The Post 'Famous Last Words' Quiz: Answers
Created | Updated Aug 27, 2012
How well did you know your famous last words?
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The Post 'Famous Last Words' Quiz
A. Where is my clock?
Salvador Dali. Maybe the great painter was afraid it was melting.
B. French Canadian bean soup... I want to pay, let them leave me alone...
Dutch Schultz. Dutch Schultz, whose real name was Arthur Flegenheimer, was a notorious gangster. He'd been shot, and he wasn't making a lot of sense, which made things hard for the police stenographer who was recording his dying verbiage.
C. This is absurd! This is absurd!
Sigmund Freud. Sometimes, Dr Freud, it just is was it is.
D. Strike the tent.
Robert E Lee. The famous general must have been ready to pull up stakes and move on to a better place.
E. Don't disturb my circles!
Archimedes. A rude soldier was disturbing the great mathematician at work. Unfortunately, Archimedes didn't get to finish what he was working on.
F. I told you I was ill.
Spike Milligan. Milligan thought this one up ahead of time, and had it carved on his tombstone. Actually, it says it in Irish, because the Chichester diocese thought it was frivolous and wouldn't approve it otherwise.
G. Tomorrow, I shall no longer be here.
Nostradamus. Being a seer, he just had to have the last word. At least that prediction came true.
H. Kaputt.
According to Sergeant Ted Smout of the Australian Medical Corps, it was Manfred von Richthofen. The Red Baron had just crashed his Fokker, you see.
I. Pardon me, sir. I did not do it on purpose.
Marie Antoinette. The poor queen had just stepped on her executioner's foot. Polite to the last, you have to admire that.
J. You be good. See you tomorrow. I love you.
Alex, the grey parrot.You knew that, didn't you? Alex, an African grey, worked with Dr Irene Pepperberg for thirty years. His premature death at only 31 was a setback for research into parrot intelligence, but Dr Pepperberg has claimed that Alex was as clever as a five-year-old human.
