Hannibal Rising Trivia Quiz

Answer: Lithuania

The beginning of the film shows a smiling Hannibal with his family living in Lecter Castle, Lithuania. Fortunes are soon to change as the country becomes a battle field.

Answer: Mischa

Hannibal's younger sister, Mischa suffers a horrible death at the hands of some Lithuanian soldiers. Starving and desperate for food, the soldiers resort to cannibalism. This particularly traumatic event renders Hannibal mute and psychologically scarred for life.

Answer: an orphanage

Ravaged by the conflict between the Soviets and Germans, the country has been left with many homeless children. Lecter Castle has been converted into an orphanage. An older boy taunts Hannibal saying, "This is not your father's house anymore. It's the People's Orphanage... and you're just one more orphan."

Answer: France

Hannibal finds pictures of his aunt and uncle along with some letters. He leaves Kaunus, Lithuania, makes his way across the Soviet border and travels by train across Germany to Etampes, France. Here, he meets his widowed aunt, who treats him kindly and welcomes Hannibal into her home.

Answer: butcher

The butcher crudely insults Lady Murasaki and Hannibal leaps to her defense. Hannibal savagely beats the butcher and he is detained by the police. The police are sympathetic with Hannibal stating that, "The butcher was Vichy, a collaborator with the German occupation. He's much hated and I can deal with him."

Answer: He beheads the butcher.

Inspired by his aunt's tales of Samurai warriors and drawings of their victim's heads, Hannibal seeks out the butcher and demands an apology. An apology from the butcher not forthcoming, Hannibal first strikes the butcher several times with the sword and then beheads him.

Answer: sodium thiopental

Having observed how well the injection of sodium thiopental (sodium pentathol) has worked on a prisoner, Hannibal injects himself with the serum. It allows him to recall in vivid detail the events that transpired in the lodge. He returns to Kaunus to take care of the remains of his sister and discovers the name tags of the soldiers in the lodge.

Answer: He owns a restaurant.

Hannibal discovers that Kolnas is running a restaurant in Fontainebleau under the name of Kleber. Hannibal and his aunt visit the restaurant and they see Kolnas with his family. Kolnas' daughter is wearing Mischa's bracelet. Hannibal slips a dog tag into Kolnas' daughter's pocket.

This alarms the remaining soldiers. Kolnas tells Grutas that the boy's name is Hannibal Lecter. "You know him?" Grutas says, "So do you. We had dinner with him during the war."

Answer: Yes

Grutas was holding Lady Murasaki at Kolnas' restaurant. Hannibal knows the location because he can hear the birds chirping in the restaurant while on the phone with Grutas. Hannibal surprises Kolnas at the restaurant and promises to not harm his children if Kolnas will disclose the whereabouts of his aunt. Hannibal tells Kolnas, "I will spare your life for the sake of the children." He then places his gun on a hot stove, waiting to see if Kolnas will pick it up.

As expected, Kolnas tries to pick up the gun but Hannibal is ready for him and kills him with his ceremonial knife.

Answer: Canada

Grutas tells Hannibal that Grentz may be found living in a village in Canada, near Saskatoon. Lady Murasaki pleads with Hannibal to turn Grutas over to Popil. Hannibal says, "He ate my sister." Grutas laughs and says, "So did you ... you ate her, too." Infuriated by this knowledge, Hannibal carves an "M" into Grutas' chest. Hannibal finds Grentz in the hamlet of Melville.

He confronts Grentz saying, "I have come to collect a head."