They Went That-a-Way! Trivia Quiz

Answer: Leno LaBianca

Leno LaBianca was murdered two days later at a different location, by the followers of Charles Manson. On August 8th, members of the Manson family invaded the home of actress Sharon Tate, and brutally murdered the actress and four of her houseguests. Also killed that night at the Cielo Drive location were Steven Parent, Abigail Folger, Voytec Frykowski, and Jay Sebring. Parent died of multiple gunshot wounds. The other victims died of multiple stab wounds. At the time of her murder, Tate was eight and a half months pregnant.

Two nights later, the Manson family struck again. This time, they invaded the home of businessman/grocery storeowner Leno LaBianca. Both Leno and his wife Rosemary were repeatedly stabbed by the group of deranged killers. Both victims died from their wounds.

Answer: Drowning

At the age of 88, Redenbacher died while in the whirlpool tub of his condominium. Redenbacher suffered a massive heart attack while alone at his home, and drowned.

Answer: Bob Hope

Bob Hope was born on May 29, 1903, and lived to 100 years and nearly three months. He died on August 27, 2003.

George Burns was born on January 20, 1896, and lived to 100 years and one and a half months. He died on May 26, 1996.

Entertainer Eddie Albert was born on April 22, 1906, and lived to 99-years-old. He died on May 26, 2005.

Comedian Jack Benny was born on February 14, 1894, and lived to 80-years-old. He died on December 26, 1974. Out of the four listed, he led the shortest life.

Answer: Neither bullet wound was considered to be life threatening.

Leon Frank Czolgosz shot McKinley twice at point blank range on September 6, 1901, as he stood in a reception line at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York. The first bullet deflected off a button and did not seriously injure the President. The second bullet went through McKinley's stomach, colon, and kidney, and lodged in the muscle in his back.

Doctors were unable to locate the second bullet. It was felt that the search for the bullet, using the available 19th century medical technology and techniques might cause more harm than good. McKinley appeared to be recovering, so the doctors decided to leave the bullet where it was. McKinley's doctors believed he would recover, and the President convalesced for more than a week. Eight days after being shot, McKinley died from gangrene, which had surrounded his wound, on September 14, 1901.

Czolgosz was later found guilty of murder, and was executed by means of electrocution, on October 29, 1901.

Answer: Betty Grable

Dancer, singer, actress, and famous World War II pin up girl Betty Grable died of liver cancer at the age of 56, in Santa Monica, California on July 2, 1973.
Academy Award winning actress Grace Kelly, who was married to Rainier III, The Prince of Monaco, was killed on September 13, 1982 at the age of 52, after suffering a stroke while driving back from the family home in La Turbie, France, to Monaco. Kelly's vehicle left the road and went down a mountainside. Kelly died the following day as a result of her injuries, without regaining consciousness.

Diana Spencer, the Princess of Wales, was killed on August 31, 1997, after a high-speed car accident in Paris, France.

Actress and 1950's blonde bombshell Jayne Mansfield, was killed on June 29, 1967, at the age of 34, when the car in which she was riding (reportedly traveling a 80 m.p.h.) crashed into the back of a tractor. The car collided with tractor-trailer that had slowed on the road because of a truck spraying mosquito fogger. Mansfield and two other adults, all riding in the front seat of the vehicle were killed instantly. Three of Mansfield's five children were riding in the back seat of the car, and survived the accident with only minor injuries.

Rumors circulated at the time of the accident, that Jayne Mansfield had been decapitated, have been proved untrue. Mansfield did suffer severe head trauma in the accident. The rumors of decapitation may have been the result of police photographs of the accident scene, which showed what appeared to be a blonde hair tangled in the car's smashed windshield, it is believed that this was either a wig Mansfield was wearing at the time of the collision, or was her actual hair and scalp.

Answer: Peter Lawford

Lawford died on December 24, 1984 at the age of 61 following cardiac arrest that was complicated by liver and kidney complications.

Sammy Davis Jr., passed away on May 15, 1990 at the age of 64, as a result of complications of throat cancer.

Dean Martin passed away at his home on December 25,1995, due to respiratory failure (lung cancer and emphysema) at the age of 78.

The leader of the group, Frank Sinatra, died at Cedars Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles, California on May 14, 1998. Sinatra suffered a heart attack. Sinatra also suffered from heart and kidney disease. Sinatra passed away at the age of 82.

Answer: Bullet wound

Oswald, the accused assassin of President John F. Kennedy, was gunned down on live television, in the basement of the Dallas (Texas) Police Department headquarters. While being escorted through the basement to a waiting armored vehicle for transportation to the Dallas County jail, Oswald, while handcuffed to a police detective, was shot once and fatally wounded by Jack Ruby, a Dallas nightclub owner.

This was believed to be the first time that a homicide was shown on live television.

Answer: James Dean

Dean, a young movie actor best remembered for his role as a troubled teenager in the 1955 film "Rebel Without A Cause", was killed in a motor vehicle accident on September 30, 1955.

Dean was behind the wheel of his Porsche 550 Spyder sports car, enroute to a sports car rally race in Salinas, California. While driving westbound on US Highway 466 (later renamed California State Route 46), a driver traveling eastbound attempted to turn onto a cross road (California state route 41) and without seeing him, turned into the path of Dean's vehicle, causing a near head-on collision. Dean was taken to the Paso Robles War Memorial Hospital, where he was pronounced to be "dead on arrival".

While Dean's brief movie career included only seven films, he received critical acclaim for his roles in his last three movies, "East of Eden", "Giant", and "Rebel Without A Cause". Dean was the first person to receive a posthumous Academy Award nomination for Best Actor, and is the only person to have two such nominations posthumously.

Answer: Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein, the German born theoretical physicist, is probably best remembered as a winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics, for his theory of relativity and mass-energy equivalence, E=MC2. Einstein died on April 19, 1955, after being admitted to Princeton Hospital in New Jersey.

Death came as a result of internal bleeding caused by an aortic aneurysm.
An unusual aspect of Einstein's death came when Princeton Hospital pathologist, Dr. Thomas Soltz Harvey, who performed the autopsy on Einstein, removed and retained the brain of Einstein, without the knowledge or consent of Einstein's family. It was Harvey's hope that neuroscience of the future would be able to discover what made Einstein so intelligent.

Answer: Florida

According to Wikipedia: "The space shuttle Challenger, on mission STS-51-L, disintegrated 73 seconds into its flight, following launch from Kennedy Space Center, over the state of Florida. It was later determined that an "O-Ring Seal' in the right solid rocket booster failed. This seal failure caused a flame leak from the solid rocket booster, which impinged upon the adjacent external fuel tank. Within seconds, the flames caused structural failure of the external tank, and aerodynamic forces promptly broke up the orbiter. The shuttle was destroyed and all seven crew members were killed. The crew compartment, and many other vehicle fragments were eventually recovered from the ocean floor after a lengthy search and rescue."

Source quoted from:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/space_shuttle_diaster