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The Weird Author Deaths quiz
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Here is a lovely quiz exploring not the works of famous authors, but what their final actions were.
How did the French playwright Moliere die on February 17, 1673
After being infected from a local outbreak of tuberculosis
He was trampled to death while leaving the theatre
Coughed to death
Choked on a glass of wine
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Three-time Nobel Prize nominee Yukio Mishima died how?
Ritual self-disembowelment
Cyanide poisoning
Murdered by a neighbor
He was hit by a tour bus
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Tennessee Williams, famous for penning A Streetcar Named Desire, met his end by:
Eating poisonous blowfish
Receiving third degree burns after escaping a burning building
Choking on the cap to his bottle of eye drops
Receiving a bite from a rabid dog
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Ancient Chinese poet Li Po died while doing what?
Leaning over the edge of the boat in order to embrace the moon's reflection
Trying to climb the sacred Buddhist mountain Wutai Shan
Choking on hot soup
Exhausting himself while finishing a stanza
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Sir (Saint) Thomas More, Chancellor of England and author of Utopia did what as his last act?
Sang a psalm
Renounced his British citizenship
Told King Henry where to stick it
Tried to cheer up the spirits of his executioner
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Greek playwright Aeschylus died at the mercy of what kind of bird?
A crow pecking at his eyes
An eagle dropping a rock on his head
An ostrich defending her territory
A seagull startling him to death with a cry
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Sir Francis Bacon died as a result of what kind of food reaction?
He contracted salmonella
He had a previously unknown peanut allergy
He had a heart attack as a result of overeating
He caught a chill after trying to preserve a chicken by stuffing it with snow
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Mark Twain believed he had ESP. He believed (and was proven correct) that what act had happened on the day of his birth and would repeat on the day of his death?
A Republican president would take office
He would be visited by many relatives
Appearance in the sky of Halley's Comet
A major world conflict would begin
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Playwright and Shakespearean contemporary Christopher Marlowe was killed in a brawl over a bar tab. Where was he stabbed?
Just above his right eye
In his spleen
Right under his chin
In his left thigh, causing a deadly infection
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Percy Bysshe Shelley died an unfortunate death at sea. After his body washed ashore, he was cremated. According to legend, what part of his body refused to burn?
His eyes
His hands
His left foot
His heart
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Historians theorize that which of the following caused might have caused Jane Austen's early death?
Addison's disease
Lymphoma
Tuberculosis caused by unpasturized milk
All of the above
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With what was Roald Dahl buried?
30 yards of Irish lace
A hatchet
A power saw
A harmonica
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Daniel Dafoe, author of Robinson Crusoe, died while doing what?
Attending a play
Hiding from creditors
Polishing his shoes
Eating breakfast
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In a truly romantic gesture, whose last words were "You are wonderful" to his wife?
Charles Dickens
George Gordon, Lord Byron
William Shakespeare
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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Who, while dying but still very much alive, read of his own death in a magazine and replied, "I've just read that I am dead. Don't forget to delete me from your list of subscribers."
Rudyard Kipling
Benjamin Franklin
Ernest Hemingway
Ambrose Bierce
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