Bet You Can’t Score 20/20 On This Ultimate Wild West Movies Trivia Quiz!

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Saddle up and test your knowledge of the greatest Wild West movies ever made! This quiz features 20 questions ranging from easy riders to tough-as-nails stumpers on classic Westerns. Think you can rope in a perfect score?

20 Trivia Questions on Wild West Movies

Question 1: Who directed the 1966 Spaghetti Western classic The Good, the Bad and the Ugly?

A. John Ford
B. Sergio Leone
C. Sam Peckinpah
D. Howard Hawks

Question 2: In which year was Gary Cooper’s Oscar-winning film High Noon released?

A. 1950
B. 1952
C. 1954
D. 1956

Question 3: What is the name of the mysterious gunslinger played by Alan Ladd in Shane (1953)?

A. Shane
B. Wyatt Earp
C. Will Kane
D. Joe Starrett

Question 4: For which Western did John Wayne win his only Academy Award for Best Actor?

A. The Searchers
B. Stagecoach
C. True Grit
D. Rio Bravo

Question 5: Who directed John Wayne in the 1956 epic The Searchers?

A. Howard Hawks
B. Sergio Leone
C. John Ford
D. Fred Zinnemann

Question 6: In Clint Eastwood’s Unforgiven (1992), what is the name of his ageing gunslinger protagonist?

A. Blondie
B. William Munny
C. Little Bill Daggett
D. Ned Logan

Question 7: Which two actors starred as outlaws in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)?

A. Clint Eastwood and Lee Van Cleef
B. Paul Newman and Robert Redford
C. Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas
D. James Stewart and Henry Fonda

Question 8: What 1939 John Ford film marked John Wayne’s breakthrough as a leading man?

A. Red River
B. The Quiet Man
C. Stagecoach
D. Fort Apache

Question 9: The Magnificent Seven (1960) is a remake of which Akira Kurosawa film?

A. Rashomon
B. Yojimbo
C. Seven Samurai
D. Throne of Blood

Question 10: Who directed the 1959 Western Rio Bravo starring John Wayne and Dean Martin?

A. John Ford
B. Howard Hawks
C. Anthony Mann
D. Delmer Daves

Question 11: Clint Eastwood first portrayed the ‘Man with No Name’ in which 1964 film?

A. For a Few Dollars More
B. A Fistful of Dollars
C. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
D. Hang ‘Em High

Question 12: In Once Upon a Time in the West (1968), which actor plays the villainous Frank?

A. Charles Bronson
B. Jason Robards
C. Henry Fonda
D. Jack Elam

Question 13: Clint Eastwood both directed and starred in which 1985 supernatural Western?

A. Pale Rider
B. High Plains Drifter
C. Two Mules for Sister Sara
D. Joe Kidd

Question 14: Which 1990 Kevin Costner film won the Academy Award for Best Picture?

A. Wyatt Earp
B. Dances with Wolves
C. Open Range
D. The Quick and the Dead

Question 15: Who directed the ultra-violent 1969 Western The Wild Bunch?

A. Sergio Leone
B. Sam Peckinpah
C. Don Siegel
D. Robert Aldrich

Question 16: In the 1993 film Tombstone, who plays Doc Holliday opposite Kurt Russell’s Wyatt Earp?

A. Val Kilmer
B. Sam Elliott
C. Bill Paxton
D. Michael Biehn

Question 17: The original 3:10 to Yuma was released in which year?

A. 1955
B. 1957
C. 1960
D. 1962

Question 18: What is the name of John Wayne’s character in Howard Hawks’ 1948 Western Red River?

A. Tom Dunson
B. Matt Garth
C. Cherry Valance
D. Tess Millay

Question 19: In True Grit (1969), what does Mattie Ross hire Rooster Cogburn to do?

A. Find buried treasure
B. Avenge her father’s murder
C. Rescue a kidnapped child
D. Steal a herd of horses

Question 20: Which actor plays the harmonica-playing gunslinger in Once Upon a Time in the West?

A. Henry Fonda
B. Charles Bronson
C. Woody Strode
D. Jack Elam

Answers

  1. B. Sergio Leone – He directed the Dollars Trilogy, including this iconic 1966 film; John Ford made traditional Westerns like Stagecoach, Peckinpah The Wild Bunch, and Hawks Rio Bravo.
  2. B. 1952 – High Noon premiered that year and won Cooper an Oscar; the others are nearby but incorrect years for the film.
  3. A. Shane – Ladd’s character is simply known as Shane in the 1953 film; the others are from different Westerns.
  4. C. True Grit – Wayne won Best Actor for his role as Rooster Cogburn in 1969; he was nominated but didn’t win for the others.
  5. C. John Ford – Ford helmed this masterpiece of American cinema; the others directed different Wayne films.
  6. B. William Munny – Eastwood’s character is a reformed outlaw in the 1992 Best Picture nominee; the others are supporting roles.
  7. B. Paul Newman and Robert Redford – They play the titular outlaws in the 1969 hit; the pairs are from other Westerns.
  8. C. Stagecoach – This John Ford film launched Wayne to stardom in 1939; the others came later.
  9. C. Seven Samurai – The 1960 Western transplants Kurosawa’s 1954 story to the Old West.
  10. B. Howard Hawks – Hawks directed this laid-back 1959 Wayne vehicle; Ford did Stagecoach.
  11. B. A Fistful of Dollars – This 1964 Leone film introduced Eastwood’s iconic character; the others followed in the trilogy.
  12. C. Henry Fonda – Fonda’s chilling portrayal of Frank was a shocking villain turn; Bronson is Harmonica.
  13. A. Pale Rider – Eastwood directed and starred as a mysterious preacher/gunslinger in 1985.
  14. B. Dances with Wolves – Costner directed and starred in this epic, which swept the 1991 Oscars including Best Picture.
  15. B. Sam Peckinpah – Known as ‘Bloody Sam’, he directed this groundbreaking violent Western in 1969.
  16. A. Val Kilmer – Kilmer’s iconic ‘I’m your huckleberry’ Doc Holliday stole scenes in 1993.
  17. B. 1957 – The Glenn Ford original; remade in 2007 with Russell Crowe and Christian Bale.
  18. A. Tom Dunson – Wayne’s tyrannical cattle driver in the 1948 Hawks classic.
  19. B. Avenge her father’s murder – Mattie hires Cogburn to track killers Chaney and his gang.
  20. B. Charles Bronson – His unnamed character is ‘Harmonica’ due to his instrument and revenge motif.

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