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Quiz about Suicide Is Painless

Suicide Is Painless Trivia Quiz


"That suicide is painless It brings on many changes And I can take or leave it if I please" Theme song from the film and TV series M*A*S*H*.

A multiple-choice quiz by Rehaberpro. Estimated time: 5 mins.
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Author
Rehaberpro
Time
5 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
374,972
Updated
Dec 03 21
# Qns
10
Difficulty
Average
Avg Score
7 / 10
Plays
416
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Question 1 of 10
1. Peg Entwistle (1908-32) was an aspiring actress who appeared on stage or film with Dorothy Gish, Laurette Taylor, Billie Burke, and Irene Dunne. Disappointed in her career and with her life, she chose to end it how? Hint


Question 2 of 10
2. The audacity of this man, dystrophic and poor, wandering about Athens and "corrupting the morals of youth". He rarely answered a question but asked a lot of them. Who was this social gadfly with opinions on morals, government, and society and in the end chose self administered poison to execution? Hint


Question 3 of 10
3. Trained as a photographer, she shot many official government images. In 1932 she met a powerful man who was twenty three years older and became his mistress. They finally married in 1945 but both committed suicide forty hours later. Who was this woman? Hint


Question 4 of 10
4. Kurt Cobain was the front man for the classic rock group Nirvana. Unfortunately, he succumbed to drug addiction as did several rock stars of that era. After an intervention, he entered a drug rehabilitation program. However, he eloped from the program, returning to Seattle and killing himself with a shot gun. What was the name of his wife that tried to save himself from himself? Hint


Question 5 of 10
5. Robin Williams committed suicide on August 11, 2014. Clinical records and his autopsy revealed several contributing factors in his death. Which was NOT one of them? Hint


Question 6 of 10
6. Self proclaimed 'Gonzo' journalist Hunter Thompson died of a self-inflicted shotgun wound on February 20, 2005. Although as a journalist he wrote about many things, he is best remembered as the author of "Hell's Angels"(1967) and "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas"(1971). At his request he was cremated. How were his ashes disposed of? Hint


Question 7 of 10
7. For male celebrities, the shotgun seems to be the weapon of choice. What Nobel Prize and Pulitzer Prize winning author shot himself in Ketchum, Idaho on July 2, 1961? Hint


Question 8 of 10
8. Spalding Gray was an actor and playwright but his real talent was that of a story-teller. On a stage you would find him sitting at a plain desk telling stories of his life experiences, perhaps with a little imagination added, and fully engaging his audience. How did Gray chose to end his life? Hint


Question 9 of 10
9. Novelist Virginia Woolf suffered from chronic mental illness most of her life. She drowned herself in 1941. How did she assure that she would not be rescued? Hint


Question 10 of 10
10. Meriwether Lewis and William Clark carved a name for themselves in the expedition into the newly acquired Louisiana territory and the Pacific northwest. Lewis was appointed to be acting governor of what was then called Upper Louisiana. Failure of the government to pay expenses had Lewis on the brink of bankruptcy so he decided to go to Washington to plead his case with his logs and documents. He stopped at an inn called Grinder's Stand, southwest of Nashville. The next morning he was found dead from a gunshot wound. It was either suicide or murder. What was the decision of local authorities? Hint



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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. Peg Entwistle (1908-32) was an aspiring actress who appeared on stage or film with Dorothy Gish, Laurette Taylor, Billie Burke, and Irene Dunne. Disappointed in her career and with her life, she chose to end it how?

Answer: Jumping off the "Hollywood" sign

Peg Entwistle was born in Wales, emigrated to America and became an actress on Broadway then to the mecca of Hollywood. It is believed that she sprang to her death from the letter 'H'. Her suicide note is cryptic: "I am afraid, I am a coward. I am sorry for everything. If I had done this a long time ago, it would have saved a lot of pain." She appeared in only one Hollywood film with a supporting role in "Thirteen Women" that starred Myrna Loy and Irene Dunne.

She was married in 1927 to Robert Keith and became the step-mother to Brian Keith, the actor. Hollywood fund raisers for suicide prevention are done in memory of her. A musical based on the tragedy of Peg Entwistle has been produced and there are rumors that her story may be filmed.
2. The audacity of this man, dystrophic and poor, wandering about Athens and "corrupting the morals of youth". He rarely answered a question but asked a lot of them. Who was this social gadfly with opinions on morals, government, and society and in the end chose self administered poison to execution?

Answer: Socrates

Very little is known about Socrates except what Plato and Xenophon wrote about him. He may have received a basic Greek education but he chose either not to write or did not master the art. He married Xanthippe who bore him three sons and whose name became a synonym for a nagging wife.

He made a modest living as a stone mason. Legend has it that he served with distinction in the military. His heritage, preserved mostly by Plato, merits him with being the father of western philosophy.
3. Trained as a photographer, she shot many official government images. In 1932 she met a powerful man who was twenty three years older and became his mistress. They finally married in 1945 but both committed suicide forty hours later. Who was this woman?

Answer: Eva Braun

Eva Braun became the official photographer of the Nazi party. She met Adolf Hitler in 1932 and remained with him until their deaths. Although insider Nazis knew of the relationship, it was not known to the German public. They had separate bedrooms but with a connective passage between. Braun often felt that the Fuhrer neglected her and made two suicide attempts, both believed to be attention-seeking.

As the Third Reich collapsed , both Braun and Hitler took cyanide in the Berlin bunker and Hitler added a bullet to his brain.
4. Kurt Cobain was the front man for the classic rock group Nirvana. Unfortunately, he succumbed to drug addiction as did several rock stars of that era. After an intervention, he entered a drug rehabilitation program. However, he eloped from the program, returning to Seattle and killing himself with a shot gun. What was the name of his wife that tried to save himself from himself?

Answer: Courtney Love

There are almost as many theories about the death of Cobain as the John F. Kennedy death. The evidence seems strongly to point to a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Courtney Love stuck with Cobain through his previous suicide attempts and worked to get him treatment, even though she has had drug issues herself.

She has continued to work as a musician for her group "Hole" and has had a film career that led to several awards and nominations for her role in "The People vs. Larry Flynt" (1996).
5. Robin Williams committed suicide on August 11, 2014. Clinical records and his autopsy revealed several contributing factors in his death. Which was NOT one of them?

Answer: Drug overdose

Although Williams had a history of alcohol and drug abuse, none were found in his system during the autopsy. Williams had been diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease. Many persons with Parkinson's also have Lewy Body Dementia, a disease that may cause hallucinations, cognitive issues, sleeplessness, attention deficits, and depression, all of which were observations on his last few days.

It is possible that some of the prescription drugs he was routinely taking may have been contributing factors.
6. Self proclaimed 'Gonzo' journalist Hunter Thompson died of a self-inflicted shotgun wound on February 20, 2005. Although as a journalist he wrote about many things, he is best remembered as the author of "Hell's Angels"(1967) and "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas"(1971). At his request he was cremated. How were his ashes disposed of?

Answer: Shot out of a cannon

On August 20, 2005, at a funeral paid for by Johnny Depp (who had played Thompson in a film), Thompson's ashes were shot out of a cannon. It was a media event. Present were 280 people that reads like the royalty of politics, show business, and journalism including John Kerry, George McGovern, Ed Bradley, Charlie Rose, Jack Nicholson, John Cusack, Bill Murray, Benicio del Toro, Sean Penn, Josh Hartnett, Lyle Lovett, John Oates, David Amram, and Ralph Steadman.

The canister containing his ashes included fireworks and the playing of Norman Greenbaum's "Spirit in the Sky" and Bob Dylan's "Mr. Tambourine Man." The cannon was placed atop a 153-foot tower. YouTube has the funeral but has a shaky camera and it seems too dark to make out much of anything but there is calliope of unnamed voices.
7. For male celebrities, the shotgun seems to be the weapon of choice. What Nobel Prize and Pulitzer Prize winning author shot himself in Ketchum, Idaho on July 2, 1961?

Answer: Ernest Hemingway

Hemingway's family was in denial and claimed that it was not a suicide but an accident, but one does not clean a shotgun by placing the muzzle in the mouth. Hemingway won both the Pulitzer and the Nobel for his short novel "The Old Man and the Sea" (1953) although it was more for his body of work.

He was ill and had under gone treatments including shock therapy. Suicide ran in his family.
8. Spalding Gray was an actor and playwright but his real talent was that of a story-teller. On a stage you would find him sitting at a plain desk telling stories of his life experiences, perhaps with a little imagination added, and fully engaging his audience. How did Gray chose to end his life?

Answer: Jumped from the Staten Island Ferry

In 2001, Gray suffered injuries in a car crash. He was in the back seat and lurched forward hitting the back of his wife's head and leaving him with serious brain injury. Gray, who had battled depression and bipolar tendencies before, also had a broken hip and his right leg was immobilized. Surgeons removed dozens of bone fragments from his frontal cortex. Gray was in chronic pain and sought many therapies for relief.

But the thought of suicide remained a constant. Some thought that his persistence on suicide was Gray's way of gathering material for a new monologue. On January 11, 2004 he surrendered himself to the waters somewhere between Manhattan and Staten Island.
9. Novelist Virginia Woolf suffered from chronic mental illness most of her life. She drowned herself in 1941. How did she assure that she would not be rescued?

Answer: Loaded her pockets with stones and rocks

In the late 1920s Woolf had great success with her novels "Mrs. Dalloway" (1925)
"To the Lighthouse" (1927), and "Orlando" (1928). Her later works were not that well received. After the activity of and effort of completing a literary work, she would often fall into depression. She was a member of the Bloomsbury Group,
an intellectual group of the some of the finest minds in England. Disappointed in losing her home to the London blitz and the failure of her last literary efforts, she took an overcoat that she stuffed with stones and walked into the River Ouse. Her body was not found for three weeks.
10. Meriwether Lewis and William Clark carved a name for themselves in the expedition into the newly acquired Louisiana territory and the Pacific northwest. Lewis was appointed to be acting governor of what was then called Upper Louisiana. Failure of the government to pay expenses had Lewis on the brink of bankruptcy so he decided to go to Washington to plead his case with his logs and documents. He stopped at an inn called Grinder's Stand, southwest of Nashville. The next morning he was found dead from a gunshot wound. It was either suicide or murder. What was the decision of local authorities?

Answer: Suicide

Priscilla Griner, wife of the proprietor of the inn, gave conflicting accounts of what she heard or seen. When her remarks were picked up by the press, they were laced with speculation and embellishment.

The Natchez Trace that Lewis was following to Washington was a lawless unpatrolled area where robbery and murder were common.

Lewis was suicidal and had to be restrained at least once on his journey.

Lewis was near a ruinous financial situation. He believed that Thomas Jefferson had lost confidence in him. He was a heavy user of alcohol and opium. He had to borrow money to travel to Washington from Saint Louis. Many scholars have probed the murder or suicide issue and the majority have come down on suicide.
Source: Author Rehaberpro

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