Weird Ways to Meet Your Maker: Part 3

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1. "Duck" or should it be "eagle"? Either way, the Greek dramtist Aeschylus should have kept his head down. It is said that he died when he was hit on the head by an object dropped by an eagle. What was it? A rock A rabbit A piece of wood A tortoise

2. William Huskisson was a noted statesman and financier whose interest in rail transport cost him dear. Which locomotive was to be the death of him? Locomotion Puffing Billy The Rocket The Flying Scotsman

3. At least some may have died happy. In 1814, nine people drowned in a flood in London. What kind of liquid was involved? Beer Gin Whisky Irn-Bru

4. "Some people believe football is a matter of life and death. I am very disappointed with that attitude. I can assure you it is much, much more important than that", or so said the acclaimed Liverpool Football Club manager Bill Shankly. What, according to news reports, caused the deaths of an entire African football team? They were struck by lightning Their bus careered off the road They were eaten by crocodiles They were shot by a crazed home fan

5. In 1919, 21 people died in a US city after a tank of molasses collapsed sending a wave of the sticky, sweet stuff through the streets. In which city did it occur? Baltimore Denver Dayton Boston

6. Thomas Midgley Jr was a serial inventor and held over 100 patents. How, though was one of his inventions to be the death of him? Electrocuted while demonstrating his patented wireless electricity system He was overcome by fumes after sniffing Freon He accidentally choked on a pulley-operated bed He was poisoned after drinking tetraethyllead 'to prove it was safe'

7. When I was young my granny used to tuck me up in bed at night and say "goodnight Splash, sleep tight, don't let the bedbugs bite". Dan Andersson, a Swedish writer, probably wished he had the same kind of granny, for he was killed by bedbugs. How? Fell out of bed and broke his neck after being bitten by a bed bug Poisoned by cyanide gas used to kill the bugs Broke his leg while trying to kill a bed bug, contracted gangrene and died Mistook a powder used to kill bugs for alka-seltzer and poisoned himself taking a hangover cure

8. Ah the TV talkshow! Who can forget the many highlights, the funny stories, the scandalous secrets, the interviewee who died mid-interview ... That was the fate of Jerome Irving Rodale, but who was in the interviewer's chair that day? Jay Leno Dick Cavett David Letterman Tucker Carlson

9. Jeff Dailey should probably have listened better when his mother told him to go out and play in the fresh air. Instead he preferred to spend time on his computer. Which computer game was he playing when he died in 1981? Risk Dungeons and Dragons Donkey Kong Berzerk

10. Tennessee Williams was the hard-living, hard-drinking author of such memorable plays as "A Streetcar Named Desire" and "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof". What normally innocuous item caused his death? A toothpick A bottle cap A toothbrush A comb