Q 01/05

Which character tops the American Film Institute's 2003 list of the 50 greatest screen villains?

A) Darth Vader

B) Norman Bates

C) Hannibal Lecter

D) The Wicked Witch of the West

Answer · why

C) Hannibal Lecter

Anthony Hopkins's Oscar-winning turn ranked first, ahead of Norman Bates and Darth Vader.

Q 02/05

The cannibal psychiatrist Dr Lecter first appeared in a small role in which 1981 Thomas Harris novel?

A) Red Dragon

B) The Silence of the Lambs

C) Black Sunday

D) Hannibal

Answer · why

A) Red Dragon

That book was filmed as Manhunter in 1986 with Brian Cox as the doctor, spelled 'Lecktor'.

Q 03/05

Thomas Harris's cannibal psychiatrist is written as having been born in which country?

A) Hungary

B) Italy

C) Lithuania

D) Austria

Answer · why

C) Lithuania

Harris said the inspiration was Alfredo Ballí Treviño, a convicted murderer he met while reporting in Mexico.

Q 04/05

Norman Bates was loosely based on which real-life killer?

A) H. H. Holmes

B) Albert Fish

C) Ed Gein

D) Ted Bundy

Answer · why

C) Ed Gein

Robert Bloch created the character for his 1959 novel Psycho, and Freddie Highmore later played a young Norman in Bates Motel.

Q 05/05

Who physically played Darth Vader in the original trilogy, with James Earl Jones as the voice?

A) Peter Mayhew

B) Sebastian Shaw

C) David Prowse

D) Bob Anderson

Answer · why

C) David Prowse

The former bodybuilder wore the suit; Sebastian Shaw appeared as the unmasked Anakin in Return of the Jedi.