Q 01/05

Jack the Ripper's murders took place in 1888 in which district of London?

A) Bloomsbury

B) Lambeth

C) Whitechapel

D) Southwark

Answer · why

C) Whitechapel

The 1888 murders happened in Whitechapel, in London's East End; the killer was never identified, and the name comes from the 'Dear Boss' letter sent t...

Q 02/05

The Ripper victims generally accepted as linked are known collectively by what name?

A) The canonical five

B) The Whitechapel five

C) The autumn five

D) The Ripper five

Answer · why

A) The canonical five

The canonical five are Mary Ann Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Catherine Eddowes and Mary Jane Kelly, killed between 31 August and 9 Novemb...

Q 03/05

The 'From Hell' letter sent to George Lusk of the local vigilance committee arrived with what enclosed?

A) A lock of hair

B) A bloodstained knife

C) A victim's ring

D) Half a human kidney

Answer · why

D) Half a human kidney

The box held half a human kidney; the writer claimed to have fried and eaten the other half, supposedly taken from Catherine Eddowes, whose left kidne...

Q 04/05

Which FBI agent is usually credited with coining the English term 'serial killer' in the 1970s?

A) John Douglas

B) Robert Ressler

C) Roy Hazelwood

D) Clarice Starling

Answer · why

B) Robert Ressler

Robert Ressler of the FBI's Behavioral Science Unit popularised 'serial killer' in the mid-1970s, using 'serial homicide' in lectures from 1974; a Ger...

Q 05/05

What term describes the interval between a serial killer's separate murders?

A) Cooling-off period

B) Dormant phase

C) Latency window

D) Refractory span

Answer · why

A) Cooling-off period

A cooling-off period, a gap of weeks, months or years between killings, is what most definitions use to separate serial murder from spree and mass mur...