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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
1760-1790
1790-1830
2. There were five Earp brothers. Which one did not exist?
Virgil
Morgan
Billy
Wyatt
3. What was Buffalo Bill's real name?
Henry McCarty
Ed Schieffelin
Marion Morrison
William Cody
4. Who joined Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show in 1884 and later got nickname “Little Miss Sureshot?”
Annie Oakley
Belle Starr
Pearl Hart
Calamity Jane
5. Which Native American chief worked in Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West show?
Crazy Horse
Red Cloud
Geronimo
Sitting Bull
6. What was the name of Butch Cassidy's gang of criminal outlaws?
The Young Guns
The Wild Bunch
The Regulators
The House
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?
Bolivia
Canada
Venezuela
Mexico
9. In which state is Dodge City located?
Nevada
Arizona
Kansas
Colorado
10. Kid Curry was part of which notorious gang?
The Wild Bunch
The James-Younger
The Rustlers
The Cowboys
11. What was the profession of gunfighter and gambler Doc Holliday?
Dentist
Laywer
Veterinarian
Banker
12. What did Doc Holliday die from?
Dysentery
Thrown from his horse
Poisoning
Tuberculosis
13. In which state is the town of Deadwood located?
Nevada
South Dakota
Missouri
New Mexico
14. What cards was Wild Bill Hickok holding when he was shot? Today, that is known as the "Dead Man's Hand".
Aces & jacks
Aces & fours
Aces & eights
Aces & queens
15. Where was Wild Bill Hickok killed?
Tombstone
Lincoln
Deadwood
Santa Fe
16. Who was the leader of Comanche tribe?
Cochise
Chief Joseph
Quanah Parker
Red Cloud
17. Which famous Indian leader was killed in the early skirmishes leading up to the Wounded Knee battle?
Crazy Horse
Sitting Bull
Chief Joseph
Red Cloud
18. Which Indian tribe was involved in the Wounded Knee massacre?
Apache
Sioux
Navajo
Cree
19. Which Apache leader is second only to Geronimo when it comes to that tribe’s historical significance?
Crazy Horse
Cochise
Red Cloud
Squanto
20. Who was the leader of the Lakota Tribe, who defeated US forces in the Battle of Little Bighorn?
Sitting Bull
Geronimo
Crazy Horse
Cochise
21. What was the most useful and important animal Native Americans used?
Buffalo
Coyote
Bear
Beaver
22. Calamity Jane, was an American frontierswoman known for being an acquaintance of...
Billy the Kid
Wyatt Earp
George Armstrong Custer
Wild Bill Hickok
23. Henry McCarty was better known by what nickname?
Butch Cassidy
Sundance Kid
The Tall Texan
Billy the Kid
24. In which state is the town of Tombstone located?
Missouri
Kansas
Arizona
Texas
25. What was Jesse James' gang called?
The Wild Bunch
The Young Guns
The Jesse-Frank Gang
The James-Younger Gang
26. Who killed Jesse James?
Billy Clanton
Robert Ford
Wyatt Earp
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 hanged
He was murdered
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 mother
Jesse's father
Jesse's brother Frank
Jesse's young half-brother
30. A heroic sheriff named Pat Garrett caught and jailed Billy the Kid. Then what happened?
Billy escaped
Billy wounded Pat Garrett
Billy killed Pat Garrett
Billy was hanged
31. Who killed Billy the Kid?
Pat Garrett
John Henry Tunstall
Jesse James
Ike Clanton
32. How old was Billy the Kid when he was murdered?
21
25
15
33
33. In what town did the gunfight at the O.K. corral take place?
Lincoln
El Paso
Dodge City
Tombstone
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?
3
4
7
5
36. Who was not killed in the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral?
Frank McLaury
Tom McLaury
Ike Clanton
Billy Clanton
37. Whose pseudonym was William H. Bonney?
Billy the Kid
Ike Clanton
Jesse James
Buffalo Bill
38. Where was Allan Pinkerton, the founder of Pilkerton's Detective Agency from?
United States
Waled
Scotland
Ireland
39. What was Harry Longabaugh's outlaw nickname?
Black Bart
Buffalo Bill
Sundance Kid
Butch Cassidy
40. Who was "The Queen of the Oklahoma Outlaws"?
Calamity Jane
Pearl Hart
Belle Starr
Laura Bullion
41. Which US president promised peace with Indians and then provoked one of the bloodiest conflicts in the West?
James A. Garfield
Rutherford B. Hayes
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
Royal Express
Pony Express
Buffalo Express
43. What was the route of that service?
Missouri-California
Nevada-California
Mississippi-California
Nebraska-California
44. Who was the U.S. commander that lost the Battle of the Little Bighorn?
Ulysses S. Grant
George Armstrong Custer
Jesse James
George S. Patton
45. What weapon has become known as "the gun that won the west"?
Colt peacemaker
Winchester riffle
Smith & Wesson revolver
Sharps derringer
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.