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The Death Quiz: Part I

A morbid quiz on death.

A multiple-choice quiz by bolan. Estimated time: 3 mins.

Author
bolan

Time
3 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
7,274

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Average

Avg Score
7 / 10

Plays
3460

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Question 1 of 10

1. Most of you have probably seen the movie "Anastasia". This daughter of the Russian czars was murdered, along with her family, by the Bolsheviks in this year. Hint

1912

1917

1918

1818

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Question 2 of 10

2. Which of the following rock and roll deaths occurred in 1994? Hint

Elvis Presley

Ian Dury

Kurt Cobain

Shannon Hoon

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Question 3 of 10

3. Which prominent AIDS death occurred first? Hint

Rock Hudson

Freddie Mercury

Liberace

Amanda Blake

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Question 4 of 10

4. Which of these dictators died first? Hint

Josef Stalin

Vladimir Lenin

Adolf Hitler

Benito Mussolini

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Question 5 of 10

5. What year did Richard Nixon die? Hint

1983

1987

1994

1993

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Question 6 of 10

6. Who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln in 1865? Hint

Che Guevara

Lee Harvey Oswald

John Wilkes Booth

Charles Giteau

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Question 7 of 10

7. Which conspirator did Julius Caesar allegedly point out in amazement with his last words? Hint

Antony

Cassius

Brutus

Casca

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Question 8 of 10

8. Which of the following is not a way Jason Voorhees was 'killed' in the "Friday the 13th" movie series? Hint

Beheading

Axe to Head

Drowning

Machete to Neck

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Question 9 of 10

9. Serial killer John Wayne Gacy murdered how many young boys? Hint

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Question 10 of 10

10. When did President John F. Kennedy die? Hint

1969

1960

1963

1966

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. Most of you have probably seen the movie "Anastasia". This daughter of the Russian czars was murdered, along with her family, by the Bolsheviks in this year.

Answer: 1918

Lenin's renegade Bolshevik faction assassinated the entire family to break the final link with the czars, despite the fact that the last czar had abdicated from power more than sixteen months before.

2. Which of the following rock and roll deaths occurred in 1994?

Answer: Kurt Cobain

This should have been a gimme for anyone who watched the music scene in 1994. Kurt Cobain's suicide rocked the world of alternative music. Just so you know about the other answers: Shannon Hoon overdosed on drugs, Elvis had heart failure, and Ian Dury died of cancer.

3. Which prominent AIDS death occurred first?

Answer: Rock Hudson

Rock Hudson's death from the newly discovered disease in 1985 shocked the world, and started to bring to light the horrors of this disease. Hudson spent the last months of his life trying to teach about the disease.

4. Which of these dictators died first?

Answer: Vladimir Lenin

Lenin died of a stroke in 1924. Stalin died in 1953. Hitler and Mussolini died in 1945.

5. What year did Richard Nixon die?

Answer: 1994

Richard Nixon died on April 22, 1994. The U.S.'s most disgraced president spent the twenty years after his resignation trying to recover his image, writing books and gaining praise as an elder statesman.

6. Who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln in 1865?

Answer: John Wilkes Booth

Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth. Oswald, Giteau and Czolgolz were later Presidential assassins. Che Guevara was a Cuban revolutionary who was murdered in Bolivia in the '60s. Lawrence Feinberg was the real name of Larry Fine of the Three Stooges.

7. Which conspirator did Julius Caesar allegedly point out in amazement with his last words?

Answer: Brutus

'Et tu, Brute?' Caesar is reputed to have said as he died. This means in English 'You too, Brutus?'

8. Which of the following is not a way Jason Voorhees was 'killed' in the "Friday the 13th" movie series?

Answer: Beheading

Jason was not beheaded in the movies, but his mother was in the first one. Part I: Jason's mother is beheaded. Part II: Jason gets a machete to side of neck, going down into chest. Part III: Jason gets an axe to the head. Part IV: Jason gets a machete to the side of his head. Part V: Psuedo-Jason is pushed out of a building onto spikes. Part VI: Jason is sent back to Crystal Lake with a rock and chain. Part VII: Jason is dragged into Crystal Lake by dead father. Part VIII: Jason is destroyed by a flood of toxic waste in a sewer. Part IX: Jason is sent to Hell by taking a ceremonial dagger in his back.

9. Serial killer John Wayne Gacy murdered how many young boys?

Answer: 33

John Wayne Gacy savagely murdered 33 young men. Thankfully, Gacy himself was put to death by the state of Illinois in 1994.

10. When did President John F. Kennedy die?

Answer: 1963

He was assassinated on November 22, 1963 by Lee Harvey Oswald.

Source: Author bolan

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