Famous Deaths in History - Statistics

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Hint Answer % Correct
A famous president who was shot in the head watching a play Abraham Lincoln
93%
A famous philosopher forced to drink hemlock Socrates
83%
Famously known to have been assassinated with his last words, according to a play, being: "Et tu, Brute?" Julius Caesar
68%
A famous pirate that was found to have died from 5 gunshot wounds and twenty sword wounds Captain Edward Teach (Blackbeard)
66%
He was poisoned with cake and wine, shot with a revolver twice, and then dumped in a river Grigory Rasputin
66%
A famous escape artist that died due to a ruptured appendix, believed to have been caused by being punched in the gut by an amateur boxer Harry Houdini
63%
Physicist and chemist who passed due aplastic anaemia arising from excessive exposure to radiation Marie Curie
63%
A terrible king who died in the middle of a game of chess King Ivan the Terrible
51%
A famous renaissance painter who's death was rumored to have happened after very passionate intercourse and then falling into a fever where the doctors ended up accidently killing him Raphael
46%
This queen's execution via axe failed twice, forcing the executioner to use his axe to saw the rest of her neck off Mary, Queen of Scots
44%
A Greek king who was killed by a monkey bite King Alexander I
29%
A famous Athenian statesman, known for his strict laws, suffocated from an excited crowd throwing clothes on him in affection Draco
22%
Died on his wedding day due to supposedly an assassination by his new wife...or just chocked on his own blood from a nosebleed Attila the Hun
20%
An English pope who died anticlimactically died from choking on a fly that was floating in his wine glass Pope Adrian IV
15%
A Danish astronomer that died due to complications from holding in his urine at a banquet, worried that it'd be impolite to leave the table before finishing his meal Tycho Brahe
7%
A Greek dramatic poet said to be killed by an eagle dropping a tortoise on his head Aeschylus
5%
A Greek philosopher known for his great sense of humour, supposedly died of laughter from making a joke about a giving a donkey some wine after he had witnessed it eat figs. Chrysippus
2%
He jumped in a volcano to prove that he was immortal, ended up just dying instead Empedocles
2%
After murdering a shaman who predicted his death, he fell through the latrine pit in thewashroom and drowned (essentially drowning in a toilet) Jing of Jin
2%
A roman emperor who became a prisoner of a Persian king, eventually dying from being forced to drink molten gold Valerian
2%
A roman emperor who had become so enraged, screaming and yelling, that he died from a stroke Valentinian
0%
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