How My Fate Was Dealt to Me Trivia Quiz

Answer: Diabetes

Thomas Edison was an American inventor and businessman who has been described as America's greatest inventor. Thomas Edison was raised in the American Midwest and worked as a telegraph operator early in his career, which inspired several of his earlier innovations.

He established the first industrial research laboratory. Thomas Edison died in 1931 at the age of 84 from complications of type 2 diabetes, having had restricted himself to a diet of milk and cigars at the time.

Answer: Guillotine

Louis XVI was the last King of France before the fall of the monarchy during the French Revolution. Louis XVI was neglected by his parents, who preferred his older brother, Louis, Duc de Bourgogne, who was considered intelligent and handsome. He became fluent in Italian and English. Louis XVI's coronation was on June 11, 1775, at Reims Cathedral. Louis XVI was officially arrested on August 13, 1792, and on January 17, 1793, the National Convention convicted the king of high treason for failing to address France's financial problems by a near-unanimous vote. Charles-Henri Sanson carried out the execution of Louis XVI on January 21, 1793.

He was 38 years old.

Answer: Head

Abraham Lincoln was an American lawyer and statesman who served as the 16th president of the United States from 1861 until his assassination in 1865. Abraham Lincoln led the country through the American Civil War and was successful in preserving the Union and abolishing slavery.

He was largely self-educated. He was in office as the 16th president between March 4, 1861, and April 15, 1865. On April 14, 1865, he and his wife Mary were attending the play "Our American Cousin" at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C., when Confederate sympathizer John Wilkes Booth fatally shot him because he believed that Lincoln was determined to overthrow the Constitution and destroy his beloved South.

Answer: Cirrhosis of the Liver

Billie Holiday was an American jazz and swing music singer. After a turbulent childhood, Holiday began singing in nightclubs in Harlem. She won four Grammy Awards, all of them posthumously, for Best Historical Album. Billie Holiday appeared in Duke Ellington's 1935 musical short film "Symphony in Black: A Rhapsody of Negro Life" as a woman abused by her lover.

In her scene, she sang "Saddest Tale". In, May 1959 Billie Holiday was diagnosed with cirrhosis of the liver caused by chronic drinking. She died at age 44, on July 17, 1959, of pulmonary edema and heart failure caused by cirrhosis of the liver.

She had stopped drinking on doctor's orders, but it wasn't long before she relapsed.

Answer: Burned at the Stake

Joan of Arc, also known as "The Maid of Orleans," is regarded as a heroine of France for her role in the Lancastrian phase of the Hundred Years' War and was canonized as a saint. She led a French army to the besieged city of Orléans, where they defeated the English and their French allies in a victorious triumph.

She was convicted of heresy for cross-dressing and because she said she heard voices telling her to attack the English. On May 30, 1431, she was burned at the stake.

Answer: Heart Attack

Mark Twain was an American author, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. Some of Mark Twain's books include "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer", "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn", "The Innocents Abroad", "Roughing It", and " Life on the Mississippi".

He died of a heart attack caused by angina pectoris, a type of chest pain caused by reduced blood flow to the heart on April 21, 1910, in Redding, Connecticut.

Answer: Pancreatic Cancer

Steve Jobs was an American business magnate, industrial designer, investor, and media proprietor. Steve Jobs was born in San Francisco, California, and put up for adoption and adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs. He was the founder, chairman, and CEO of Apple Inc., as well as the founder, chairman, and CEO of NeXT.

In 2003, Steve Jobs was diagnosed with a rare form of pancreatic cancer, called an islet cell tumor or gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine tumor. He died on October 5, 2011.

Answer: Typhus

Anne Frank was a German-Dutch diarist of Jewish heritage. She gained posthumous fame with the 1947 publication of "The Diary of a Young Girl," also known as "The Diary of Anne Frank", in which she recounts her life in hiding from 1942 to 1944. She died at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp of typhus caused by lice infesting the bedstraw and her clothes somewhere between the end of February and the beginning of March 1945.

Answer: Intestines

William the Conqueror was the first Norman monarch of England, reigning from 1066 until he died in 1087. William the Conqueror was born in Falaise, France, in about 1028. He led the Norman invasion of England, and became King of England as a member of the House of Normandy.

In 1087, his horse reared up during a battle, throwing the king against his saddle pommel with such force that his intestines ruptured, causing the infection that led to his death.

Answer: Morphine Overdose

Sigmund Freud was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for treating psychopathology through dialogue between a patient and a psychoanalyst. At the age of 17, Freud enrolled at the University of Vienna. He intended to study law but instead joined the medical faculty at the University of Vienna.

He qualified as a doctor of medicine in 1881. He was given a lethal dose of morphine administered at his request to sedate and relieve his pain caused by an inoperable cancerous tumor in his eye socket and cheek.

He died on September 23, 1939.