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Dying words

Whose final words were the following ones?
In some cases, the quotes may be apocryphal.
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Last updated: November 25, 2020
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1. "Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit"
Jesus
Buddha
Zoroaster
Muhammad
According to Luke 23:46: "Jesus cried with a loud voice and said, 'Father, into your hands I entrust my spirit.' Saying this, he breathed his last." The gospel of John has "It is finished" as the last words of Jesus.
2. "You too, my child?"
Bruce Lee
George H. W. Bush
Julius Caesar
Eric the Red
Historian Suetonius reports that bystanders claimed those words, uttered in Greek (“Kai su, teknon?”), were Caesar's final ones. He doesn't give credit to the story, though. The popular "Et tu Brute?" was made up by Shakespeare.
3. "I'm bored with it all."
Stalin
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Charles de Gaulle
Winston Churchill
Churchill didn’t recover from his eighth stroke, in 1965. He spent most of his last days in coma, and said his last words to his son-in-law.
4. "Tomorrow, at sunrise, I shall no longer be here."
Nostradamus
Isaac Newton
Joseph Smith
Francis Bacon
Michel de Nostredame's secretary claimed that he made this final prophecy on the evening of 1 July 1566. Nostradamus' gout had been worsening in the past weeks.
5. "Have I played the part well? Then applaud as I exit."
Lawrence Olivier
Augustus
Sophocles
Frank Sinatra
Acording to Suetonius' Twelve Caesars, Augustus last words referred to the play-acting and regal authority that he had put on as emperor.
6. "I have offended God and mankind because my work did not reach the quality it should have."
Leonardo da Vinci
Wolfgang A. Mozart
Vincent Van Gogh
Antoni Gaudí
Leonardo's right hand was paralyzed in the final years of his life, which caused him to leave several of his works unfinished.
7. "To the strongest."
Charlemagne
Frederick the Great
Catherine the Great
Alexander the Great
When asked in his deathbed to whom he bequeathed his kingdom, he just replied "to the strongest", which initiated a series of civil wars amongst his commanders.
8. "Why do you weep? Did you think I was immortal?"
Confucius
Qin Shi Huang
Thomas Jefferson
Louis XIV
The most powerful king of his generation, Louis died of gangrene at Versailles after a long agony..
9. "Either that wallpaper goes, or I do."
Oscar Wilde
Maria Callas
Andy Warhol
Charlie Chaplin
Meningitis had forced Wilde to spend his last weeks bedridden on a cheap hotel's room in France.
10. "I know you have come to kill me. Shoot coward, you are only going to kill a man."
Salvador Allende
Mahatma Gandhi
Che Guevara
Grigori Rasputin
Said by Che to his executioner, when he saw him entering the hut in which he was being held prisoner.
11. "My God, what's happened?"
George A. Custer
James Dean
Thomas Beckett
Diana Spencer
Diana was asking it to fireman Xavier Gourmelon, who led the response team at the crash site.
12. "The earth is suffocating . . . Swear to make them cut me open, so that I won't be buried alive."
Tycho Brahe
Ernest Hemingway
Frédéric Chopin
Mao Zedong
According to his wishes, Chopin's sister ensured that his heart was cut out before burial.
13. "Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something."
Voltaire
Groucho Marx
Tennessee Williams
Pancho Villa
Villa was surprised by seven riflemen that ambushed him on his drive home.
14. "This is no way to live!"
John D. Rockefeller
Groucho Marx
Stephen Hawking
Fyodor Dostoevsky
His gravestone bears no epitaph, but in one of his last interviews he suggested one: "Excuse me, I can't stand up."
15. "Last words are for fools who haven't said enough."
Groucho Marx
Karl Marx
Chico Marx
Harpo Marx
This was Marx's reply to a servant who had asked him if he had any last words.
7 Comments
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Level 36
Nov 25, 2020
i'm not sure
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Level 78
Nov 26, 2020
About?
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Level 39
Jun 20, 2021
About a little guy, that lives in a blue world.
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Level 63
Jun 13, 2021
This was great fun! But I can't believe I didn't spot Augustus! I know I saw that sentence on his Wikipedia page or somewhere. His last public words were something like "I found Rome of clay and I leave it to you of marble", and remembering that threw me off.
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Level 71
Jun 20, 2021
Nice quiz! Tough one. Most of these were a stab in the dark for me.
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Level 68
Jun 21, 2021
Well, I got two.
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Level 74
Sep 26, 2023
You know the answer choices make the quiz challenging when 5/15 answers are correctly guessed less than 25% of the time! I really enjoyed this and I liked the explanation below each question!