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  1. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s "Free at last" epitaph was taken from a song, famously quoted at the end of his "I have a dream" speech, given in which year?
  2. 1963
  3. A local diocese would not allow Spike Milligan’s desired epitaph ("I told you I was ill") to be inscribed in English. Into which language was it translated?
  4. Gaelic
  5. Which poet’s headstone reads: "Cast a cold eye/ On life, on death./ Horseman, pass by!"?
  6. W. B. Yeats
  7. Voice actor Mel Blanc’s epitaph is: "That’s all folks", the signature Looney Tunes sign-off made famous by one of his characters, Porky Pig.
  8. True
  9. The gravestone of Scout Movement founder Robert Baden-Powell bears a trail sign. What does it mean?
  10. I have gone home
  11. The tombstone of outlaw Jesse James states that he was: "Murdered by a traitor and a coward whose name is not worthy to appear here." Who was this "coward"?
  12. Robert "Bob" Ford
  13. Which funnyman supposedly suggested this epitaph for himself, but never actually used it: "On the whole, I would rather be in Philadelphia."?
  14. W. C. Fields
  15. Edgar Allan Poe’s tombstone carries a line from his narrative poem The Raven. When was this poem first published?
  16. 1845
  17. Which literary figure’s epitaph warns of a curse on any person who moves his bones?
  18. William Shakespeare
  19. A nod to his life in cinema, Jack Lemmon’s grave marker simply reads: "JACK LEMMON in". In which film did he play lonely office worker C. C. Baxter?
  20. The Apartment
  21. Which famous architect’s epitaph translates as: "Reader if you seek his monument – look around you"?
  22. Christopher Wren
  23. Which American President’s burial room carries the inscription: "Now he belongs to the ages."?
  24. Abraham Lincoln
  25. Which author wrote in the preface to his novel The War in the Air that his epitaph would have to be: "I told you so. You damned fools."?
  26. H. G. Wells
  27. The shared headstone of J. R. R. Tolkien and his wife Edith is engraved with the names of two of his Middle-Earth characters.
  28. True
  29. From which of his novels is F. Scott Fitzgerald’s epitaph taken: "So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."?
  30. The Great Gatsby
  31. Which Rat Pack crooner’s gravestone features the name of one of his songs: "The best is yet to come"?
  32. Frank Sinatra
  33. The poet John Keats’s epitaph states: "Here lies one whose name was writ in…
  34. Water
  35. Which aviator has the epitaph: "If I take wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea"?
  36. Charles Lindbergh
  37. Which American writer, who died in 1994, has: "Don’t try" on his grave marker?
  38. Charles Bukowski
  39. Which English poet penned the following epitaph: "When I am dead, I hope it will be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read."?
  40. Hilaire Belloc

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