BB 1/19/16

Good morning Phoenix and welcome to Trivia Tuesday! Since there’s been so many celebrity deaths already this year, our trivia today will be about bizarre deaths of famous people.

• Alexander I of Greece - king of the Hellenes 1917–20: 1920 --- died October 25, from blood poisoning after being bitten by his gardener's pet monkey.
• Attila the Hun - 453 AD --- bled to death from a nosebleed on his wedding night.
• Sir Francis Bacon: 1626 --- pneumonia. He was experimenting with freezing a chicken by stuffing it with snow.
• Vic Morrow – actor: 1982 --- helicopter accident on the set of "Twilight Zone - The Movie."
• Sharon Tate, Actress and wife of director Roman Polanski: 1969 --- murdered by Charles Manson and his followers.
• Ludwig van Beethoven: 1827 --- cirrhosis of the liver
• Salvatore "Sonny" Bono: 1998 --- crashed into a tree while skiing.
• Jim Fixx - made jogging popular: 1984 --- died of a heart attack . . . while jogging.

And there’s many more. Moral of the story: Stay away from someone’s pet monkey, don’t stuff a chicken with snow, and steer away from trees when you ski.

Have a fangtastic day my friends! <3 Brock V"""V