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

Hannibal Lecter ranked first on the AFI's 2003 list of screen villains, ahead of Norman Bates and Darth Vader; Anthony Hopkins won the Best Actor Osca...

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

Red Dragon (1981) introduced Lecter in a supporting role; it 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

Thomas Harris's novels Hannibal and Hannibal Rising make Lecter the Lithuanian-born son of an aristocrat, raised at Lecter Castle until his family is ...

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

Ed Gein, the Plainfield, Wisconsin killer arrested in 1957, inspired Robert Bloch, who lived about 40 miles away, to write the 1959 novel Psycho that ...

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

David Prowse, a former bodybuilder and weightlifter, wore the Vader suit in all three original films; Sebastian Shaw played the unmasked Anakin in Ret...