Comments on: Famous last words: the quiz

By: Tdave

Tdave — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 10:20:33 +0000

My grandfather was a wise man, a very wise man and I will always remember his last words. He said, “Don’t set that thing off in the house!”

(’tis a joke)

By: Suzanne

Suzanne — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 03:44:01 +0000

I knew the Wilde one was going to be one of them… that is my all-time favorite last line. I think W.C. Fields had a funny last one too? or maybe that was just his tombstone? maybe I am thinking of someone else.

By: jenni

jenni — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 02:04:36 +0000

100%

it would have been really hard without the extra clues.

By: calmthoughts

calmthoughts — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 23:52:49 +0000

Thank you for the extra help. Some of us needed it.

By: leofishy

leofishy — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 20:55:02 +0000

100%
I agree, the extra info helped, but it was still somewhat hard. I was shocked by my score

By: Sid Morrison

Sid Morrison — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 20:51:51 +0000

100%. It was a good quiz, but the “extra information” in each clue gave lots away.

Examples:
1) “Famous Welsh Poet”
2) “Norwegian dramatist”
3) “Union Casuality in Civil War: — hmm… only 1 is wearing a uniform and died in the right date range.

The first and last clues are better structured because they don’t include extraneous information that gives it away.

By: Drew

Drew — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 17:50:17 +0000

It was probably Billy Shakespeare. Think of the dramatic and interpretive possibilities of those four O’s! An expiration of air, four sighs of regret — read into the lines what you will.

To my mind, Hamlet was probably trying to change his mind about something or other. This reminds me of when MST3K got their hands on a terrible version of “Hamlet.” One of their lines for the Danish prince was, “Maybe I should journal.”

By: Duane

Duane — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 15:51:21 +0000

This weekend I learned that in one version of Hamlet, his famous final words (“The rest is silence”) are actually followed by four “O-groans” : “O,o,o,o.” No one really knows what the heck they’re doing there, whether somebody later down the line felt obliged to exaggerate the death, or if an actor did a particularly good dying groan and Shakey himself wrote it down, thinking it was worth keeping.