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Death

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Please tell us how the following people died:

I. "POP"/RECENT:

  1. Alan Berg (not our college rabbi)

  2. Bob Marley

  3. The "Singing Nun"

  4. Louis, Lord Mountbatten

  5. Mama Cass Elliott

  6. Congressman Larry P. MacDonald

  7. Sam Peckinpah

  8. Harry Chapin

  9. Jessica Savitch

  10. John Erik Hexum

  11. John Gardner

  12. Dennis Wilson

  13. Sharon Tate

  14. Roger Chaffee

  15. Sylvia Plath

  16. John Denver (according to Monty Python)

  17. Congressman Leo Ryan

  18. Spider Savitch

  19. Yuri Andropov

  20. Sid Vicious

II. FICTIONAL CHARACTERS

  1. Phineas ("A Separate Peace")

  2. McWatt ("Catch-22")

  3. Leto II Atreides

  4. Piggy ("Lord of the Flies")

  5. Madame Bovary

  6. Anna Karenina

  7. Bromosel ("Bored of the Rings")

  8. Bucky (the original)

  9. Siegfried

  10. -37. Everyone who died in "Hamlet."

  1. Iphigenia

  2. Agamemnon

  3. Clytemnestra

  4. Tosca

  5. Fortunado ("The Casque of Amontillado")

  6. Edna Pontellier ("The Awakening")

III. HISTORIC PERSONS

  1. Enrico Caruso

  2. Maria Callas

  3. Edward the fifth of England

  4. Captain von Trapp

  5. Tiberius Caesar

  6. Alexander the Great

  7. Ludwig van Beethoven

  8. Ephraim Williams (exactly)

  9. Houdini

  10. Isadora Duncan

  11. Dr. Livingston

  12. Erwin Rommel

  13. Father Damian

  14. Genghis Khan

  15. Francis Bacon

  16. Catherine the Great

  17. Thomas a Becket

  18. Lt. Col. William Barret Travis

  19. John Brown

  20. Sir Howard Carter

  21. Absalom

  22. Marcus Junius Brutus

  23. Prince Albert, consort to Queen Victoria

  24. Vitus Bering (Danish explorer for Russia)

  25. Gen. George S. Patton

  26. Pocahontas

  27. Winston Churchill

  28. Alexander Hamilton

  29. King Ludwig II of Bavaria

  30. Arthur Seymour Sullivan

IV. TV/MOVIES

  1. John Big Boote

  2. Doctor Zaius

  3. Col. Henry Blake His plane was shot down by the North Koreans as he was going home

  4. Adric ("Doctor Who")

  5. Frank Poole

  6. Fergie (blond policeman in "Witness")

  7. -82. The crew of the patrol boat in "Apocalypse Now" (names unnecessary)

  1. Cesare ("Cabinet of Dr. Caligari")

  2. Grandpa Walton

  3. Sir Bors ("Monty Python and the Holy Grail")

  4. Kunta Kinte

  5. Lady Marjorie Bellamy

  6. -90. Ben Cartwright's three wives

V. MISCELLANEOUS

  1. Adonis

  2. Edgar Allen Poe

  3. Percy Bysshe Shelley

  4. Mary Anne Nicholls (7 August 1888)

  5. Roland

  6. Chuckles the Clown ("The Mary Tyler Moore Show")

  7. Pinkerton (of Pinkerton Detectives)

  8. William Henry Harrison

  9. Ernest Hemingway's brother

  10. What two noted authors died on April 23, 1616?