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Dying words
Whose final words were the following ones?
In some cases, the quotes may be apocryphal.
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Last updated: November 25, 2020
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| First submitted | November 25, 2020 |
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| Average score | 40.0% |
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1. "Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit"
According to Luke 23:46: "Jesus cried with a loud voice and said, 'Father, into your hands I entrust my spirit.' Saying this, he breathed his last." The gospel of John has "It is finished" as the last words of Jesus.
Buddha
Zoroaster
Muhammad
Jesus
2. "You too, my child?"
Historian Suetonius reports that bystanders claimed those words, uttered in Greek (“Kai su, teknon?”), were Caesar's final ones. He doesn't give credit to the story, though. The popular "Et tu Brute?" was made up by Shakespeare.
Julius Caesar
Eric the Red
Bruce Lee
George H. W. Bush
3. "I'm bored with it all."
Churchill didn’t recover from his eighth stroke, in 1965. He spent most of his last days in coma, and said his last words to his son-in-law.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Charles de Gaulle
Stalin
Winston Churchill
4. "Tomorrow, at sunrise, I shall no longer be here."
Michel de Nostredame's secretary claimed that he made this final prophecy on the evening of 1 July 1566. Nostradamus' gout had been worsening in the past weeks.
Isaac Newton
Joseph Smith
Francis Bacon
Nostradamus
5. "Have I played the part well? Then applaud as I exit."
Acording to Suetonius' Twelve Caesars, Augustus last words referred to the play-acting and regal authority that he had put on as emperor.
Lawrence Olivier
Augustus
Frank Sinatra
Sophocles
6. "I have offended God and mankind because my work did not reach the quality it should have."
Leonardo's right hand was paralyzed in the final years of his life, which caused him to leave several of his works unfinished.
Antoni Gaudí
Vincent Van Gogh
Leonardo da Vinci
Wolfgang A. Mozart
7. "To the strongest."
When asked in his deathbed to whom he bequeathed his kingdom, he just replied "to the strongest", which initiated a series of civil wars amongst his commanders.
Alexander the Great
Catherine the Great
Charlemagne
Frederick the Great
8. "Why do you weep? Did you think I was immortal?"
The most powerful king of his generation, Louis died of gangrene at Versailles after a long agony..
Thomas Jefferson
Confucius
Louis XIV
Qin Shi Huang
9. "Either that wallpaper goes, or I do."
Meningitis had forced Wilde to spend his last weeks bedridden on a cheap hotel's room in France.
Maria Callas
Oscar Wilde
Charlie Chaplin
Andy Warhol
10. "I know you have come to kill me. Shoot coward, you are only going to kill a man."
Said by Che to his executioner, when he saw him entering the hut in which he was being held prisoner.
Salvador Allende
Che Guevara
Mahatma Gandhi
Grigori Rasputin
11. "My God, what's happened?"
Diana was asking it to fireman Xavier Gourmelon, who led the response team at the crash site.
Diana Spencer
George A. Custer
Thomas Beckett
James Dean
12. "The earth is suffocating . . . Swear to make them cut me open, so that I won't be buried alive."
According to his wishes, Chopin's sister ensured that his heart was cut out before burial.
Frédéric Chopin
Tycho Brahe
Ernest Hemingway
Mao Zedong
13. "Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something."
Villa was surprised by seven riflemen that ambushed him on his drive home.
Pancho Villa
Groucho Marx
Tennessee Williams
Voltaire
14. "This is no way to live!"
His gravestone bears no epitaph, but in one of his last interviews he suggested one: "Excuse me, I can't stand up."
Stephen Hawking
Groucho Marx
John D. Rockefeller
Fyodor Dostoevsky
15. "Last words are for fools who haven't said enough."
This was Marx's reply to a servant who had asked him if he had any last words.
Karl Marx
Harpo Marx
Groucho Marx
Chico Marx
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Goddard
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Nov 25, 2020
i'm not sure
rocamorar
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Nov 26, 2020
About?
Afghabwe
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Jun 20, 2021
About a little guy, that lives in a blue world.
AnnikaKim
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Jun 13, 2021
This was great fun! But I can't believe I didn't spot Augustus! I know I saw that sentence on his Wikipedia page or somewhere. His last public words were something like "I found Rome of clay and I leave it to you of marble", and remembering that threw me off.
JWatson24
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Jun 20, 2021
Nice quiz! Tough one. Most of these were a stab in the dark for me.
kiwiquizzer
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Jun 21, 2021
Well, I got two.
Froststar101
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Sep 26, 2023
You know the answer choices make the quiz challenging when 5/15 answers are correctly guessed less than 25% of the time! I really enjoyed this and I liked the explanation below each question!
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