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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 | 33.3% |
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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
Buddha
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.
Bruce Lee
Eric the Red
Julius Caesar
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
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Charles de Gaulle
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
Joseph Smith
Isaac Newton
Francis Bacon
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.
Sophocles
Augustus
Lawrence Olivier
Frank Sinatra
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.
Wolfgang A. Mozart
Leonardo da Vinci
Vincent Van Gogh
Antoni Gaudí
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.
Catherine the Great
Alexander 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..
Qin Shi Huang
Confucius
Louis XIV
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
Charlie Chaplin
Andy Warhol
Oscar Wilde
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
Mahatma Gandhi
Grigori Rasputin
Che Guevara
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
James Dean
Thomas Beckett
George A. Custer
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
Ernest Hemingway
Mao Zedong
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
Voltaire
Tennessee Williams
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
John D. Rockefeller
Stephen Hawking
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.
Harpo Marx
Karl Marx
Chico Marx
Groucho 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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