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1. Before the days of detailed records, this man was believed to have died in a shipwreck, till he was discovered on a desert island. He became the model for Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe. What was his name?
2. Sometimes your survival depends on a miracle. This man was dead until Jesus came to his rescue and revived him. Name him.
3. How well do you remember your low moments of Dubya history? In 2005, the uproar about whether a woman was brain-dead or just sleeping led to a political uproar. Eventually she was allowed to die, and the post mortem confirmed the doctors' diagnosis. Who was this woman?
4. A French movie "The return of Martin Guerre" about a soldier believed lost in battle who comes back from the dead, starred Gerard Depardieu. It was remade in the USA - as what?
5. Josephine Tey's mystery is about a teenager who is supposed either to have run away from home or committed suicide. When an imposter returns, claiming to be the young man, he finds himself in the middle of what turns out to be a murder. The book was called...what?
6. Forty years ago an English MP was initially thought to have committed suicide by drowning himself. Instead, he had set the whole thing up to escape his financial problems and go off with his mistress. He was subsequently arrested in Australia. Name him please.
7. In 1888, the death of this character's brother Ludvig caused several newspapers to publish premature obituaries of him. A French obituary described him as a merchant of death who had become rich by finding ways to kill more people faster than ever before. It is sometimes said that reading those obituaries prompted his founding of awards in order to improve his posthumous legacy. Who was that man?
8. This man is too famous to need much of a clue...but here goes, anyway. Amongst his less famous achievements were working with Ulysses S Grant, producing the first book written on a typewriter, and going bankrupt. He had people thinking he was dead on two occasions. The second came when his yacht went missing, the first when a cousin of his, who was very ill, was confused with him. On that occasion he remarked "The report of my death is an exaggeration". Who was he?
9. Are you ready for a case of foreshadowing? This Black nationalist read his obituary in a Chicago paper in 1940. I'm sure I'm not alone in wondering what the world would think of me, but beware of what you wish for. Our hero read a description of himself that said he had died "Broke, alone and unpopular". Perhaps in consequence of this, he suffered a second stroke and died. Who was he?
10. Bill Henry is not by any means the most famous baseball pitcher ever but he played 16 seasons in the majors, played for Cincinnati in the World Series, and played an All-Star game. So why did his obituary get published prematurely?
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