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What famous Christian saint, while being burned at the stake, uttered the final words, "Hold high the cross so that I may see it through the flames"?
St. Joan of Arc
St. Peter
St. Paul
St. Patrick
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What famous Silk Road explorer's last words, "I have not told half of what I've seen!" were uttered to a skeptic?
Ponce de Leon
Vasco de Gama
Christopher Columbus
Marco Polo
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What famous Chinese philosopher died penniless and made the following lament as his last words? "Heaven has turned against me. No wise ruler arises, and no one in the Empire wishes to make me his teacher. The hour of my death has come."
Cao Cao
Lao Tzu
Sun Tzu
Confucius
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What famous Greek scientist was killed by Roman soldiers during an experiment and yelled the final words, "Don't disturb my circles!"?
Virgilus
Archimedes
Socrates
Draco
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What 95 Theses author gave the final words, "We are beggars, this is true"?
Martin Luther
Thomas More
Thomas Hobbes
Martin of Tours
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What Paradise Lost author's final words were "Death is the great key that opens the palace to eternity"?
William Shakespeare
Geoffrey Chaucer
Dante
John Milton
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Sarah Good, a victim of what infamous purge, gave these last words? "You are a liar! I'm no more a witch than you are a wizard, and if you take away my life, God will give you blood to drink."
The Holodomor
The Salem Witch Trials
The Spanish Inquisition
The Pendulum Trials
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What Norwegian comic playwright's final words were "On the contrary," after his nurse told him he was getting much better?
Edvard Grieg
Anton Chekhov
Hans Christian Anderson
Henrik Ibsen
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William Shakespeare's writing suggested that "Et Tu, Brute?" is the final sentence uttered by what historical figure?
King Lear
Cleopatra
Julius Caesar
Henry V
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On the subject of Roman authoritarians, what "fiddling" emperor's final words were "Is this how you show your fidelity?" when one of his servants tried to save him from suicide?
Nero
Caligula
Marcus Aurelius
Augustus
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What Great Gatsby writer's last words were a request for Hershey's candy bars?
George Orwell
John Steinbeck
Mark Twain
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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What British prime minister's final words given in 1965 were, "I'm so bored of it all"?
Marget Thatcher
Winston Churchill
Boris Johnson
Tony Blair
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What Irish humorist and Importance of Being Earnest author's final words were, "That wallpaper and I are fighting to the death. Either it goes or I do."?
Oscar Wilde
Bram Stoker
James Joyce
Joseph Conrad
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What infamous Louisiana governor and senator who was an enemy of Franklin Delano Roosevelt gave the following last words after he was assassinated, "I wonder why he shot me"?
Keith Lemmon
Orval Faubus
Bubba Sharpe
Huey Long
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What infamous wife of France's King Louis XVI gave her final words as "Excuse me, sir," after she accidentally stepped on her executioner's foot?
Olivia Beaumont
Susan De Laine
Catherine the Great
Marie Antoinette
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What controversial philosopher's last words were ironically, "Last words are for fools who have not yet said enough."?
Blaise Pascal
Friedrich Nietzche
Georg Hegel
Karl Marx
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"I have loved justice and hated iniquity; therefore, I die in exile," are the profound last words of what pope who became famous for his opposition to the Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV?
Pope Gregory VII
Pope Peter I
Pope John Paul II
Pope Urban II
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What grandfather of Queen Elizabeth II shouted the final words, "God damn you all!" as he was euthanized by his nurse?
George III
George V
Henry VIII
Richard III
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What French mystic's final words were the prophecy, "Tomorrow at sunrise, I will no longer be here"?
Rasputin
Nostradamus
Paracelsus
Aleister Crowley
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The murderer George Appel gave what comedic farewell as he was led to the electric chair?
Well, folks, you'll soon see a baked apple.
Georgy Porgy pudding pie, Throw the switch and I will fry.
Do you kill and apple a day, judge?
I understand. I was rotten to the core, after all.
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What American gangster's final words were, "Tell Georgie I want to get into the movies one way or another"?
Lefty Callahan
Lucky Luciano
Bugs Moran
Al Capone
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What A Farewell to Arms author said, "Good night my kitten," as his final words before taking his own life?
T. S. Eliot
John Steinbeck
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ernest Hemingway
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What American patriot uttered the final words, "I only regret that I have but one life to give for my country," as he was led to be executed?
Ethan Allen
Benedict Arnold
George Washington
Nathan Hale
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"Well boys, do your best for the women and children, and look out for yourselves," were the final orders of Edward Smith during what disaster he was partially responsible for?
The Three Mile Island Disaster
The Chernobyl Disaster
The Titanic Disaster
The Hindenburg Disaster
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"Please put the light out, James," were the final words said by what "Trust-Buster" former American president to his butler?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Benjamin Harrison
William Henry Harrison
Theodore Roosevelt
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The quote, "Never yet has death been scared away by screaming," was the final utterance of Timur who was the Khan of what empire?
Israel
Jordan
Iran
Mongolia
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What author of The Prince made the following prolonged quote as his final words? "I desire to go to Hell, and not to Heaven. In the former place I shall enjoy the company of popes, kings, and princes, while in the latter are only beggars, monks, hermits, and apostles."
Nicholas Flamel
Niccolo Machiavelli
Nick Cardian
Nicrum Vaerghus
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What author of books like The Metamorphosis and The Castle gave the following final words when his doctors refused to euthanize him? "Kill me, or else you are a murderer."
Franz Kafka
Jack London
O. Henry
Marcel Proust
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What privateer and explorer who constantly betrayed the British and Spanish crowns said, "What dost thou fear?! Strike, man! Strike!" to his executioner as his last words?
Vasco de Gama
William Penn
Walter Raleigh
Sir Francis Drake
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What artistic mastermind who painted the Sistine Chapel gave the final words, "But I'm still learning," as he lay dying?
Michelangelo
Dante
Leonardo da Vinci
El Greco
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