Statistics for World History - How Did They Die?

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Question	Answer	% Correct
Adolf Hitler (1945)	Suicide by hand gun	98%
Julius Caesar (44 BC)	Stabbed in the Roman Senate	95%
Marie Antoinette (1793)	Beheaded by guillotine	94%
Marie Curie (1934)	Anemia likely caused by radiation exposure	89%
Grigori Rasputin (1916)	Poisoned, shot twice, tied up, and dumped in freezing river	85%
Joan of Arc (1431)	Burned at the stake	84%
Steve Irwin (2006)	Heart pierced by stingray barb	81%
Leonidas I of Sparta (480 BC)	Fighting the Persians at the Battle of Thermopylae	79%
Che Guevara (1967)	Summary execution in Bolivia	79%
Socrates (399 BC)	Suicide by drinking poison hemlock	77%
Mohandas Gandhi (1948)	Assassinated by a Hindu nationalist	75%
Ferdinand Magellan (1521)	Killed in Philippines after trying to convert natives	68%
Muammar Gaddafi (2011)	Killed by Libyan rebels	65%
Karl Marx (1883)	Bronchitis	55%
Jeanne Calment (1997)	Extreme old age	47%