Answers, Listress Issue 7: "Famous Last Words"


1. Match the person with his or her dying words

1.James Joyce -- (a) Does nobody understand?

2. Gertrude Stein -- (j) What is the question? If there is no question, there is no answer.

3. Douglas Fairbanks -- (h) I've never felt better.

4. Charles Darwin -- (d) I am not the least afraid to die.

5. James Thurber -- (k) God bless. . . God damn.

6. Henry James -- (g) So here it is at last, the distinguished thing.

7. Joseph Haydn -- (b) Cheer up, children. I'm all right.

8. "Dutch" Schultz (gangster) -- (c) French Canadian bean soup. I want to pay. Let them leave me alone.

9. Francois Rabelais -- (i) Draw the curtain, the farce is ended.

10. William Saroyan -- (m) Everybody has got to die, but I always felt an exception would be made in my case. Now what?

11. Henry David Thoreau -- (f) Moose. . . Indian

12. O. Henry -- (e) Turn up the lights. I don't want to go home in the dark.

13. Gabriele D'Annunzio -- (l) I'm bored, I'm bored!



2. What do the following people have in common?


1. Tom Cruise
2. Hans Christian Andersen
3. Lee Harvey Oswald
4. Greg Louganis
5. Gen. George S. Patton
6. Cher

answer: They're all dyslexics



3.Match the following actors with the roles they turned down:


1. Marlon Brando -- (g) Frankie in "The Man With the Golden Arm"
2. Paul Muni --(i) Roy Earle in "High Sierra"
3. Robert Redford -- (f) Ben Braddock in "The Graduate"
4. George Raft -- (b) Sam Spade in "Casablanca"
5. Hedy Lamarr -- (e) Ilsa in "Casablanca"
6. Bette Davis -- (c) Scarlett O'Hara in "Gone With the Wind"
7. James Cagney -- (h) Alfred P. Doolittle in "My Fair Lady"
8. Elvis Presley -- (d) John Norman in "A Star is Born"
9. Gary Cooper -- (j) Rhett Butler in "Gone With the Wind"
10. Dustin Hoffman -- (a) Rick Decard in "Blade Runner"


The winner was Ann Hope.

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