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Last Words and Epitaphs Trivia Quiz

Try to guess what were the last words of famous people and fictional characters. There are also a few questions about the epitaphs of famous people.

A multiple-choice quiz by Angua. Estimated time: 5 mins.

Author
Angua

Time
5 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
76,052

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
15

Difficulty
Tough

Avg Score
8 / 15

Plays
914

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Question 1 of 15

1. Whose last words, according to the legend, were 'Don't disturb my circles!'? Hint

Euclid

Thales of Miletus

Democritus

Archimedes of Syracuse

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Question 2 of 15

2. What were the last words of Hamlet? Hint

'To be or not to be'

'The rest is silence'

'This is thy sheath; there rust, and let me die'

'Lord, forgive me all!'

3. On whose grave there's a following epitaph: 'Good frend for Jesus sake forbeare, To digg the dust encloased heare! Blest be the man that spares thes stones, And curst be he that moves my bones.' Hint

George Gordon, Lord Byron

Christopher Marlowe

Geoffrey Chaucer

William Shakespeare

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Question 4 of 15

4. Whose last words were: 'I have a terrific headache'? Hint

William McKinley

Herbert Clark Hoover

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

William Howard Taft

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Question 5 of 15

5. On whose grave is the following epitaph: 'STA SOL NE MOEARE' (Stand, Sun, move not) Hint

Nicolaus Copernicus

Giordano Bruno

Galileo Galilei

Johannes Kepler

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Question 6 of 15

6. Which is the epitaph of Edgar Allan Poe? Hint

'Called Back'

'America's Ace of Aces'

'Quoth the Raven, Nevermore.'

'Steel True, Blade Straight '

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Question 7 of 15

7. 'I have lived as a philosopher and die as a Christian.' Whose last words were those? Hint

Giacom Casanova

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Saint Augustinus

Sir Thomas More

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Question 8 of 15

8. Which great Russian authors last words were: 'It's been a long time since I've had champagne'? Hint

Lev Tolstoy

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky

Anton Chekhov

Ivan Turgenev

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Question 9 of 15

9. 'Yes, that was death. I died - and I awoke. Yes, death is an awakening.' Which fictional character said these words (they were the last words)? Hint

Prince Andrei Bolkowsky - War and Peace by Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy

Doctor Victor Frankenstein - Frankenstein: or the Modern Prometheus, Mary Shelley

Don Quixote of la Mancha - Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel Cervantes

Doctor Henry Jekyll - The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson

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Question 10 of 15

10. 'I have offended God and mankind because my work did not reach the quality it should have'. Whose last words were these? Hint

Galileo Galilei

Leonardo da Vinci

Thomas Alva Edison

Alfred Nobel

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Question 11 of 15

11. Which French revolutionary's last words were: 'They shall all be guillotined'? Hint

Jean-Paul Marat

Georges-Jacques Danton

Maximillian Robespierre

Dr. Joseph Guillotine

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Question 12 of 15

12. Who's last words were 'Go on, get out! Last words are for fools who haven't said enough!'? Hint

Karl Marx

Sir Thomas More

Winston Churchill

Oscar Wilde

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Question 13 of 15

13. On the grave of which great conqueror is the following epitaph: 'A tomb now suffices him for whom the world was not enough'? Hint

Alexander the Great

Napoleon Bonaparte

Gaius Julius Caesar

Genghis Khan

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Question 14 of 15

14. 'VOCATUS ATQUE NON VOCATUS DEUS ADERIT' (Invoked or not invoked, the god is present.) On which psychologist's grave is this epitaph most likely to appear? Hint

Carl Jung

Ivan Pavlov

Sigmund Freud

Abraham Maslow

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Question 15 of 15

15. Here's the epitaph: 'Here lies _______, the once and future king'. What is the missing name? Hint

Alexander the Great

Jesus Christ

Gaius Julius Caesar

King Arthur

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. Whose last words, according to the legend, were 'Don't disturb my circles!'?

Answer: Archimedes of Syracuse

Well, do you remember the greatest mathematician and inventor of Hellenistic Age? Sure, it's Archimedes, the citizen of Syracuse. That's how he died: Second Punic War. Roman army blockades Syracuse for two years, but even Archimedes' catapults and flame throwers do not save the city.

The Roman soldiers get in, and one of them fids an old man, working on some project on the ground. Then Archimedes proclaims his last words: 'Don't disturb my circles!'. (There has been also recorded other version, like 'Stand away, fellow, from my diagram. . . . Somebody give me one of my engines.').

2. What were the last words of Hamlet?

Answer: 'The rest is silence'

'Oh, I die, Horatio; The potent poison quite o'er-crows my spirit: I cannot live to hear the news from England; But I do prophesy the election lights On Fortinbras: he has my dying voice; So tell him, with the occurrents, more and less, Which have solicited. The rest is silence.' www.sullivanet.com

Answer: William Shakespeare

4. Whose last words were: 'I have a terrific headache'?

Answer: Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Year 1945. Roosevelt rests at his private retreat in Warm Springs, Georgia. One day, posing for an artist who painted his portrait, he complains that he has a terrible headache and dies of a cerebral hemorrhage.

5. On whose grave is the following epitaph: 'STA SOL NE MOEARE' (Stand, Sun, move not)

Answer: Nicolaus Copernicus

6. Which is the epitaph of Edgar Allan Poe?

Answer: 'Quoth the Raven, Nevermore.'

'America's Ace of Aces' - Bong, Richard Ira; 'Steel True, Blade Straight' - Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan; 'Called Back' - Dickinson, Emily.

7. 'I have lived as a philosopher and die as a Christian.' Whose last words were those?

Answer: Giacom Casanova

Well, that's really unexpected, since Casanova is mostly known for his reputation of women seducer. But still, he was also famous clergyman and alchemist.

8. Which great Russian authors last words were: 'It's been a long time since I've had champagne'?

Answer: Anton Chekhov

9. 'Yes, that was death. I died - and I awoke. Yes, death is an awakening.' Which fictional character said these words (they were the last words)?

Answer: Prince Andrei Bolkowsky - War and Peace by Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy

10. 'I have offended God and mankind because my work did not reach the quality it should have'. Whose last words were these?

Answer: Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo is best known as an artist, the creator of such masterpieces as the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper. Yet Leonardo was far more than a great artist: he made meticulous observations and carried out research in fields ranging from architecture and civil engineering to astronomy to anatomy and zoology to geography, geology and paleontology.

11. Which French revolutionary's last words were: 'They shall all be guillotined'?

Answer: Jean-Paul Marat

Jean-Paul Marat was one of the most radical and bloodthirsty of all the leaders of the French Revolution. On 13 July, a woman named Charlotte Corday asked the guard at his apartment door if she could hand over information about a counter-revolutionary group to Marat. Marat approved her entry, and she sat in a chair next to his tub and gave him a list of conspirators.

After reading the list, Marat remarked, 'They shall all be guillotined.' As he did, Corday pulled a long-bladed kitchen knife from her dress and drove it into Marat's left chest; she had actually come to take revenge for the execution of a friend.

She was caught and executed four days later.

12. Who's last words were 'Go on, get out! Last words are for fools who haven't said enough!'?

Answer: Karl Marx

Shortly before Karl Marx's death his housekeeper asked if he had any last words. Nice answer she got. :)

13. On the grave of which great conqueror is the following epitaph: 'A tomb now suffices him for whom the world was not enough'?

Answer: Alexander the Great

14. 'VOCATUS ATQUE NON VOCATUS DEUS ADERIT' (Invoked or not invoked, the god is present.) On which psychologist's grave is this epitaph most likely to appear?

Answer: Carl Jung

This is actually the epitaph of Carl Jung.

15. Here's the epitaph: 'Here lies _______, the once and future king'. What is the missing name?

Answer: King Arthur

'Hic jacet Arthurus, rex quondam rexque futurus'

Source: Author Angua

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