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American Wild West

Do you remember the events and famous figures from American Wild West?
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1. The Wild West is generally considered as a period between what years?
1830-1860
1860-1890
1790-1830
1760-1790
2. There were five Earp brothers. Which one did not exist?
Billy
Morgan
Virgil
Wyatt
3. What was Buffalo Bill's real name?
Marion Morrison
Henry McCarty
Ed Schieffelin
William Cody
4. Who joined Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show in 1884 and later got nickname “Little Miss Sureshot?”
Annie Oakley
Calamity Jane
Belle Starr
Pearl Hart
5. Which Native American chief worked in Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West show?
Sitting Bull
Geronimo
Red Cloud
Crazy Horse
6. What was the name of Butch Cassidy's gang of criminal outlaws?
The Wild Bunch
The House
The Young Guns
The Regulators
7. What was the name of the hideout where Butch Cassidy would hide?
The Unknown Castle
The Fortress
Blindman Hills
Hole in the Wall
8. What country's military forces shot dead Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid?
Mexico
Canada
Venezuela
Bolivia
9. In which state is Dodge City located?
Nevada
Arizona
Kansas
Colorado
10. Kid Curry was part of which notorious gang?
The James-Younger
The Cowboys
The Wild Bunch
The Rustlers
11. What was the profession of gunfighter and gambler Doc Holliday?
Veterinarian
Laywer
Banker
Dentist
12. What did Doc Holliday die from?
Poisoning
Tuberculosis
Dysentery
Thrown from his horse
13. In which state is the town of Deadwood located?
Nevada
New Mexico
South Dakota
Missouri
14. What cards was Wild Bill Hickok holding when he was shot? Today, that is known as the "Dead Man's Hand".
Aces & fours
Aces & eights
Aces & queens
Aces & jacks
15. Where was Wild Bill Hickok killed?
Santa Fe
Tombstone
Lincoln
Deadwood
16. Who was the leader of Comanche tribe?
Chief Joseph
Red Cloud
Quanah Parker
Cochise
17. Which famous Indian leader was killed in the early skirmishes leading up to the Wounded Knee battle?
Crazy Horse
Chief Joseph
Sitting Bull
Red Cloud
18. Which Indian tribe was involved in the Wounded Knee massacre?
Navajo
Cree
Apache
Sioux
19. Which Apache leader is second only to Geronimo when it comes to that tribe’s historical significance?
Crazy Horse
Squanto
Red Cloud
Cochise
20. Who was the leader of the Lakota Tribe, who defeated US forces in the Battle of Little Bighorn?
Geronimo
Cochise
Crazy Horse
Sitting Bull
21. What was the most useful and important animal Native Americans used?
Beaver
Buffalo
Coyote
Bear
22. Calamity Jane, was an American frontierswoman known for being an acquaintance of...
Wyatt Earp
Wild Bill Hickok
Billy the Kid
George Armstrong Custer
23. Henry McCarty was better known by what nickname?
Sundance Kid
The Tall Texan
Butch Cassidy
Billy the Kid
24. In which state is the town of Tombstone located?
Arizona
Kansas
Texas
Missouri
25. What was Jesse James' gang called?
The James-Younger Gang
The Jesse-Frank Gang
The Wild Bunch
The Young Guns
26. Who killed Jesse James?
Billy Clanton
Wyatt Earp
Robert Ford
Doc Holliday
27. What happened to him after he was convicted of the murder of Jesse James?
He was released
He was imprisoned
He was murdered
He was hanged
28. Who offered a $10,000 reward for the capture of Jesse James, dead or alive?
Attorney Brewster
Governor Crittenden
Private detective Pinkerton
President Chester A. Arthur
29. Who did the Pinkerton's detectives kill when they threw a bomb through the window of Jesse James' house?
Jesse's young half-brother
Jesse's father
Jesse's brother Frank
Jesse's mother
30. A heroic sheriff named Pat Garrett caught and jailed Billy the Kid. Then what happened?
Billy killed Pat Garrett
Billy escaped
Billy wounded Pat Garrett
Billy was hanged
31. Who killed Billy the Kid?
John Henry Tunstall
Pat Garrett
Jesse James
Ike Clanton
32. How old was Billy the Kid when he was murdered?
21
15
33
25
33. In what town did the gunfight at the O.K. corral take place?
Dodge City
Lincoln
Tombstone
El Paso
34. How long the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral lasted?
30 minutes
3 hours
30 seconds
3 minutes
35. How many people were killed in the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral?
4
7
5
3
36. Who was not killed in the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral?
Tom McLaury
Ike Clanton
Frank McLaury
Billy Clanton
37. Whose pseudonym was William H. Bonney?
Buffalo Bill
Jesse James
Billy the Kid
Ike Clanton
38. Where was Allan Pinkerton, the founder of Pilkerton's Detective Agency from?
Waled
United States
Scotland
Ireland
39. What was Harry Longabaugh's outlaw nickname?
Buffalo Bill
Sundance Kid
Black Bart
Butch Cassidy
40. Who was "The Queen of the Oklahoma Outlaws"?
Pearl Hart
Laura Bullion
Calamity Jane
Belle Starr
41. Which US president promised peace with Indians and then provoked one of the bloodiest conflicts in the West?
Rutherford B. Hayes
James A. Garfield
Ulysses S. Grant
Andrew Johnson
42. What was the name of a mail service using relays of horse-mounted riders in American Wild West?
Cowboy Express
Buffalo Express
Royal Express
Pony Express
43. What was the route of that service?
Nevada-California
Nebraska-California
Mississippi-California
Missouri-California
44. Who was the U.S. commander that lost the Battle of the Little Bighorn?
George S. Patton
Ulysses S. Grant
George Armstrong Custer
Jesse James
45. What weapon has become known as "the gun that won the west"?
Smith & Wesson revolver
Sharps derringer
Winchester riffle
Colt peacemaker
9 Comments
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Level 55
Feb 25, 2022
Cool quiz! I love the wild west
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Level 53
Feb 25, 2022
Thanks for playing :)
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Level 63
Feb 25, 2022
Great quiz. I got the Robert Ford one wrong because he WAS eventually murdered, but not by the law (which is likely what the question meant). He faced no legal repercussions, but someone angry over it murdered him years later.

If you haven’t seen it, ‘The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford,’ covers it. It is a fantastic movie far too few people have seen.

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Level 53
Feb 25, 2022
Thanks. I haven't seen the movie but I definitely will.
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Level 52
Feb 25, 2022
Tremendous film. Easily one of the best westerns of the past 20 years.
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Level 71
Nov 4, 2023
Cool quiz, but I think #4 gives away the answer to #1.
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Level 53
Nov 4, 2023
Yes, you are right. I will fix it.
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Level 87
Nov 4, 2023
Nice quiz. It's got a few typos which, if fixed, would make this a quiz I'd nominate
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Level 53
Nov 4, 2023
Thanks. Please let me know.