Can You Score 20/20? Pure Wild West Western Movie Trivia Challenge for Real Fans

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Test your knowledge of classic Wild West Westerns with this ultimate trivia quiz! From iconic gunfights and sheriffs to legendary outlaws and dusty trails, these 20 questions range from easy warm-ups to devilishly tough challenges for true fans.

20 Trivia Questions on Pure Wild West Western Movies

Question 1: Who directed the 1956 Western classic The Searchers?

A. Howard Hawks
B. John Ford
C. Anthony Mann
D. George Stevens

Question 2: In which 1939 film did John Wayne first gain stardom as the Ringo Kid?

A. Red River
B. Stagecoach
C. Rio Bravo
D. The Cowboys

Question 3: What year was High Noon, starring Gary Cooper as a lone sheriff, released?

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

Question 4: Who played the titular gunslinger in Shane (1953)?

A. James Stewart
B. Gary Cooper
C. Alan Ladd
D. Glenn Ford

Question 5: For which role did John Wayne win his only Academy Award for Best Actor in a Western?

A. Ethan Edwards in The Searchers
B. Rooster Cogburn in True Grit
C. Tom Doniphon in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
D. Hondo Lane in Hondo

Question 6: The Magnificent Seven (1960) is a remake of which Akira Kurosawa film?

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

Question 7: Who directed and starred in the 1992 Oscar-winning Western Unforgiven?

A. John Ford
B. Clint Eastwood
C. Sergio Leone
D. Sam Peckinpah

Question 8: In Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), who played Butch Cassidy?

A. Robert Redford
B. Steve McQueen
C. Paul Newman
D. Warren Beatty

Question 9: What is the name of the town where the events of High Noon unfold in real time?

A. Tombstone
B. Hadleyville
C. Dodge City
D. Four Corners

Question 10: Who composed the iconic score for Sergio Leone’s The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)?

A. Elmer Bernstein
B. John Williams
C. Ennio Morricone
D. Dimitri Tiomkin

Question 11: In Rio Bravo (1959), John Wayne plays Sheriff John T.?

A. Wayne
B. Taggart
C. Chance
D. Thornton

Question 12: My Darling Clementine (1946) dramatises the story of Wyatt Earp and the?

A. James Gang
B. Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
C. Lincoln County War
D. Hatfield-McCoy Feud

Question 13: Who directed Red River (1948), starring John Wayne and Montgomery Clift?

A. John Ford
B. Howard Hawks
C. Anthony Mann
D. King Vidor

Question 14: In Winchester ’73 (1950), James Stewart hunts his brother’s killer for a prized?

A. Colt Single Action Army revolver
B. Winchester Model 1873 rifle
C. Sharps buffalo rifle
D. Spencer carbine

Question 15: Who plays the leader Pike Bishop in Sam Peckinpah’s The Wild Bunch (1969)?

A. Ernest Borgnine
B. Robert Ryan
C. William Holden
D. Warren Oates

Question 16: In Sergio Leone’s Once Upon a Time in the West (1968), Charles Bronson plays a character known as?

A. Frank
B. Cheyenne
C. Harmonica
D. Jill McBain

Question 17: Who plays the villainous outlaw Ben Wade in 3:10 to Yuma (1957)?

A. Van Heflin
B. Glenn Ford
C. Henry Fonda
D. Lee Marvin

Question 18: John Ford’s The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) stars John Wayne and?

A. James Stewart
B. Jimmy Stewart
C. Henry Fonda
D. Gary Cooper

Question 19: Gene Hackman won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for Unforgiven as Sheriff?

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

Question 20: In True Grit (1969), what does Rooster Cogburn lose in the opening scene?

A. His badge
B. An eye (from a previous injury)
C. His horse
D. His marshal’s star

Answers

  1. B. John Ford – The Searchers was directed by John Ford, a master of the Western genre; Hawks directed Red River, Mann made Winchester ’73, and Stevens helmed Shane.
  2. B. Stagecoach – John Wayne’s breakout role as the Ringo Kid in John Ford’s Stagecoach (1939) launched him to stardom; the others are later Wayne Westerns.
  3. B. 1952 – High Noon premiered in 1952 and won four Oscars, including Best Actor for Gary Cooper; the other years are close but incorrect.
  4. C. Alan Ladd – Alan Ladd portrayed the mysterious stranger Shane in George Stevens’ 1953 film; the others starred in different Westerns like Winchester ’73 or High Noon.
  5. B. Rooster Cogburn in True Grit – Wayne won Best Actor for his portrayal of the one-eyed U.S. Marshal Rooster Cogburn in the 1969 film; the other roles were nominations or different films.
  6. B. Seven Samurai – John Sturges’ 1960 Western remakes Kurosawa’s 1954 Seven Samurai; Yojimbo inspired A Fistful of Dollars.
  7. B. Clint Eastwood – Eastwood directed and starred as William Munny in Unforgiven, which won Best Picture and Director Oscars; Leone made spaghetti Westerns, Peckinpah directed The Wild Bunch.
  8. C. Paul Newman – Paul Newman played Butch Cassidy opposite Robert Redford’s Sundance Kid in the 1969 hit; Redford was Sundance.
  9. B. Hadleyville – The tense events of High Noon take place in the town of Hadleyville; Tombstone is from other Earp films.
  10. C. Ennio Morricone – Morricone’s score for Leone’s Dollars Trilogy film is legendary; Bernstein scored The Magnificent Seven.
  11. C. Chance – Wayne’s Sheriff John T. Chance battles outlaws in Howard Hawks’ Rio Bravo; other names are from different films.
  12. B. Gunfight at the O.K. Corral – John Ford’s 1946 film stars Henry Fonda as Wyatt Earp leading up to the famous 1881 gunfight.
  13. B. Howard Hawks – Hawks co-wrote and directed the epic cattle-drive story Red River; Ford made The Searchers.
  14. B. Winchester Model 1873 rifle – The “gun that won the West” is passed between characters in Anthony Mann’s 1950 James Stewart Western.
  15. C. William Holden – Holden leads the ageing outlaw gang as Pike Bishop in Peckinpah’s violent 1969 masterpiece.
  16. C. Harmonica – Bronson’s nameless character is called Harmonica due to his instrument in Leone’s epic; Fonda is the villain Frank.
  17. B. Glenn Ford – Ford plays the charismatic Ben Wade captured for the train to Yuma in Delmer Daves’ tense 1957 film; Heflin is the deputy.
  18. A. James Stewart – The film pairs Wayne and Stewart, with the famous line “Print the legend”; Stewart’s name was sometimes listed as Jimmy.
  19. B. Little Bill Daggett – Hackman won Supporting Actor for the brutal sheriff in Unforgiven; Eastwood is Munny.
  20. B. An eye (from a previous injury) – Cogburn is introduced with his eyepatch from an old wound in Henry Hathaway’s 1969 adaptation.

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