The Last Few Moments

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1. Wyndham Lewis curtly responded "Mind your own business" to his nurse just before he died. What question had she asked him? If he had made his will If his bowels had moved that day If he was religious If he had ever married

2. General William Erskine's last few words were, "Now why did I do that?" What happened next? He shot the king He jumped out a window He cut off his nose to spite his face He fired a musket at the queen

3. On his death bed, which of Britain's kings is said to have retorted "Bugger Bognor!" when his doctor suggested he should have a holiday at Bognor when he was well again? George VI George V George IV George III

4. What was the name of the camp at which Saddam Hussein was hanged on 30 December, 2006? Camp Justice Camp Jihad Camp Revenge Camp Euphrates

5. When asked by his priest to turn away from Satan, which famous philosopher and author of "Candide" responded with "Now, now, my good man, this is no time to be making enemies"? Voltaire Locke Rousseau Montesquieu

6. When Ramon Narvaez was dying, his priest asked him if he had forgiven his many enemies. What did he answer? I have none. Everybody loves me Are you here to assassinate me? Off with his head! I don't have to. I have had them shot

7. Which great English poet, who penned "The Rape of the Lock", remarked laconically "Well here I am, dying of a hundred symptoms" just before he died in 1744? William Wordsworth Samuel Taylor Coleridge William Shakespeare Alexander Pope

8. When American criminal James W. Rodgers was asked if he had had any last requests before his execution by firing squad, what did he answer? Why yes - blanks Why yes - shoot yourself Why yes - a poor aim Why yes - a bulletproof vest

9. "Go on, get out - last words are for fools who haven't said enough". These were the polite last words to his housekeeper by which courteous author of the "The Communist Manifesto"? Karl Marx Vladimir Lenin Friedrich Engels Max Weber

10. This one is a classic: Just before this great English stage and film actor died, his nurse accidentally spilt water on him when holding a cup to his lips. He said "This isn't Hamlet you know, it's not meant to go into the bloody ear". Who was he? John Cleese Geoffrey Whitehead Rowan Atkinson Laurence Olivier