Image: Anthony Hopkins stars as Hannibal Lecter/Credit: Phil Bray/MGM Pictures/Universal Pictures/Dino DeLaurentiis
About This Quiz
This quiz is all about people who ate people for our morbid amusement in movies, shows and songs. Hannibal Lecter, Sweeney Todd, Dr. Frank-N-Furter - the gang's all here. Now can someone pass the ribs?
Songwriter Rupert Holmes, who penned the 1979 earworm, "Escape (The Piña Colada Song)" also had a Top 40 hit about cannibalism. What was it called?
"Angie"
"Timothy"
"Head For the Hills"
Sir Anthony Hopkins wasn't the first actor to portray the cannibal serial killer, Dr. Hannibal Lecter. Who beat him to the punch?
Brian Cox
Dick Miller
Harvey Keitel
In "Treehouse of Horror V," a classic Simpsons Halloween episode, Principal Skinner turns his own students into lunchmeat. Who's the first kid to die?
Jimbo Jones
Ãœter Zörker
Ralph Wiggum
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How does the evil Dr. Frank-N-Furter kill Eddie (Meat Loaf's character) before serving his corpse for dinner in 1975's "The Rocky Horror Picture Show"?
with poison
with a pickaxe
with a flamethrower
When does "Soylent Green"- a 1973 sci-fi movie about a dystopic future where mankind is forced to subsist on processed corpses - take place?
2022
2049
2525
TRUE OR FALSE: The character of Sweeney Todd existed long before Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler wrote a hit musical about him in 1979.
true
false
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Fill in the blank: The play ________ by William Shakespeare helped establish the "cannibal meat pie" storytelling cliche.
"Macbeth"
"Twelfth Night"
"Titus Andronicus"
Which of these animated sitcoms was originally pitched as a show about cannibals?
"Bob's Burgers"
"Family Guy"
"BoJack Horseman"
It's implied that one of these families ate their own kin in George R.R. Martin's "A Song of Ice and Fire" novel series (the basis for "Game of Thrones"):
the Greyjoys
the Karstarks
the Freys
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