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Famous Last Words Trivia Quiz


What were the last words of these famous people?

A multiple-choice quiz by golfer46. Estimated time: 4 mins.
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Author
golfer46
Time
4 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
374,998
Updated
Dec 03 21
# Qns
10
Difficulty
Average
Avg Score
6 / 10
Plays
585
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Question 1 of 10
1. Whose last words were "I'm going to the bathroom to read"? If you get this correct I will "thank you very much". Hint


Question 2 of 10
2. What were George Orwell's last words? Hint


Question 3 of 10
3. What other composer's name did Gustav Mahler utter before he died? Hint


Question 4 of 10
4. What British linguist died with the word "Dictionary" on his lips? Hint


Question 5 of 10
5. What American author, who had a Broadway play written with the same title as his nickname, died calling for his "Mama"? Hint


Question 6 of 10
6. Who died being "bored with it all" after being a soldier, politician, author, and painter? Hint


Question 7 of 10
7. What knighted author of a series of detective mysteries featuring a brilliant amateur sleuth last said to his wife "You are wonderful"? Hint


Question 8 of 10
8. What movie and TV comedian who died of pneumonia in Los Angeles said "this is no way to live" as his last words? You can bet your life on that. Hint


Question 9 of 10
9. What all time college scoring champ and professional basketball player died saying "I feel great"? Hint


Question 10 of 10
10. What female reproductive rights advocate died saying "Party! Let's have a party." Hint



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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. Whose last words were "I'm going to the bathroom to read"? If you get this correct I will "thank you very much".

Answer: Elvis Presley

Elvis died in 1977 at his home, Graceland. His girl friend, Ginger Alden, who found him slumped over in the bathroom gives us his last words. He died of a heart attack. Years of prescription drug abuse contributed to his premature death. He sold over 600 million records worldwide.
2. What were George Orwell's last words?

Answer: At fifty, eveyone has the face he deserves

The author of "Nineteen Eighty-Four" and "Animal Farm" died in 1950 at 46 from the complications of tuberculosis. He real name was Eric Blair. Orwell fought in the Spanish Civil war on the side of the Republicans against Franco's Nationalists in 1936. But, due to the suppression by the Soviet-backed Communists of the revolutionary socialist dissenters, Orwell had to flee for his life.

He became an ardent anti-Stalinist which led him to write the political fable set on a farm based on Stalin's betrayal of the Russian Revolution.

The financial success of "Animal Farm" made him comfortable for the rest of his life.
3. What other composer's name did Gustav Mahler utter before he died?

Answer: Mozart

Mahler died in 1911 from streptococcus septicemia at 51. During his lifetime he was more appreciated for his conducting more than his musical compositions. In 1910 he had helpful 'marriage counseling therapy' session with Sigmund Freud. Freud's diagnosis was mother-fixation.
4. What British linguist died with the word "Dictionary" on his lips?

Answer: Joseph Wright

Wright died in 1930 at the age of 75 from pneumonia. He was JRR Tolkien's tutor at Oxford. Virginia Woolf, in her diary, expressed her admiration for his work as editor of "The English Dialect Dictionary".
5. What American author, who had a Broadway play written with the same title as his nickname, died calling for his "Mama"?

Answer: Truman Capote

"Tru" died in 1984 at age 59 from liver cancer at the home of his friend Joanne Carson (former wife of Johnny Carson). His years of alcohol and drugs abuse contributed heavily to his death. He is well known for writing "Breakfast at Tiffany's" and "In Cold Blood", both made into hit films.
He was born Truman Streckfus Parsons and took on the surname of Capote when his mother remarried after a divorce.
6. Who died being "bored with it all" after being a soldier, politician, author, and painter?

Answer: Winston Churchill

Churchill died in 1965 at age 90 after multiple strokes. His mother, Jennie Jerome, was American. He served as Prime Minister of Britain from 1940-45 and again from 1951-55 and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1953 "for his mastery of historical and biographical description". He painted under the pseudonym of "Charles Morin" mainly using oils in his impressionist works.
7. What knighted author of a series of detective mysteries featuring a brilliant amateur sleuth last said to his wife "You are wonderful"?

Answer: Arthur Conan Doyle

Doyle died of a heart attack at his home in 1930 at age 71. He received a degree in medicine and because his practice was slow he started writing. He later specialized in ophthalmology. The three other answers all refused a knighthood.
8. What movie and TV comedian who died of pneumonia in Los Angeles said "this is no way to live" as his last words? You can bet your life on that.

Answer: Groucho Marx

Groucho made 13 films with the Marx brothers. His death was overshadowed by the passing of Elvis who had died just three days earlier. He had a TV show called "You bet your life".
9. What all time college scoring champ and professional basketball player died saying "I feel great"?

Answer: Pete Maravich

"Pistol" Pete died in a pickup game in a Pasadena gym due to heart failure at age 40 in 1988. He was the all time college scoring champ inspite of not being allowed to play as a freshman and before the 3 point basket rule and the shot clock were the rule.

His 3,667 career points and 44.2 points/game are still the record. An autopsy revealed an unknown congenital heart defect: he was born without a left coronary artery.
10. What female reproductive rights advocate died saying "Party! Let's have a party."

Answer: Margaret Sanger

Sanger died in 1966 at the age of 86 from congestive heart failure. Although she was responsible for the founding of Planned Parenthood she was not an advocate of abortion. Ethel Byrne was her more radical sister who, after their 1916 arrests for opening a contraceptive clinic, became one of the first American hunger strikers. Emma Goldman was an anarchist and advocate for free love and birth control.

She was deported to the USSR in 1919. In 1938, Lasker became the president of the Birth Control Federation of America, the precursor to Planned Parenthood.
Source: Author golfer46

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