Way to Go! - The Weirdest Deaths in Movies Quiz

Answer: Jurassic Park

This was a weird death, even in the context of 'Jurassic Park', Steven Spielberg's 1993 sci-fi blockbuster about a theme park where actual dinosaurs, generated from preserved DNA, went on the rampage when things went wrong. The victim was the lawyer, Donald Gennaro (played by Martin Ferrero), who had fled into an outdoor toilet when the T-Rex was on the loose.

When the walls of the facility fell down, Gennaro was left sitting on the can, right in front of the monster. Since this was a lawyer, a few cheers may have been mixed in with the screams of the audience as the jaws descended.

Answer: John Hurt

British actor John Hurt wouldn't have known it at the time, but he had been given one of the most memorable death scenes in cinematic history when he starred in Ridley Scott's 'Alien' (1979), a Sci-Fi about a spaceship crew who had to deal with a deadly stowaway creature on-board. Hurt would neither have dreamed that he'd play the scene all over again as a parody in Mel Brooks' 'Spaceballs' (1987), where the newborn alien started performing a song and dance routine (itself a parody of a famous 'Bugs Bunny' cartoon that featured a singing frog: 'Hello, my Baby, hello, my Honey, hello, my Ragtime Gal').

Answer: Dropped into an industrial chimney stack from a helicopter

They say that when you die you see a long dark tunnel, so Blofeld must have experienced this twice. In a scene more befitting a parody, James Bond had collected Blofeld and his wheelchair on the landing skid of a helicopter and gave him a ride before dropping him down the mouth of a rather tall chimney stack.

This occurred as the opening sequence in 1981's 'For Your Eyes Only', the twelfth film in the official 'Bond' franchise, which was about Bond's attempt to recover an encryption device and prevent it from falling into enemy hands.

Whilst the Blofeld character did show up again in 1983's 'Never Say Never Again', that movie was not part of the EON Productions franchise, so his appearance doesn't count as a resurrection.

Answer: Shattered into pieces after being snap-frozen

In 1993's 'Demolition Man', Wesley Snipes played Simon Phoenix, a criminal who resumed his murderous ways after being thawed from a cryogenic prison and escaping into a 21st century world where violence was unknown. John Spartan (Sylvester Stallone), a 20th century cop was also revived in order to catch the criminal all over again, and he eventually got his man with the help of some cryogenic fluid and a well-placed kick...certainly not the standard way of making a bust.

Answer: Raiders of the Lost Ark

All Hell (or Heaven?) broke loose when the evil Nazis finally had a chance to open the fabled Ark of the Covenant in 'Raiders of the Lost Ark', a 1981 adventure movie about the race between a daring archaeologist (Ford) and pre-WWII Nazis to find the legendary artifact in which the Ten Commandments had once been stored.

The heroes were spared by averting their eyes, but the villains suffered the wrath of some divine apparitions, and one of them (the Nazi Arnold Toth, played by Ronald Lacey) dissolved most memorably.

Answer: Decapitated by a rabbit

Terry Gilliam played the unfortunate Bors in 'Monty Python and the Holy Grail', a send-up of all things relating to the Arthurian legend and the quest for the Grail. Bors was ordered by King Arthur to dispatch a seemingly innocuous bunny at the mouth of the Cave of Caerbannog.

However, as Tim the Enchanter had warned in vain, the rabbit was a killer, capable of leaping prodigiously and gnawing through skin and bone. After Bors lost his head, Arthur led his knights into battle, but the rabbit took out another two men before Arthur called for a withdrawal: 'Run away! Run away!' The killer rabbit was finally destroyed by the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch.

Answer: Dr. Strangelove

Stanley Kubrick's 1964 satirical masterpiece 'Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb' was about the chaos that ensued when a renegade US general (Jack D. Ripper) set the wheels in motion to launch a nuclear attack on the Soviet Union, and the US Government tried to stop it from happening. Slim Pickens was given a role which parodied his previous calling as a cowboy in Westerns, and his performance, which included a memorable ride on a nuclear bomb headed towards its Soviet target, helped to resurrect his film career. Peter Sellers, who played several parts in the movie, had also been cast to play the Major, but a sprained ankle forced him to relinquish the role.

Answer: Shark Attack 3: Megalodon

Any B-grade movie about a gigantic prehistoric shark which is hellbent on eating everything in sight is bound to need some spectacular death scenes to keep the audience interested. Such was the case with 'Shark Attack 3: Megalodon', a 2002 made-for-video movie where the big fishy in question (along with its babies) was doing its thing off the coast of Mexico.

There were a number of weird death scenes in this film, including a boat and its occupant being swallowed whole, but first prize had to go to Mr. Tolley (played by Harry Anachkin), the head of a communications company, who somehow was unable to avoid steering his jet-ski away from the open mouth of the giant monster.

Answer: He was inflated with gas and burst like a balloon.

Dr. Kananga's alter ego in this movie was called Mr. Big, which was truly appropriate, given the character's demise. The first 'Bond' film to star Roger Moore as Agent 007, 'Live and Let Die' was about Bond's immersion into a world of gangland crime, gambling and voodoo, as he tried to stop an evil Caribbean dictator from dominating the US heroin market.

As usual, Bond found a way to escape certain death, and managed to force a gas pellet from a shark gun down the throat of the villain (hence the obligatory Bond one-liner: 'He always did have an inflated opinion of himself').

Answer: A deadly joke

The 'Monty Python' movie 'And Now for Something Completely Different' was basically a series of sketches which had been drawn from the comedy team's television series 'Monty Python's Flying Circus'. One of these segments was the unofficially titled 'Funniest Joke in the World' sketch, or 'The Killer Joke'.

The deadly joke had been written during WWII by a Brit named Ernest Scribbler, who died laughing as soon as he put it to paper. Upon finding his body, his mother also died laughing, after reading what she thought was her son's suicide note.

Many deaths later, the joke was translated into German (one word a time, so that the translators only needed to spend a few days in hospital) and was used against the Germans on the battlefield to devastating effect when read aloud by advancing British troops.

Naturally, the audience was humanely spared from hearing the joke.