Statistics for Authors - Ways to die

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  • This quiz has been taken 420 times
  • The average score is 5 of 15

Answer Stats

YearPlaceDeathAuthor% Correct
1961Idaho, U.S.Suicide. Shot himself with his shotgun.Ernest Hemingway
78%
1910Astapovo, RussiaHe left home one winter night and took a train south. Illness forced to him stop in railway station. He died in the stationmaster's house.Leo Tolstoy
77%
1824Ottoman Empire (present-day Greece)Fever. Became a hero in Greece.Lord Byron
54%
1945Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, GermanyPossibly from typhus fever.Anne Frank
52%
1941Lewes, EnglandPut stones in the pockets of her overcoat to help drown herself in the river.Virginia Woolf
52%
1817EnglandDied at the age of 41. Possible lymphoma or Addison's disease.Jane Austen
41%
1900Paris, FranceOfficially from meningitis. His physicians claimed that it resulted from a prison injury. Some say it was from syphilisOscar Wilde
40%
1960FranceDied at the age of 46 in a car accident.Albert Camus
28%
1973EnglandBleeding ulcer and chest infection. Buried in the same grave as "Luthien"J. R. R. Tolkien
25%
1894SamoaStroke. Buried in Mount Vaea.Robert Louis Stevenson
18%
1944Mediterranean seaDisappeared; did not return from a reconnaissance missionAntoine de Saint-Exupéry
15%
1626EnglandPneumonia. The disease was contracted as a result of time spent on stuffing a fowl full of snow to see if keeping it cold would help to preserve the meat.Francis Bacon
14%
1852Moscow, RussiaOfficially he died as a result of starvation. Some say he had been buried alive.Nikolai Gogol
14%
1970Tokyo, JapanAfter an attempt of a coup d’état, he committed suicide by seppuku (a ritual samurai suicide)Yukio Mishima
12%
1983New York, U.S.Found dead in a hotel suite, choked on the lid of a bottle.Tennessee Williams
9%

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