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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.
Zoroaster
Jesus
Buddha
Muhammad
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.
Eric the Red
Julius Caesar
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.
Winston Churchill
Charles de Gaulle
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Stalin
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.
Nostradamus
Francis Bacon
Isaac Newton
Joseph Smith
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.
Frank Sinatra
Augustus
Lawrence Olivier
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.
Vincent Van Gogh
Wolfgang A. Mozart
Antoni Gaudí
Leonardo da Vinci
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..
Louis XIV
Qin Shi Huang
Confucius
Thomas Jefferson
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
Andy Warhol
Charlie Chaplin
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
Grigori Rasputin
Mahatma Gandhi
11. "My God, what's happened?"
Diana was asking it to fireman Xavier Gourmelon, who led the response team at the crash site.
George A. Custer
Thomas Beckett
Diana Spencer
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.
Ernest Hemingway
Mao Zedong
Frédéric Chopin
Tycho Brahe
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
Tennessee Williams
Voltaire
Groucho Marx
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."
Groucho Marx
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Stephen Hawking
John D. Rockefeller
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.
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.
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!