Strange Ways To Die Trivia Quiz

Answer: a bluegill fish

This poor man was preparing to remove a bluegill from the hook of his fishing line. He held it up to admire it, dropped it and it got lodged in his throat. The scales and the gills were so tightly stuck that it was impossible to remove. He managed to get home but it was too late. He was killed by a kamikaze bluegill!

Answer: she ate coins

When the postmortem was carried out it was found that over the years she had eaten 275 coins and the cause of death was listed as copper poisoning. In total the coins came to {$14.84,} there was 174 pennies, 33 nickels, 37 dimes and 31 quarters.

Answer: a chainsaw

This young man had tried several times to commit suicide. Three weeks before he was sucessful he had tried to overdose on tranquilizers but had been resuscitated at the hospital. On the night he was successful he came in to see his mother in law (whom he shared a house with - reason for the suicide perhaps) and she was terrified by the amount of blood on his shirt.

He explained that he had tried to stab himself in the chest and that it was alright, he had found a more effective way. He then proceeded to go into the shed in his backgarden and use a chainsaw to rip his chest open.

The thing is, it was not the deep slashes in his chest that killed him, it was the vibrations. The vibrations from the chain saw were so intense that they caused some of the tissues in his chest to burst.

These were certainly not good vibrations - there's a song in there somewhere I'm sure.

Answer: he leaned out the window and was cut in half by a signpost

Where do people get these ideas. At about 3a.m. on an expressway in Long Island the upper half of a man's body was found 100 yards away from an abandoned Toyota Corolla. Initially the authorities thought it was a particularly grisly murder but after an extensive enquiry found it to be a rather strange suicide.

This 35 year old man, who had had self-destructive tendencies for most of his life, managed to keep his car at a steady 25m.p.h. while keeping his upper torso hanging out the window on the passenger side.

He hit the EXIT 39N GLEN COVE RD. NORTH road sign and his body was sliced clean in two. The only reason investigators picked up on the fact that this was not a homicide was by the large amount of blood and guts on the roadsign 3 feet away.

Answer: It kills almost 5 times more men than women

Some people use this as a line of reasoning for why God must be female!

Answer: True

Could this be another sign that God is a woman? In most cases the death was due to a heart attack. It has been suggested that this is because men who are having affairs are under a lot of stress, they have usually been out for a big meal, have consumed lots of alcohol and that the surroundings are generally unfamiliar. All of these together with physical exertion makes a heart attack more likely.

Answer: in his swimming pool

You can just see the headline now 'WHALE FOUND IN SWIMMING POOL!' It has to be said, James Whale directed some great movies in his time. 'Frankenstein' (1931), 'Bride of Frankenstein' (1935) and 'The Invisible Man' (1933). However, after 1936 his career started to go downhill until eventually he wrote a charming suicide note, making sure everyone knew that he wasn't blaming anyone, and jumped head first into the shallow end of his swimming pool thus rendering himself unconsious.

He was found dead the next morning.

Answer: his blood

In the year 453 Attila the Hun was celebrating his marriage to his young wife Ildico. Wedding parties don't seem to have changed that much over the years, there was lots of eating and drinking and the newlywed Attila got very drunk indeed. He picked up his young wife and carried her to his tent to formally consumate the marriage.

He must have been over exherting himself because his nose started to bleed. This is not exactly a life theating thing, but because he was so drunk, the blood rushing down the back of his throat actually choked him to death.

Answer: True

Someone tipped the Secret Service men off and they caught the two men in the act, just as they were lifting the dead president's casket out of its sarcophagus.

Answer: Yes

Mussolini was hanged by angry mobs of his own countrymen when the war was ending and his body was dragged through the streets and dismembered. Hitler allegedly either shot or poisoned himself with potassium cyanide in his Berlin bunker in April 1945. But, Emperor Hirohito died of natural causes in 1989.