Great Blunders Throughout History Quiz

Answer: Flew too close to explosives

During the shooting of the film "The Twilight Zone", based on the TV show, a terrible accident occurred. The accident took place in 1982, and even though four died during the movie's filming, it was released the very next year!

The pilot of the helicopter was flying above Vic Morrow, who was carrying two young girls. The pilot did not realize that he had gotten too close to some explosives (what a blunder) and he crashed into the water. This accident crushed one girl as it landed on her, killed the pilot, and the rotors, still moving, decapitated Vic Morrow and the other young girl he was carrying.

Answer: Electrocution

After slipping on the cow patty, Yooket Paen tried to keep herself standing by grabbing on to something. Unfortunately, what she grabbed on to was an active wire, and she was electrocuted. What makes this story even more remarkable is what her sister did. Shortly after the funeral of Yooket Paen, her sister, Yooket Pan was trying to show someone exactly how her sister had died.

She tried to show as best as she could, and probably too well. Instead of simply showing what happened, she, too, slipped on cow dung, and also grabbed the same wire, and she, too, was electrocuted. Way to go.

Answer: Timothy Treadwell

Timothy Treadwell, in 2006, decided to stay longer than the producers of his show, "The Grizzly Man Diaries", intended. He and his girlfriend lived with grizzly bears for years, but left when they went into hibernation. Timothy claimed that the reason he could survive was because the bears were used to him.

However, when the grizzlies went into hibernation, more bears came who did not know him and his girlfriend. They were both attacked and killed by another bear. They probably should have left earlier!

Answer: Steve Irwin

Steve Irwin was known as the "Crocodile Hunter" because he wrestles crocs more than any other animal. However, during the shooting of an episode for his show, Steve Irwin died. They were filming Steve and a stingray. The stingray stuck a barb in his chest. If he left it in his chest, he could have lived, but because he took it out, he died.

The barb had pierced his heart, so, because of the hole, he could not pump any blood, so he bled to death. Irwin's death was a freak accident, as it is highly unlikely to die from a stingray's barb, although it IS venomous.

He died in 2006.

Answer: Tennessee Williams

Tennessee Williams died at the age of 71 in 1983. When he put in his eye drops, he would always put the cap in his mouth. One day, though, his teeth didn't quite hold the cap tight enough and down it went, straight into his windpipe! It is debated as to whether drugs had something to do with his death or not. Apparently, the drugs made it so he had no gag reflex, so he couldn't gag the cap back out. If he had known that is how he would die, he would probably never put a cap in his mouth again!

Answer: Hans Steininger

Hans Steininger died in 1567. There was a fire where he lived, so he ran. But, he forgot to lift his four and a half foot beard while running. Therefore, the poor man tripped over it, and broke his neck. He died from the broken neck, but the fire shortly thereafter probably didn't help any!

Answer: Jezebel

Wicked Queen Jezebel died when she was thrown out a window. But the fall is not what killed her. Neither was the trampling of horses. No, what killed her was being eaten by ravenous dogs. She was in a lot of pain before her death, no doubt!

Answer: Utah

Aron Ralston was rock climbing in Blue John Canyon in Utah, United States in 2003. A giant rock fell and crushed his lower right arm on the canyon wall. Ralston was stuck there for days. After he had run out of water, he began drinking his own urine (talk about bad breath). After several days, he already carved his name in the rock, as a tombstone, and recorded goodbye messages to his friends and family. After five days, however, he finally decided to snap his bones, which he did successfully, and cut through his arm. He did cut through the arm, and he was now free. But his journey was not yet over. He began walking in the very hot sun for a while in the canyon. He was finally rescued, and his arm was removed. He was not able to keep his arm, though. It was cremated, and brought back to the place of the accident.

This has not stopped Ralston from climbing, however. He has become the first person to ever climb all of the 14,000 foot high mountains in Colorado by himself... in winter.

Answer: 15 to 20 seconds

Interestingly, a head will remain conscious for several seconds after being chopped off. It eventually dies because there is no heart to pump blood into it. Once the blood drains out, it cannot live. I suppose, though, if you let the blood rush to your head, the head would stay alive longer!

Depending on where the head is cut, the body itself can continue to live, too. A certain chicken was beheaded, but the cerebellum was missed, so he continued to live for several months. He finally died when a piece of food was given to him through the wrong tube when the farmer was feeding him, and he suffocated.

So... Just like in movies and TV, a head without a body really CAN stare at you! Creepy.

Answer: Donald O'Connor

Anna Nicole Smith was a famous "Playboy" model. She died when she was 39 because of prescription drug overdose. Just a few months before her death, her son had also died of drug overdose at the age of 20. His name was Daniel.

Janis Joplin was a famous singer. She died when she was 27 of an overdose of heroin. She was found dead on the floor in a hotel room. Her ashes were sprinkled over much of the Pacific ocean. Can't get the ashes back now!

River Phoenix was a famous actor, along with his four siblings. He died when he was but 23 years old. He died of a heroin and cocaine overdose. He had become ill after using drugs, and collapsed outside on the sidewalk in front of two of his siblings and his girlfriend. He began having seizures. Paramedics were not able to save him and he died.

Donald O'Connor did not die from drug overdose. He died when he was 78, from heart failure. He was a famous actor and dancer, most noted as Cosmo from "Singin' in the Rain".