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Quiz about Last Words and Epitaphs
Quiz about Last Words and Epitaphs

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.
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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


Question 2 of 15
2. What were the last words of Hamlet? Hint


Question 3 of 15
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


Question 4 of 15
4. Whose last words were: 'I have a terrific headache'? Hint


Question 5 of 15
5. On whose grave is the following epitaph: 'STA SOL NE MOEARE' (Stand, Sun, move not) Hint


Question 6 of 15
6. Which is the epitaph of Edgar Allan Poe? Hint


Question 7 of 15
7. 'I have lived as a philosopher and die as a Christian.' Whose last words were those? Hint


Question 8 of 15
8. Which great Russian authors last words were: 'It's been a long time since I've had champagne'? Hint


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


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


Question 11 of 15
11. Which French revolutionary's last words were: 'They shall all be guillotined'? Hint


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


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


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


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



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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
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.'

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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