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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Famous fictional cannibal, memorably portrayed by Anthony Hopkins in a 1991 film.	Hannibal Lecter	100%
Infamous real life cannibal and serial killer, the subject of a 2022 Netflix series.	Jeffrey Dahmer	85%
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	70%
Animals well known to practice sexual cannibalism, the female devouring the male after copulation.	Spiders and mantises	70%
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	65%
Well known death metal band whose music has been banned in several countries due to their graphic cover art and lyrics.	Cannibal Corpse	60%
Extinct hominid and close relative of humans, believed to have practiced cannibalism.	Neanderthals	60%
The word "Cannibal" is derived from the name of this Amerindian ethnic group, as is a sea in the Americas.	Caribs	55%
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	50%
In Greek mythology, this Titan was the father of the Olympian Gods and devoured his own children to prevent being overthrown.	Cronus	50%
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	50%
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	50%
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	45%
This Pacific island nation was known as "the Cannibal Isles" by Europeans during colonial times.	Fiji	45%
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	45%
The male of this animal will often kill and eat the young of rival males to allow it to sire its own young.	Lions	40%
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	40%
Close living relative of humans known to practice cannibalism, especially of infants.	Chimpanzees	35%
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%
1973 dystopian science fiction film about a processed food product secretly made from human beings, and featuring the famous line "________ _____ is people!".	Soylent Green	35%
Malevolent spirit from Native American folklore that can possess humans and fill them with insatiable greed and a hunger for human flesh.	Wendigo	35%
A rare, incurable, and fatal neurodegenerative disorder caused by the consumption of infected human brain tissue.	Kuru	30%
WW2 siege lasting 872 days, which resulted in some of those besieged resorting to cannibalism in order to survive.	Siege of Leningrad	30%
British pop rock/progressive soul band who had several hits in the 1980s, including "She Drives Me Crazy" and "Good Thing".	Fine Young Cannibals	25%
The Aghori are a monastic order of ascetics from this country who practice ritual cannibalism of the dead.	India	25%
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	20%
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	20%
American mountain man, Old West gunfighter and serial killer known as the Kentucky Cannibal, hanged in 1864 for his crimes.	Levi Boone Helm	10%