Statistics for British History - How Did They Die?

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  • The average score is 10 of 15

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QuestionAnswer% Correct
Princess Diana (1997)Car crash in Paris while fleeing paparazzi
99%
Anne Boleyn (1536)Beheaded at the Tower of London
95%
Amy Winehouse (2011)Alcohol poisoning
86%
William Wallace (1305)Hanged, drawn, and quartered
76%
Captain James Cook (1779)Killed by Hawaiians while trying to kidnap their chief
71%
Guy Fawkes (1606)Neck broken during hanging
70%
Alan Turing (1954)Suicide via cyanide poisoning
70%
Jane Seymour (1537)Complications from childbirth
69%
Thomas Becket (1170)Killed by swordsmen after Henry II implied, sort of, that he wanted him dead
64%
Richard III (1485)Halberd to the head at the Battle of Bosworth Field
63%
Virginia Woolf (1941)Suicide by drowning
62%
Richard the Lionheart (1199)Shot with a crossbow in France
51%
Henry Hudson (1611)Marooned in Hudson Bay by mutinous crew
41%
Sir Walter Raleigh (1618)Beheaded in London
35%
King George V (1936)Euthanized by doctors
24%

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