Funerals Aren't Funny Trivia Quiz

Answer: Germany

Ohlsdorf Cemetery was created in 1877 as the largest non-military cemetery in the world with nine hundred sixty-six acres. The cemetery has twenty-five bus stops from the entrance to the exit and takes two-hundred and thirty gardeners to keep up the grounds.

Inside the cemetery there are six memorials to victims killed by the Nazi's. A porn star, prostitute, German chancellor and Nobel prize winner are among those buried in Ohlsdorf Cemetery.

Answer: Emperor

Qin Shi Huang of China was thirteen when he became emperor. Shortly after that, Qin started plans for his burial tomb. Seven hundred thousand workers built a twelve-thousand square foot tomb with a jade leaf garden surrounding it. His tomb had blue stones encrusted in pearls. A river of mercury surrounded the tomb. Five thousand terracotta soldiers were individually crafted to stand guard outside the tomb.

Emperor Huang died at the age of forty-nine.

Answer: South Dakota

The original Boot Hill was located in Kansas. Boot Hill in Deadwood, South Dakota was the burial place for Wild Bill Hickok. In 1876, Bill Hickok was murdered at a poker table by Jack McCall. Boot Hill was renamed Mount Moriah after the place where Abraham sacrificed a ram instead of his son Isaac in the book of Genesis.

Answer: Clothing

John Baptiste was a local grave digger in Utah who robbed fresh graves just for the clothing. The only reason this was discovered was because of a robber who had been buried without locating any family members. When the robber's brother came forward and asked for his brother's body to be dug up, everyone saw a naked corpse. John Baptiste was questioned because he was the local gravedigger.

When police went to his house, they discovered boxes of clothing from the deceased. When all was said and done, John Baptiste was arrested for defiling over three hundred corpses.

Answer: Robert E. Lee's wife

The land that is now Arlington National Cemetery was once owned by George Washington's great granddaughter and Robert E. Lee's wife, Mary. After Mary abandoned the house and lands during the Civil War, Union soldiers took over the land. Quartermaster General of the US Army, Montgomery Cunningham Meigs needed a new place to bury soldiers and chose Arlington Estate since it had been abandoned. Eventually, the government seized the property due to the Lee's failure to pay taxes.

In 1882, the Supreme Court returned Arlington Estate to the Lee family.

After seeing the amount of soldiers buried on the land, Robert E. Lee's son sold the land back to the government instead of having the bodies of dead soldiers removed from the land.

Answer: It was gold plated

When choosing a coffin for himself, Michael Jackson remembered James Brown's coffin and modeled his own coffin after it. Michael Jackson's coffin was 14 carat gold plated with blue velvet interior. The coffin was called The Promethean and would have cost upwards of $30,000.

Answer: Hands

The Tonga undertakers known as Nima Tupa were not allowed to touch anything with their hands for one-hundred days because they had touched royalty with those same hands. At one time, any Nima Tupa that prepared royalty for a funeral would have had their hands cut off to preserve the hands that touched royalty.

Answer: Ronald Reagan

Actor Ronald Reagan married actress Jane Wyman on January 26, 1940 at the Wee Kirk O' the Heather chapel at Forest Lawn in Glendale, California. Actor William Holden and his wife Brenda Marshall stood up with the couple. Forest Lawn has three chapels on the grounds.

Answer: False

False, after a Viking dies his body is buried in a boat-shaped coffin on land. If the Vikings burned their dead in a boat, the fire would not be hot enough to destroy the body and the boat.

Answer: Peace

Wadi-us-Salaam (Wadi-Al-Salaam) was created in the 600s in Najaf, Iraq. Shia Muslims requested to be buried in Wadi-us-Salaam. The first Shia Iman Ali Ibn Abi Talib is buried there.