Q 01/05

Who directed the 1927 Ripper-inspired film The Lodger?

A) Fritz Lang

B) Alfred Hitchcock

C) F. W. Murnau

D) D. W. Griffith

Answer · why

B) Alfred Hitchcock

Alfred Hitchcock. His film came from a 1913 novel in which a couple begin to suspect their quiet lodger of a string of killings, a story filmed severa...

Q 02/05

In which part of London did the Ripper operate?

A) Southwark

B) The East End

C) The West End

D) Kensington

Answer · why

B) The East End

The East End. All the killings fell within about a mile of one another around Whitechapel and Spitalfields, which is one reason many think the killer ...

Q 03/05

Besides Jack the Ripper, what other nickname did the police files and press give the killer?

A) The Whitechapel Butcher

B) The Phantom

C) The Midnight Slasher

D) Leather Apron

Answer · why

D) Leather Apron

Leather Apron. Police arrested John Pizer, a local bootmaker known by the name, but his alibis held, and he then appeared at an inquest to clear himse...

Q 04/05

Who is widely believed to have written the letter that coined the name 'Jack the Ripper'?

A) A police detective

B) A music-hall comedian

C) The killer himself

D) A journalist

Answer · why

D) A journalist

A journalist. Two police chiefs later wrote that they saw a newspaperman's hand in it, one claiming to know exactly who, and most researchers still tr...

Q 05/05

Which woman stabbed 39 times do some count as the Ripper's first victim?

A) Emma Smith

B) Martha Tabram

C) Annie Millwood

D) Alice McKenzie

Answer · why

B) Martha Tabram

Martha Tabram. Police at the time counted her in the series, but she was stabbed rather than slashed across the throat, so many later writers leave he...