Multiple choice

Directions: Select the most appropriate eponym or toponym as per the description/ definition given in the question.

An instrument for beheading by means of a heavy blade dropped between two grooved uprights

  1. Decapitate

  2. Guillotine

  3. Gascon

  4. Quisling

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B Correct answer
Explanation

Guillotine - On the name of its inventor J Guillotine; a device consisting of a sharp blade in a tall frame which was used in the past for killing criminals by cutting off their heads