TRIVIA QUESTIONS: Literature

1. He enjoyed opera just as much a snack of freshly cooked human brains and didn't need a psychiatrist to tell him what was going on, after all, he was one. Which serial killer was sophisticated as well as callous?
• Hannibal Jones
• Hannibal Lecter
• Hannibal Smith
• Hannibal Hayes

2. He was the nemesis of one of our greatest literary sleuths. They locked horns many times until, fatefully, they fell together from the top of a waterfall. Which villain was part of a plot that outraged readers and prompted one of the greatest returns from the dead in literature?
• Professor Morph
• Professor Moriarty
• Professor Eauhomme
• Professor Dumbledore

3. He was an Old-Etonion with a cruel streak - even if he was literally handicapped. Although he had a gentle side, which villain was usually in a rage with a boy who refused to grow up?
• Captain Birdseye
• Captain Bligh
• Captain Pugwash
• Captain Hook

4. Robber, child abuser, murderer of a good-hearted prostitute, and who knows what would have happened if he had got hold of that poor orphan. No matter how you twist it, which inhabitant of old London Town was a total bounder?
• Bill Sikes
• Grant Mitchell
• The Phantom Raspberry Blower
• Rodney Trotter

5. She was the housekeeper from hell who nearly drove her master's new wife to suicide, but the story ended up happily when she got her comeuppance. Which female fiend had a fiery finale?
• Mrs Double Entendre
• Mrs Doyle
• Mrs Danvers
• Mrs Doubtfire

6. Characters didn't need to be mad to have appeared in this quiz, but if they were mad, well... they would still have appeared. Which military villain accepted payments from the enemy to bomb his base - and sold the morphine from the medical kits to line his own pockets?
• Milo Minderbinder
• JJ Hunsecker
• Tony Camonte
• Travis Bickle

7. He was chubby, well-dressed and charming - he was Italian after all - and with a harmless hobby, yet which villain was the brains behind a plot to deprive a rich young woman of her wealth and sanity? Twitchers everywhere were never looked at in the same light again.
• Count Drax
• Count di Canio
• Count Corleone
• Count Fosco

8. His boss thought him "honest, honest" but he was set on destroying his master's world for his own reasons. Some have been baffled by his 'motiveless malignity', but behind his smiles and jokes, which villain was pure evil?
• Iago
• Claudius
• Don John
• Aaron the Moor

9. She was a bare-footed beauty in Bohemian Paris, he was the master who could hypnotise her to sing wonderfully. Which villain had a name that has become part of the English language to describe people of a great influence?
• Leroux
• Svengali
• Machiavelli
• Socalmiguel

10. Which villain was a mysterious foreign financier who was welcomed by the toffs of London's society, until they discovered he had been swindling them?
• Caesar Enrico Bandello
• Colonel Pyncheon
• Augustus Melmotte
• Alonzo Harris