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Death
PLEASE WRITE ALL ANSWERS IN BLUE BOOKS ONLY, CLEARLY NUMBERED.
Please tell us how the following people died:
I. "POP"/RECENT:
- Alan Berg (not our college rabbi)
Shot to death in his driveway (Berg was a belligerent radio personality)
- Bob Marley
Cancer
- The "Singing Nun"
Suicide by hanging
- Louis, Lord Mountbatten
Blown up on his boat by the IRA
- Mama Cass Elliott
"Choked on a ham sandwich"-- or drug OD, you pick the story
- Congressman Larry P. MacDonald
- Sam Peckinpah
- Harry Chapin
Killed in auto wreck
- Jessica Savitch
Car plunged into shallow ditch; she drowned while unconscious
- John Erik Hexum
Put prop gun to his own head; however, the blank cartridge killed him anyway
- John Gardner
- Dennis Wilson
Drowned while swimming drunk
- Sharon Tate
Stabbed by Charles Manson's group
- Roger Chaffee
- Sylvia Plath
Suicide by gas
- John Denver (according to Monty Python)
Strangled
- Congressman Leo Ryan
Shot by the Rev. Jim Jones' group, as an immediate prelude to the Jonestown massacre
- Spider Savitch
Shot by Christine Longet
- Yuri Andropov
- Sid Vicious
OD on heroin (may or may not have been a suicide)
II. FICTIONAL CHARACTERS
- Phineas ("A Separate Peace")
- McWatt ("Catch-22")
Shredded by airplane propellers
- Leto II Atreides
- Piggy ("Lord of the Flies")
Fell off cliff
- Madame Bovary
- Anna Karenina
Suicide by jumping in front of train
- Bromosel ("Bored of the Rings")
- Bucky (the original)
Blown up by the Red Skull
- Siegfried
Slain by Hagen for treasure
- -37. Everyone who died in "Hamlet."
- Iphigenia
Sacrificed to the gods by Agamemnon
- Agamemnon
Killed in his bath by Clytemnestra
- Clytemnestra
Put to death by Orestes
- Tosca
- Fortunado ("The Casque of Amontillado")
Chained and bricked up behind a wall
- Edna Pontellier ("The Awakening")
III. HISTORIC PERSONS
- Enrico Caruso
Empyema or cancer; anyway, he was spitting up blood during his last performances
- Maria Callas
- Edward the fifth of England
- Captain von Trapp
- Tiberius Caesar
- Alexander the Great
Blood poisoning caused by monkey bite
- Ludwig van Beethoven
- Ephraim Williams (exactly)
- Houdini
Peritonitis, caused by sudden punch to his stomach
- Isadora Duncan
Neck broken when her scarf caught in the wheels of the car she was driving
- Dr. Livingston
- Erwin Rommel
- Father Damian
- Genghis Khan
Died while having sex
- Francis Bacon
- Catherine the Great
- Thomas a Becket
- Lt. Col. William Barret Travis
- John Brown
- Sir Howard Carter
- Absalom
- Marcus Junius Brutus
- Prince Albert, consort to Queen Victoria
- Vitus Bering (Danish explorer for Russia)
- Gen. George S. Patton
Died of injuries caused by jeep wreck
- Pocahontas
- Winston Churchill
- Alexander Hamilton
Shot by Aaron Burr in duel
- King Ludwig II of Bavaria
- Arthur Seymour Sullivan
IV. TV/MOVIES
- John Big Boote
- Doctor Zaius
- Col. Henry Blake
His plane was shot down by the North Koreans as he was going home
- Adric ("Doctor Who")
Blew up in the ship "Earthshock"
- Frank Poole
- Fergie (blond policeman in "Witness")
- -82. The crew of the patrol boat in "Apocalypse Now" (names unnecessary)
- Cesare ("Cabinet of Dr. Caligari")
- Grandpa Walton
- Sir Bors ("Monty Python and the Holy Grail")
- Kunta Kinte
- Lady Marjorie Bellamy
- -90. Ben Cartwright's three wives
Died in childbirth; killed by Indians; fell off a horse.
V. MISCELLANEOUS
- Adonis
Killed by a wild boar, or bear-- translator's pick
- Edgar Allen Poe
Found in Baltimore gutter suffering from combination of illness & narcotics
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
Drowned
- Mary Anne Nicholls (7 August 1888)
Stabbed by Jack the Ripper
- Roland
- Chuckles the Clown ("The Mary Tyler Moore Show")
While dressed as "Peter Peanut," shelled by a rogue elephant
- Pinkerton (of Pinkerton Detectives)
Tripped over leash while walking dog
- William Henry Harrison
Gave 150-minute inauguration speech in stormy weather; contracted pneumonia
- Ernest Hemingway's brother
- What two noted authors died on April 23, 1616?
William Shakespeare and Cervantes