Worth pointing out that we aren't sure that the "gut punch" did kill Houdini. Modern evidence suggests that blunt trauma can't directly cause appendicitis, and it's more likely he already had the condition. Whether the gut punch aggravated his condition and made it impossible for him to recover is another question altogether...
The invasion to Iraq and toppling Saddam’s government was in 2003. He hid himself away and only got captured in 2006, then executed by his Iraqi captors shortly after.
Well, actually at the time of her death she was Eva Hitler not Braun - I don't think she would have kept her maiden name since dear Adolf didn't really approve of things like that. I just entered "Hitler" to get two for the price of one.
I don't know. It's not like she's a super obscure person who happened to die that day. Most people know they died together. Hitler is obviously more famous, but Braun seems a viable answer to me.
There has to be at least 2 or 3 of those types of dumb comments on every. single. quiz. Along with "Americans are stupid, arrogant, etc" and "This quiz is so US centric waaahh".
Runner up: "Why don't you accept the exact way that MY specific country/language spells this word??" when they're on an American site that uses English.
Since when is American a race? It's quite simply a remark about the amount of people from the USA on this list. Sure, people like JFK, MLK and Lincoln are known throughout the world, but who is Earhart? Who is Custer? I've never heard of them to be honest.
Please accept more spellings for 'Gaddafi' -- there are many correct transliterations and the quiz only seems to accept one (I tried every one I could think of and still didn't get it right). Qaddafi, Gadhafi, Kadafi, Al-Qaddafi, Kaddafi, El-Gadhafi are all acceptable (some of these were used in major newspapers and some by the man himself).
Maybe we can help? Here are some I can think of that aren't on either quiz: Leonidas (480 BC, battle at Thermopylae), Claudius (54, poisoned), Marie Antoinette (1793, beheading by guillotine), Buddy Holly/Ritchie Valens/The Big Bopper (1959, plane crash), Malcolm X (1965, assassination by gunshot), Robert F. Kennedy (1968, gunshot), John Wayne (1979, stomach cancer), John Belushi (1982, overdose), Nicole Brown Simpson (1994, stabbing), JonBenet Ramsey (1996, head wound/strangulation), Chris Farley (1997, overdose), Phil Hartman (1998, gunshot), Robin Williams (2014, suicide), Chester Bennington (2017, suicide).
Surely, in the event of such a part 3, the answer for guillotine (1793) would have to be Louis XVI ! He was the king, the head of State, the figurative and actual head of a hated despotic and unjust regime that had lasted for centuries. Marie-Antoinette was an afterthought - still is, in French history. Her death sentence was a "meh, might as well". The only reason the English-speaking world cares so much about her, is that panicked English aristrocrats try to play her up as some sort of martyr to save their own asses.
Did the quiz, spent a few minutes desperately trying to think of guesses for the ones I missed and somehow didn't see the question about the bunker in Berlin until the answers came up. How is that possible? Lol
So many of these were somber/sad, but I have to admit, I cracked up just a bit when reading the causes of death of Rasputin. I mean, the guy was nearly indestructible.
yeah um , Tony Soprano aka James Gandolfini did not get executed, *sigh* I hate when I must type people's names. but FAIL is on me.. I forgot about a few of them, and missed that one due to typing the wrong name
There is a theory that Rasputin didn't actually die from the drowning but that he managed to get up from the water but later died from Hypothermia as a result of the ice cold water in the Neva river.
Rodney King also died in the similar fashion as Whitney Houston in the same year. Whitney is definitely more famous and publicized; but no American alive at the time will forget who Rodney King was.
He was an actor who ironically was famous for starring in a franchise about fast cars and people doing insanely dangerous stunts that would easily kill most people in real life.
If you do another of these, I'd suggest adding the modern assassinations of Anwar Sadat (shooting, Cairo 1981), Rajiv Gandhi (suicide bombing Tamil Nadu 1991), Yitzhak Rabin (shooting Tel Aviv 1995), and Benazir Bhutto (suicide bombing Rawalpindi 2007). From British history there are: Harold Godwinson (arrow in eye, Hastings, 1066), Richard III (battle wounds, Bosworth, 1485), and Charles I (beheading, London, 1649). Writers Virginia Woolf (drowning, Sussex, 1941), Ernest Hemingway (self-inflicted gunshot, Idaho, 1961) and Sylvia Plath (oven gas, London, 1963) are probably also all gettable. John Keats (tuberculosis, Rome, 1821) and Lord Byron (fever, Missolonghi, 1824) could work.
Runner up: "Why don't you accept the exact way that MY specific country/language spells this word??" when they're on an American site that uses English.
Paul Walker on the other hand...
my fav one