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How did these famous people die?
People who died in a battle or skirmish are counted for battle even if they did not fight
Two of these are speculative but likely
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Saint Paul
Robin Williams
Jim Morrison
Giordano Bruno
Jimi Hendrix
Virginia Woolf
Antoni Gaudí
Umar
Paul Gauguin
Princess Diana
Hannibal
Benazir Bhutto
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Caligula
William McKinley
Ali
Shinzo Abe
Marie Antoinette
Albert Camus
Pierre Curie
Andrew Garfield
Amy Winehouse
Saddam Hussein
Indira Gandhi
Whitney Houston
Muammar Gaddafi
Judy Garland
Nicholas II
Rosa Luxemburg
Cyrus the Great
assassinated
battle
drowned
drugs
executed
suicide
vehicle crash
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Level 79
Jul 5, 2025
Did you mean to put James A. Garfield? I panicked and checked to make sure Andrew Garfield was still alive lmao

Also some of these have multiple correct answers - Virginia Woolf committed suicide THROUGH drowning so both should be accepted. Whitney Houston died from drowning DUE to drugs

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Level 77
Jul 6, 2025
Lol you're right, don't know I messed Garfield up. I added drowning at the last minute and forgot about Woolf (and adding a caveat), now she counts as drugs. I suspected the quiz wasn't done when I submitted, should've checked. Thanks for pointing these out!
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Level 74
Jul 9, 2025
Rosa Luxemburg: She was assassinated, not executed. It wasn't a court decision, but a paramilitary group that took action by themselves. It was an abduction and not an arrest, hence she was assassinated.

Gaddafi: Wasn't he killed when trying to flee or hide? Wouldn't that rather fit assassination, too? He might have fought for his life, but I'm not sure, calling it a battle is correct, here.

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Level 77
Jul 10, 2025
Hmm, I thought about both of these, and they're tricky. Wikipedia does say Luxemburg was executed, and I think paramilitary groups can definitely execute people even without courts. And she was captured, questioned and tortured before being shot, which does not fit with the typical definition of an assassination. Would you say Nicholas II was assassinated too? They seem similar. I guess the best term would be murdered, but that would muddy it even more.

As for Gaddafi: It's not entirely clear, and there are differing accounts. My best understanding is that he was captured and beaten, then hit by a stray bullet while lying on top of a moving car, and that he wasn't supposed to be killed there. That's why I classified it as battle.