Can You Score 20/20? Western Movie Questions Only Psychos Get Right – Ultimate Trivia Quiz

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Test your cinematic prowess with these 20 fiendishly tough Western movie trivia questions! Spanning Hollywood classics, Spaghetti Westerns, and neo-Western gems, they range from tricky to psycho-level obscure. Grab a pencil and see if you can conquer them all.

20 Trivia Questions on Western Movies

Question 1: Who directed the 1960 epic Western The Alamo?

A. John Ford
B. Howard Hawks
C. John Wayne
D. Sam Peckinpah

Question 2: In High Noon (1952), what time does the train arrive, bringing the Miller gang back to town?

A. 10:30 a.m.
B. Noon
C. 2:00 p.m.
D. 3:10 p.m.

Question 3: Which composer created the iconic score for Sergio Leone’s Dollars Trilogy?

A. Elmer Bernstein
B. Dimitri Tiomkin
C. Ennio Morricone
D. Jerry Goldsmith

Question 4: What is Clint Eastwood’s character called in For a Few Dollars More (1965)?

A. Blondie
B. Joe
C. Manco
D. Ramrod

Question 5: In The Searchers (1956), over how many years does Ethan Edwards search for his niece Debbie?

A. 3 years
B. 5 years
C. 7 years
D. 10 years

Question 6: Who plays Wyatt Earp in John Ford’s My Darling Clementine (1946)?

A. James Stewart
B. Burt Lancaster
C. Henry Fonda
D. Gary Cooper

Question 7: In what year was George Stevens’ Shane released?

A. 1951
B. 1952
C. 1953
D. 1954

Question 8: Who directed the ultra-violent 1969 Western The Wild Bunch?

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

Question 9: In Unforgiven (1992), what is the name of the Wyoming town ruled by Little Bill Daggett?

A. Hadleyville
B. Redemption
C. Big Whiskey
D. Lago

Question 10: Which Spaghetti Western features the line: "There are two kinds of people in the world, my friend: Those who have loaded guns and those who dig. You dig."?

A. A Fistful of Dollars
B. Pale Rider
C. Dirty Harry
D. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Question 11: Who won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for playing Little Bill in Unforgiven?

A. Morgan Freeman
B. Richard Harris
C. Gene Hackman
D. Frances McDormand

Question 12: What is the full name of the marshal played by John Wayne in Rio Bravo (1959)?

A. Kirby York
B. Cole Thornton
C. John T. Chance
D. Tom Destry

Question 13: The 1960 The Magnificent Seven is a remake of which Akira Kurosawa film?

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

Question 14: Who portrays Doc Holliday in Tombstone (1993)?

A. Kurt Russell
B. Sam Elliott
C. Bill Paxton
D. Val Kilmer

Question 15: What historical battle serves as the bloody opening sequence in Dances with Wolves (1990)?

A. The Alamo
B. Gettysburg
C. Little Bighorn
D. San Juan Hill

Question 16: Who directed Bob Dylan’s soundtrack-heavy Western Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (1973)?

A. Arthur Penn
B. Sergio Leone
C. Robert Altman
D. Sam Peckinpah

Question 17: In Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), what is the name of the outlaw gang the duo belongs to?

A. Hole-in-the-Wall Gang
B. Dalton Gang
C. Younger Gang
D. Wild Bunch

Question 18: What is considered the first 100% sound Western feature film, released in 1929?

A. The Virginian
B. The Big Trail
C. In Old Arizona
D. Lightnin’

Question 19: In Howard Hawks’ Red River (1948), who plays the tyrannical cattle baron Tom Dunson?

A. Montgomery Clift
B. Walter Brennan
C. John Wayne
D. John Ireland

Question 20: In what year was Sergio Leone’s Once Upon a Time in the West released?

A. 1966
B. 1967
C. 1968
D. 1969

Answers

  1. C. John Wayne – John Wayne made his directorial debut with The Alamo, also starring as Davy Crockett; Ford and Hawks collaborated with him but did not direct it, Peckinpah was later.
  2. B. Noon – The film’s real-time tension builds to the noon train arrival, as sung in the theme; other times are plausible but incorrect for this story.
  3. C. Ennio Morricone – Morricone scored all three Dollars films starting with A Fistful of Dollars; others scored other Westerns like The Magnificent Seven (Bernstein).
  4. C. Manco – Eastwood’s bounty hunter is named Manco (or Monco) by Indio; Blondie is from The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Joe from A Fistful of Dollars.
  5. B. 5 years – The search spans five years from 1868 Comanche raid to 1873 rescue; other durations are approximate distractors from similar epics.
  6. C. Henry Fonda – Fonda’s stoic Earp is iconic in Ford’s O.K. Corral tale; Stewart was in Winchester ’73, Cooper in High Noon.
  7. C. 1953 – Shane premiered in 1953, winning acclaim; adjacent years are for nearby Westerns like High Noon (1952).
  8. D. Sam Peckinpah – Peckinpah’s bloody revisionist Western redefined the genre; others directed other classics.
  9. C. Big Whiskey – The action centres on Big Whiskey, Wyoming; other towns are from High Noon, High Plains Drifter, etc.
  10. D. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly – Blondie says it to Tuco during a grave-digging scene; similar lines appear in other Eastwood films but not this exact quote.
  11. C. Gene Hackman – Hackman won for sadistic sheriff Little Bill; Freeman and Harris were nominated, McDormand won for Fargo.
  12. C. John T. Chance – Wayne’s Chance holds the town against outlaws; other names from Hawks’ El Dorado, Ford’s Rio Grande.
  13. D. Seven Samurai – John Sturges remade Kurosawa’s 1954 film; others are Kurosawa samurai tales adapted elsewhere.
  14. D. Val Kilmer – Kilmer’s tubercular, quotable Holliday steals scenes; Russell plays Wyatt Earp.
  15. C. Little Bighorn – Lt. Dunbar survives Custer’s 1876 defeat; others are unrelated battles.
  16. D. Sam Peckinpah – Peckinpah helmed this Dylan-scored outlaw tale; others directed different Westerns.
  17. D. Wild Bunch – The film explicitly names their Wild Bunch affiliation; Hole-in-the-Wall was a hideout.
  18. C. In Old Arizona – This Raoul Walsh film was the first all-talking Western; The Virginian followed later in 1929.
  19. C. John Wayne – Wayne’s ruthless Dunson clashes with son Montgomery Clift on the Chisholm Trail.
  20. C. 1968 – Leone’s masterpiece premiered in 1968; adjacent years for other Leone films like Dollars Trilogy.

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