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| Famous fictional cannibal, memorably portrayed by Anthony Hopkins in a 1991 film. | Hannibal Lecter | 91%
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| Infamous real life cannibal and serial killer, the subject of a 2022 Netflix series. | Jeffrey Dahmer | 80%
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| Animals well known to practice sexual cannibalism, the female devouring the male after copulation. | Spiders and mantises | 68%
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| German fairy tale collected by the brothers Grimm, featuring a witch who lures children into her gingerbread house in order to cook and eat them. | Hansel and Gretel | 64%
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| In Greek mythology, this Titan was the father of the Olympian Gods and devoured his own children to prevent being overthrown. | Cronus | 52%
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| The remote Korowhai people of this country are alleged to still practice ritual cannibalism to this day as a punishment for sorcery. | Papua New Guinea | 48%
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| Fictional barber who murders his customers with a straight razor and gives their corpses to Mrs. Lovett, his partner in crime, who bakes their flesh into meat pies. | Sweeney Todd | 48%
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| Infamous 1980 Italian horror film set in the Amazon. It is banned in several countries, and innovated the "found footage" style of film making. | Cannibal Holocaust | 45%
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| 1999 science fiction movie where humans are unknowingly trapped inside a simulated reality by machines and are intravenously force fed liquified human remains. | The Matrix | 45%
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| This Pacific island nation was known as "the Cannibal Isles" by Europeans during colonial times. | Fiji | 42%
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| Extinct hominid and close relative of humans, believed to have practiced cannibalism. | Neanderthals | 42%
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| Group of American pioneers who spent the winter of 1846-1847 snowbound in the Sierra Nevada mountain range, some of the migrants resorting to eating the dead in order to survive. | Donner Party | 41%
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| Well known death metal band whose music has been banned in several countries due to their graphic cover art and lyrics. | Cannibal Corpse | 39%
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| Close living relative of humans known to practice cannibalism, especially of infants. | Chimpanzees | 39%
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| 1977 horror film directed by Wes Craven and featuring a family of savage cannibals who attack a suburban family stranded in the Nevada desert. Also the subject of a 2006 remake. | The Hills Have Eyes | 36%
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| The word "Cannibal" is derived from the name of this Amerindian ethnic group, as is a sea in the Americas. | Caribs | 35%
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| Two notorious African dictators allegedly practiced cannibalism. One was the self declared emperor of the Central African Empire, and the other was president of Uganda. Can you name either one? | Jean-Bédel Bokassa or Idi Amin | 35%
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| Malevolent spirit from Native American folklore that can possess humans and fill them with insatiable greed and a hunger for human flesh. | Wendigo | 32%
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| The male of this animal will often kill and eat the young of rival males to allow it to sire its own young. | Lions | 30%
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| 1973 dystopian science fiction film about a processed food product secretly made from human beings, and featuring the famous line "________ _____ is people!". | Soylent Green | 30%
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| This U.S. president was a pilot in WW2 and was one of nine to survive being shot down during bombing raids on Chichi-jima. He escaped, but the remaining eight were executed, their livers and organs eaten by senior officers of the Imperial Japanese Army. | George H.W. Bush | 27%
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| British pop rock/progressive soul band who had several hits in the 1980s, including "She Drives Me Crazy" and "Good Thing". | Fine Young Cannibals | 26%
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| A rare, incurable, and fatal neurodegenerative disorder caused by the consumption of infected human brain tissue. | Kuru | 20%
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| The Aghori are a monastic order of ascetics from this country who practice ritual cannibalism of the dead. | India | 18%
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| WW2 siege lasting 872 days, which resulted in some of those besieged resorting to cannibalism in order to survive. | Siege of Leningrad | 18%
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| In 1972 a Uruguayan flight crashed into the Andes, the survivors resorting to eating their dead in order to survive their 72 day ordeal. Can you name the film based upon these events? | Alive | 17%
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| Scottish legend, which inspired the above movie, about a cave dwelling cannibal and his incestuous family, who waylaid travelers and are said to have eaten 1,000 people. | Sawney Bean | 15%
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| American mountain man, Old West gunfighter and serial killer known as the Kentucky Cannibal, hanged in 1864 for his crimes. | Levi Boone Helm | 2%
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