More Strange Ways to Die Trivia Quiz

Answer: No

It turns out that the cables contained lead to make them more flexible. When blood tests were taken it was found that this man's blood lead level was almost 3 times the safety level. However, due to prompt treatment his blood lead level eventually returned to normal. He did not stop smoking.

Answer: He had been electrocuted by the street light.

This was the stangest death by electrocution by a steet lamp that I could find and believe me, there are many! The man had not even touched the street lamp, the electric currents were actually passing through the wet pavement. When the police were arriving a passing car splashed the man and even though he was nowhere near the metal pole or the base he became rigid and started foaming at the mouth. One of the police officers who tried to drag the man away got a sharp shock himself and the poor man was eventually dragged away by his clothing but resucitation was useless.

Answer: True

Roughly 80 percent of the 700 million population in India are Hindu and the dowry system (the woman's family pay the man to marry their daughter) has encouraged the killing of women who disappoint their new husband and or his family. 'Burnt wife syndrome' is so common that the police generally overlook it.

In 1984 an article entitled 'Burnt wife syndrome: A Macabre Problem' was published in 1984 in the 'Journal of the Forensic Sciences Society'. The authors were two indian doctors who said "Hardly a day passes in the life of a forensic pathologist working in a mortuary in one of the Northern Indian states when he is called upon to perform a postmortem examination on the burnt body of a young Hindu woman who has either been killed or driven to end her own life in the flames of fire by her husband and or her in-laws."

Answer: a tiny sliver of glass from the shattered window has pierced his heart

No one knew what killed the boy until an autopsy was performed. The medical examiners found that 'a single sharp, slender fragment of glass' that was projected from the shattered window had pierced the boy's heart and killed him. The fragment of glass was so small that it only left the tiniest puncture mark on the boys skin.

Answer: True

The virus is said to have created a horned demon which decapitated one worker, the other died from a heart attack. Anyone coming within three meters of the computer blacked out or started deranged babbling. The best bit, I think, is that the computer was EXORCISED.

Answer: 30-40 percent

There are some strange findings about lightning. Most people who are struck by lightning are struck at the weekend between 9am and 9pm. You are more likely to get struck by lightning between May and September with early June being the most common. You can get struck by lightning even if you are indoors. The majority of people to whom this has happened have been on the phone at the time.

Answer: suicide

Even though he was a Nobel prize winning author, he was often prone to terrible bouts of depression which could last days or even months. In 1961 his family carted him off to the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota where he was given shock treatments. He only stayed a short while and his wife discovered him one morning sitting in the living room like a zombie with a loaded shotgun in his hands, she once again had him admitted for treatment.

He protested forcefully and was finally discharged. Two days after he got home, Hemingway found the keys to his gun cabinet, which his wife had hidden, and picked out a shotgun.

Then, standing in his pyjamas, he pointed the gun barrel at his forehead and fired both barrels into his brain, completely taking off the top of his prizewinning head.

Answer: True

The 79-year-old Roman Catholic nun was being transported from a hospital run by her Missionaries of Charity to her Home in Calcutta when an unseen force took command of the speeding vehicle and aimed it at the unsuspecting victims. These two poor people were totally unaware that they were going to meet their maker through the intervention of one of his most celebrated agents.

Answer: Turn out the lights, I want to sleep

Not a lot of difference between the two reports! When the Ayatollah had his funeral on June 6, hundreds of thousands of people turned out for the funeral. They waited at the cemetery, seized the coffin and ripped his body from the flimsy wooden box and literally killed one another in an attempt to touch the corpse. Eight people were trampled to death in the process.

Answer: 18

The next morning he woke up and decided to go for a few beers. However, he really wasn't feeling that well so he went back to the hotel. Once he was there he started throwing up violently and so a doctor was summoned. He was rushed to St. Vincent's hospital in Greenwich Village but he slipped into a coma and died.

The pathologist said that although the official cause of death was liver damage he had really died from an 'insult to the brain.'