Hamilton was SHOT in New Jersey on the cliffs in North Bergen - however, he DIED in New York City having been rushed back across the river to his rooms on Jane Street.
The punch didn't kill him, though. He died of acute appendicitis. If the punch had anything to do with it, it was to make him dismiss the pain in his abdomen until it was too late.
In that case, the cause of death could be listed as "acute appendicitis after being gut punched". We don't know for certain what role the punch played in causing or exacerbating his illness, but AFAIK there is consensus that it did at least indirectly contribute to his death. So in my opinion, it would be wrong (or at least incomplete) to just say "acute appendicitis" without bringing up the punch.
Guy Fawkes wasn't hanged, he jumped from the gallows and broke his neck. I also just realized (when looking it up to make sure I was right) that he was executed on my birthday.
Considering he was born in 1935 even if he hadn't died in 1977, odds are that he's kicked it by now. I remember in the 1970s we were visiting my husband's grandmother who was a patient in Baptist Memorial Hospital in Memphis. We were several floors up and I looked out her window and noticed that directly across from us in another wing all the windows were covered up along the entire wing. I asked a nurse about it and she told us that Elvis was a patient and for security reasons they had given him the whole wing and covered all the windows so no one could take photos. That's the closest I ever came to him.
One fact that surprises me about this quiz is that prior to 1950 the individuals are what you may call 'World Famous' afterwards apart from a couple of obvious people they are just film stars and entertainers. Has the media taken over the making of History?
I think that, with the advent of cooperation among most governments, advances in medicine, and stronger security details, it's just a lot less likely now that world leaders will die in memorable ways. I mean, how would you clue George H.W. Bush or Konrad Adenauer? They both died of natural causes. I also think the odds of Justin Trudeau dying by snake bite are pretty low. Qaddafi and Sadat are the only famous world leaders who died in a memorable way that I can think of. Other African leaders have been assassinated, but their names are less familiar to the average person. Movie stars and rock stars stand out more now because they much more frequently die young and in memorable ways.
Benazir Bhutto was assassinated in 2007. She wasn't in power at the time but had previously been PM of Pakistan twice and was leader of the main opposition party when she was killed. I was a bit surprised she wasn't on this quiz or its sequel.
vermiciousknid, there are so many who died well before their time or in peculiar circumstances. Empedocles (at least in the myth), Alexander the Great, Cicero, Seneca, Thomas Becket, Jan Hus, Marie Antoinette, Maximilien Robespierre, John Dillinger, Anne Frank, Buddy Holly, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Salvador Allende, Alexander Litvinenko. And as a German I might add Barbarossa, Friedrich Schiller, Heinrich von Kleist, Ludwig II., Walter Rathenau, Hermann Göring, Adolf Eichmann, Benno Ohnesorg, Hanns-Martin Schleyer, Walter Lübcke.
Yitschak Rabin was assassinated in 1995, Indira Gandhi in ‘84, Rajiv Gandhi in ‘91, Olof Palme of Sweden in ‘86... all major tragedies to the nations involved, but I guess not overly central to American/British audiences so they are not in this quiz.
@camus, my comment was intended for the discussion about famous world leaders dying in a memorable way since 1950; I wasn't trying to disagree with your statement.
It's not a surname, at least it wasn't at the time. And while even in Kennedy family for example there are 4-5 really famous ones, there are dozens among Habsburgs.
In the US, ALS is often called Lou Gehrig's Disease. Gehrig was a famous Yankee baseball player who was stricken at the height of his career. He gave a famous retirement speech at the ballpark saying he was the luckiest man on earth to have lived the life he did, and he died in 1941 at the age of 37. Gary Cooper played him in the movie, Pride of the Yankees.
I know that he is less famous, but Roland Ratzenberger would also be a valid answer for Bologna 1994, as he died during the quali. In fact, Senna had an Austrian flag in his car he meant to show at the end of the race to honor Ratzenberger. Maybe Ratzenberger could be accepted too...
To be honest, I disagree with the suggestion that he's "not a famous person".
I get that he's not as famous as Senna, but he's still well-known to F1 fans (even if his only claim to fame is as "the other person who died at the same event as Senna").
Snakebite *is* a disgusting drink, but I didn't know it could kill you! I have been living somewhat dangerously as an exchange student in London, then!
(A "snakebite" is a popular drink in the UK, made with half a pint of lager, half a pint of cider, and a dash of blackcurrant. It's very sweet. That was the joke.)
I'd hardly call Ratzenberger a famous person, so I get why he is not accepted as an option. But I did have the same thought as you, and then scroll all the way down here to see if someone asked about him.
Would have got Joan of Arc if i was France instead of Rouen! Didn’t know where that place was, but i did know that there were a lot of burnings in those days, so i figured i didn’t know it
1587, Fotheringhay, beheading
1945, Berlin, suicide by gunshot
1986, Stockholm, shot
.....spend your money on our records instead;
The Forgotten Rebels, 1978
I get that he's not as famous as Senna, but he's still well-known to F1 fans (even if his only claim to fame is as "the other person who died at the same event as Senna").