Famous Last Words
Test your audience on the final words of famous folks real and fictional in this trivia game.
15 questions · Published June 2, 2025
Trivia questions (5 of 15)
- Multiple Choice
1. What historical dictator famously uttered the final words, "Et tu, Brute?"
History remembers Julius Caesar as saying, "et tu, Brute?" Which means, "and you, Brutus?" In reference to his cousin stabbing him. However, this comes from Shakespeare's play about him, and his real last words were reported to be, "And you, my child?"
- Multiple Choice
2. What famous blue-eyed crooner won a lot in life, but ended with the last words, "I'm losing"?
Sadly, Frank Sinatra suffered a massive heart attack in May of 1998, and said these final words to his wife, Barbara, while lying in his hospital bed.
- Multiple Choice
3. What 1990s band ends their final studio album "In Utero" with the line, "All in all is all we are"?
Nirvana's lead singer, Kurt Cobain, died just seven months after the September 1993 release of their "In Utero" album, ending the career of the band.
- Multiple Choice
4. What hero of the Underground Railroad spent their last moments singing "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot"?
While Harriet Tubman spent her last moments singing the spiritual song, she also told her family, "Give my love to the churches. Tell the women to stand firm. I go to prepare a place for you."
- Multiple Choice
5. What famous soothsayer predicted his death in 1566 by saying "Tomorrow, at sunrise, I shall no longer be here"?
Nostradamus, the renowned French astrologer and physician, is famous for his book of predictions called "Les Prophéties."
The prediction of his own death in 1566 is one of the most famous anecdotes about him. True to his prediction, he was found deceased the following morning.
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