# Weekend Feud: Let's Get Morbid! by MadTheSwine \[Game Over\] **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [December 6, 2008, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weekend-feud-lets-get-morbid-by-madtheswine-game-over/475939 "2008-12-06T02:09:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Natty\_Bumppo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e480ec/32.png) [@Natty\_Bumppo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Natty_Bumppo)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2008, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weekend-feud-lets-get-morbid-by-madtheswine-game-over/475939/41 "2008-12-06T14:28:22Z")
1. Freddie Mercury 2. Arch Duke Ferdinand 3. Richie Valens 4. Ted Bundy 5. Heath Ledger 6. Ernest Hemingway 7. Gandalf 8. Passed Away 9. Ayrton Senna 10. Death warmed over ---
**Author:** ![Windwalker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/5e9695/32.png) [@Windwalker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Windwalker)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2008, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weekend-feud-lets-get-morbid-by-madtheswine-game-over/475939/42 "2008-12-06T14:39:50Z")
1. Freddy Mercury 2. Julius Caesar 3. John Denver 4. Ted Bundy 5. Marilyn Monroe 6. Kurt Cobain 7. Bambi’s mother 8. Pass Away 9. Princess Diana 10. Merchant of Death ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2008, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weekend-feud-lets-get-morbid-by-madtheswine-game-over/475939/43 "2008-12-06T14:47:36Z")
Looks like Rock Hudson and Freddy Mercury are the big two for the first question (thank god I didn’t say Liberace) – do you think there’s a generational difference? ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2008, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weekend-feud-lets-get-morbid-by-madtheswine-game-over/475939/44 "2008-12-06T14:54:58Z")
1. Rock Hudson 2. Gandhi 3. Big Bopper 4. Son of Sam 5. River Phoenix 6. Kurt Cobain 7. Bambi’s mom 8. Pushing up daisies 9. Dale Earnhardt 10. Sudden Death ---
**Author:** ![Sparky812](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Sparky812](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sparky812)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2008, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weekend-feud-lets-get-morbid-by-madtheswine-game-over/475939/45 "2008-12-06T14:59:13Z")
1. Freddy Mercury 2. Gandhi 3. John Denver 4. John Wayne Gacy 5. Bon Scott 6. Marilyn Monroe 7. Willy Loman 8. Six feet under 9. Jim Croce 10. Til death doo us part ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2008, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weekend-feud-lets-get-morbid-by-madtheswine-game-over/475939/46 "2008-12-06T15:13:22Z")
> [@twickster](#): > > Looks like Rock Hudson and Freddy Mercury are the big two for the first question (thank god I didn’t say Liberace) – do you think there’s a generational difference? Maybe. I was going back and forth between those two. Actually, my first FIRST thought was Arthur Ashe but I thought no one would say him… ETA: I’m 24. I mainly chose Mercury because I figured we’d have a lot of Queen fans here. ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2008, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weekend-feud-lets-get-morbid-by-madtheswine-game-over/475939/47 "2008-12-06T15:41:31Z")
I really thought John Lennon for #2 was going to be close to a conch. I guess it is because it happened in the USA is the reason behind the low responses. I think it is the most famous successful assassination in my lifetime. ---
**Author:** ![Key\_Lime\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/48db29/32.png) [@Key\_Lime\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Key_Lime_Guy)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2008, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weekend-feud-lets-get-morbid-by-madtheswine-game-over/475939/48 "2008-12-06T16:08:55Z")
1. Rock Hudson 2. Idi Amin 3. JFK Jr. 4. Ted Bundy 5. Chris Farley 6. Kurt Cobain 7. Don Vito Corleone 8. bought the farm 9. Princess Diana 10. death becomes her ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2008, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weekend-feud-lets-get-morbid-by-madtheswine-game-over/475939/49 "2008-12-06T16:17:42Z")
> [@notfrommensa](#): > > I really thought John Lennon for #2 was going to be close to a conch. I guess it is because it happened in the USA is the reason behind the low responses. > > I think it is the most famous successful assassination in my lifetime. I think of that as a murder, not an assassination. I guess I only use “assassination” for political figures. I was waffling between Rock Hudson and Freddie Mercury. I remember when the Rock Hudson news came out it was a big deal because he was, as I remember it, the first “big name” to die of AIDS. So, while Mercury’s death meant more to me, Hudson’s was the first I thought of. I’m 37. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2008, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weekend-feud-lets-get-morbid-by-madtheswine-game-over/475939/50 "2008-12-06T16:58:35Z")
1. Rock Hudson 2. Mohandas Gandhi 3. The Big Bopper (J.P. Richardson) 4. Jeffrey Dahmer 5. Jim Morrison 6. Sylvia Plath 7. John Henry 8. Passed away 9. Dale Earnhardt 10. The Black Death 11. Might as well go with someone who died in the crash that claimed Holly 12. The steel-drivin’ man ---
**Author:** ![Sateryn76](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@Sateryn76](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sateryn76)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2008, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weekend-feud-lets-get-morbid-by-madtheswine-game-over/475939/51 "2008-12-06T17:01:21Z")
1. Rock Hudson 2. Franz Ferdinand 3. Patsy Cline 4. Jeffery Dahmer 5. River Phoenix 6. Spalding Grey 7. Citizen Kane 8. Passed away 9. Jayne Mansfield 10. Death trap ---
**Author:** ![want2know](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/50afbb/32.png) [@want2know](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/want2know)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2008, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weekend-feud-lets-get-morbid-by-madtheswine-game-over/475939/52 "2008-12-06T17:02:53Z")
1. Rock Hudson 2. Archduke Ferdinand 3. Jim Croce 4. Ted Bundy 5. John Bonham 6. Kurt Cobain 7. Dumbledore in “Half-Blood Prince” 8. Bought the farm 9. Jayne Mansfield 10. Death & taxes ---
**Author:** ![Avarie537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/48db29/32.png) [@Avarie537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Avarie537)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2008, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weekend-feud-lets-get-morbid-by-madtheswine-game-over/475939/53 "2008-12-06T17:10:33Z")
1. Ryan White 2. John Lennon 3. Paul Wellstone (US Senator) 4. Charles Manson 5. Chrids Farley 6. Marilyn Monroe 7. Superman 8. passed away 9. Dale Earnhardt 10. near-death experience ---
**Author:** ![Paintcharge](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/paintcharge/32/7946_2.png) [@Paintcharge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paintcharge)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2008, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weekend-feud-lets-get-morbid-by-madtheswine-game-over/475939/54 "2008-12-06T17:16:43Z")
1. Rock Hudson 2. Archduke Ferdinand 3. The Big Bopper 4. John Wayne Gacy 5. John Belushi 6. Hemingway 7. Hamlet 8. Passed away 9. Dale Earnhart 10. Death and taxes ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2008, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weekend-feud-lets-get-morbid-by-madtheswine-game-over/475939/55 "2008-12-06T17:20:14Z")
> [@Key\_Lime\_Guy](#): > > 1. Idi Amin Just for the record, he [died of natural causes](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idi_Amin#Amin.27s_Death), although you’ll get credit if anyone matches your answer. ---
**Author:** ![42fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/4/b487fb/32.png) [@42fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/42fish)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2008, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weekend-feud-lets-get-morbid-by-madtheswine-game-over/475939/56 "2008-12-06T17:40:30Z")
> [@Rebo](#): > > 1. Name someone who died from AIDS. > 2. A non-American who was assassinated. > 3. Besides Buddy Holly someone who died in a flying machine. > 4. A serial killer. > 5. Someone who died from alcohol/drug abuse. > 6. A famous suicide. > 7. A death of a fictional character from a book, song or movie. > 8. Other than “kick the bucket,” another way to say someone is dead or has died. > 9. Besides James Dean, name someone who died in an automobile. > 10. A phrase that includes the word “death.” 1. Freddie Mercury 2. Mahatma Gandhi 3. John Denver 4. Ted Bundy 5. Jimi Hendrix 6. Kurt Cobain 7. Boromir (Lord of the Rings) 8. Bought the farm 9. Princess Diana 10. 'Til death do you part ---
**Author:** ![ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chockfullofheadygoodness/32/511_2.png) [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2008, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weekend-feud-lets-get-morbid-by-madtheswine-game-over/475939/57 "2008-12-06T17:44:44Z")
1. Rock Hudson 2. Franz Ferdinand 3. The Big Bopper 4. Ted Bundy 5. Keith Moon 6. Kurt Cobain 7. Willy Loman 8. “Croak” 9. Jayne Mansfield 10. Til death do us part 6 - Either him or Sylvia Plath 7 - Come on, Miller named the play after his death 9 - Well, there’s Paul McCartney, if you want to play along ---
**Author:** ![Key\_Lime\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/48db29/32.png) [@Key\_Lime\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Key_Lime_Guy)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2008, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weekend-feud-lets-get-morbid-by-madtheswine-game-over/475939/58 "2008-12-06T17:48:21Z")
> [@Sternvogel](#): > > Just for the record, he [died of natural causes](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idi_Amin#Amin.27s_Death), although you’ll get credit if anyone matches your answer. Wow, that’s a bizarre misconception to have lodged in my brain… ---
**Author:** ![robardin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/43a26b/32.png) [@robardin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robardin)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2008, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weekend-feud-lets-get-morbid-by-madtheswine-game-over/475939/59 "2008-12-06T18:30:46Z")
1. Keith Haring 2. Gandhi 3. Roberto Clemente 4. Ted Bundy 5. John Belushi 6. Marilyn Monroe 7. Charlotte, from _Charlotte’s Web_ 8. Pushing up the daisies 9. Princess Diana 10. “Give me Liberty, or give me Death!” ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2008, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weekend-feud-lets-get-morbid-by-madtheswine-game-over/475939/60 "2008-12-06T18:34:09Z")
> [@robardin](#): > > 1. Charlotte, from _Charlotte’s Web_ Woo hoo! I’m not alone! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weekend-feud-lets-get-morbid-by-madtheswine-game-over/475939.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weekend-feud-lets-get-morbid-by-madtheswine-game-over/475939.md?page=4)