse, and Oswald (find) when he was hiding in a theatre.

Lincoln (succeed) by Andrew Johnson, who was born in 1808.

JFK (succeed) by Lyndon Johnson, who was born in 1908.

JFK was riding in a Lincoln car when he (shoot).