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Lesser Known Serial Killers Trivia Quiz

Everybody has heard of Bundy, Dahmer and Gacy, but the world, sadly, is full of other lesser known serial killers. Let's see if you know them...

A multiple-choice quiz by meshkenet. Estimated time: 7 mins.

Author
meshkenet

Time
7 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
46,087

Updated
Apr 01 23

# Qns
15

Difficulty
Difficult

Avg Score
7 / 15

Plays
4068

Awards
Top 35% Quiz

Last 3 plays: Guest 172 (6/15), Guest 142 (11/15), Guest 24 (8/15).

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Question 1 of 15

1. This Russian cannibal had his dentist fit him with metal teeth because, as he said, 'they look good'. Hint

Lucian Staniak

Andrei Chikatilo

Nicolai Dzhumagaliev

Gennadiy Mikasavitch

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Question 2 of 15

2. The 'Moors Murderers', who were fervent admirers of the Nazis, were convicted of three murders. What were their names? Hint

Lidia Sherman and Billy Glaze

Amelia Dyer and Graham Young

Ian Brady and Myra Hindley

Martha Beck and Raymond Fernandez

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Question 3 of 15

3. 'For heaven's sake catch me before I kill more I cannot control myself'. Which very disturbed young killer wrote this on one of his victim's bedroom wall? Hint

Jesse Pomeroy

Harry Powers

Herbert Mullin

William Heirens

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Question 4 of 15

4. This 'Docteur Guillotine' offered to smuggle Jews to safety during the Second World War. Instead, he killed them and grew rich on their belongings. Hint

Henri Desire Landru

Thierry Dumoulin

Joseph Vacher

Dr. Marcel Petiot

5. This 'Vampire of Sacramento' spent most of his life going in and out of mental institutions. After his last release from the mental hospital he murdered six people because, in his twisted mind, he needed to drink human blood to survive. Hint

Richard Chase

Harvey Murray Glatman

Richard Ramirez

Robert Hansen

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Question 6 of 15

6. This German killer shot his victims only when the bells of the Nuremberg Church were ringing, covering the sound of his gun. He was therefore nicknamed the 'Midday Murderer'. Hint

Werner Boost

Fritz Rudloff

Ludwig Tessnow

Klaus Gosman

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Question 7 of 15

7. There was Jack the Ripper and then there was Jack the Stripper... What was the common link between their victims?

They were over the age of 50

They were prostitutes

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Question 8 of 15

8. What Hungarian village was the site of a widespread murder epidemic following the First World War? Hint

Czinkota

Shoenleben

Brylsky

Nagyrev

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Question 9 of 15

9. Known as the 'Red Spider', this killer stalked Poland during the late 60s, killing more than twenty young woman. He earned his nickname from letters he sent to the police, each written in red ink. Hint

Charles Sobhraj

Wladislaw Mazurkiewicz

Lucian Staniak

Bruno Ludke

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Question 10 of 15

10. This German gave himself the nickname 'Der Best Totmacher' (the best death-maker) and is recorded as saying: 'Every man has his passion; some like whist, I prefer killing people'. Hint

Peter Kurten

Rudolf Pleil

Fritz Haarman

Heinrich Pommerencke

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Question 11 of 15

11. These two body-snatchers resorted to murder to provide corpses to be sold to a renowned anatomist during the 1820s. They were both named William, but what were their last names? Hint

Burke and Hare

Norris and Bittaker

Buono and Bianchi

Bolber and Petrillo

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Question 12 of 15

12. One of the very few female serial killers, this prostitute claimed she killed all of her male victims in self defense. The judge did not believe her, and she was sentenced to death on January 27th 1990. Hint

Aileen Wuornos

Nannie Doss

Tyria Moore

Dorothea Puente

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Question 13 of 15

13. Better known as the 'Black Panther', this killer always dressed in an army camouflage suit, white gloves and a black hood. Hint

Oswald Nelson

Donald Glover

Donald Neilson

Leslie Neilson

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Question 14 of 15

14. What kind of enterprise did the Gonzales sisters run, using it to kill more than eighty young girls in the 1920s in Mexico? Hint

hotel

brothel

ranch

school

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Question 15 of 15

15. Which alias was used by Hermann Webster Mudgett? Hint

Dr Edward William Pritchard

Joseph Franklin

Jesse Sitting Crow

H. H. Holmes

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. This Russian cannibal had his dentist fit him with metal teeth because, as he said, 'they look good'.

Answer: Nicolai Dzhumagaliev

Described as a perfect gentleman, Dzhumagaliev (known later as 'Metal Fangs') enjoyed escorting unfortunate young and pretty women on strolls by the river, to their deaths.

2. The 'Moors Murderers', who were fervent admirers of the Nazis, were convicted of three murders. What were their names?

Answer: Ian Brady and Myra Hindley

Probably one of the most written-about cases in modern criminal history, they were arrested after inviting Myra's brother-in-law to witness one of their torture-murders. He turned them in the morning after.

3. 'For heaven's sake catch me before I kill more I cannot control myself'. Which very disturbed young killer wrote this on one of his victim's bedroom wall?

Answer: William Heirens

Heirens was only sixteen years old when he killed his three victims. He later blamed the killings on another personality named 'George Murman'.

4. This 'Docteur Guillotine' offered to smuggle Jews to safety during the Second World War. Instead, he killed them and grew rich on their belongings.

Answer: Dr. Marcel Petiot

Dr Petiot was the one... Landru killed his would-be wives, Vacher was a drifter who killed women and children in the 1890s, and Dumoulin killed old women during robberies.

Answer: Richard Chase

Among the claims made by Chase to doctors, my personal favorite is when he pretended to be suffering from cardiac arrest because someone had stolen his pulmonary artery...

6. This German killer shot his victims only when the bells of the Nuremberg Church were ringing, covering the sound of his gun. He was therefore nicknamed the 'Midday Murderer'.

Answer: Klaus Gosman

Gosman was a student in theology when he committed his first murder.

7. There was Jack the Ripper and then there was Jack the Stripper... What was the common link between their victims?

Answer: They were prostitutes

Neither one was ever caught...

8. What Hungarian village was the site of a widespread murder epidemic following the First World War?

Answer: Nagyrev

Many wives poisoned their husbands or lovers with arsenic provided by the local midwife during a 15 year period after the Great War.

Answer: Lucian Staniak

As did many other serial killers, Staniak sent letters to brag about his crime and to taunt the police. Unfortunately for him, the red paint he used as ink for those letters helped the police to track him down.

10. This German gave himself the nickname 'Der Best Totmacher' (the best death-maker) and is recorded as saying: 'Every man has his passion; some like whist, I prefer killing people'.

Answer: Rudolf Pleil

Charged with nine murders, Pleil often complained during his trial that it was not nine but twenty-five. After being convicted, he applied for the job of professional hangman, listing his murders as experience in that field.

11. These two body-snatchers resorted to murder to provide corpses to be sold to a renowned anatomist during the 1820s. They were both named William, but what were their last names?

Answer: Burke and Hare

Their way of killing was later renamed 'Burking'.

Answer: Aileen Wuornos

Though she was only convicted of six murders, it is believed she may have committed many more along the Florida highways.

13. Better known as the 'Black Panther', this killer always dressed in an army camouflage suit, white gloves and a black hood.

Answer: Donald Neilson

Neilson was convicted of four cases of murder, and sentenced to four life sentences, plus sixty-one years for kidnapping.

14. What kind of enterprise did the Gonzales sisters run, using it to kill more than eighty young girls in the 1920s in Mexico?

Answer: brothel

The Gonzales sisters killed the girls when they lost their looks, got ill or became too troublesome to work for them. Most of the victims were young teenagers who were kidnapped and forced to prostitute themselves. As a sideline, the sisters also murdered transient workers coming back from the US with heavy wallets.

15. Which alias was used by Hermann Webster Mudgett?

Answer: H. H. Holmes

This madman built a castle, complete with hidden rooms and secret passages, in which he killed an unknown number of victims (it is believed up to 250), particularly during the Chicago World Fair.

Source: Author meshkenet

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