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American Wild West
Do you remember the events and famous figures from American Wild West?
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| First submitted | February 3, 2021 |
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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?
Morgan
Billy
Wyatt
Virgil
3. What was Buffalo Bill's real name?
Henry McCarty
Marion Morrison
William Cody
Ed Schieffelin
4. Who joined Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show in 1884 and later got nickname “Little Miss Sureshot?”
Annie Oakley
Belle Starr
Calamity Jane
Pearl Hart
5. Which Native American chief worked in Buffalo Bill's Wild West show?
Sitting Bull
Red Cloud
Geronimo
Crazy Horse
6. What was the name of Butch Cassidy's gang of criminal outlaws?
The Young Guns
The House
The Wild Bunch
The Regulators
7. What was the name of the hideout where Butch Cassidy would hide?
Hole in the Wall
The Unknown Castle
Blindman Hills
The Fortress
8. What country's military forces shot dead Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid?
Venezuela
Canada
Mexico
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 Rustlers
The Cowboys
The Wild Bunch
11. What was the profession of gunfighter and gambler Doc Holliday?
Veterinarian
Laywer
Banker
Dentist
12. What did Doc Holliday die from?
Dysentery
Thrown from his horse
Tuberculosis
Poisoning
13. In which state is the town of Deadwood located?
Missouri
South Dakota
Nevada
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 & queens
Aces & jacks
Aces & eights
Aces & fours
15. Where was Wild Bill Hickok killed?
Lincoln
Deadwood
Santa Fe
Tombstone
16. Who was the leader of Comanche tribe?
Chief Joseph
Cochise
Red Cloud
Quanah Parker
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?
Cree
Navajo
Sioux
Apache
19. Which Apache leader is second only to Geronimo when it comes to that tribe’s historical significance?
Crazy Horse
Red Cloud
Squanto
Cochise
20. Who was the leader of the Lakota Tribe, who defeated US forces in the Battle of Little Bighorn?
Crazy Horse
Cochise
Sitting Bull
Geronimo
21. What was the most useful and important animal Native Americans used?
Coyote
Bear
Beaver
Buffalo
22. Calamity Jane, was an American frontierswoman known for being an acquaintance of...
George Armstrong Custer
Wyatt Earp
Billy the Kid
Wild Bill Hickok
23. Henry McCarty was better known by what nickname?
Butch Cassidy
Billy the Kid
Sundance Kid
The Tall Texan
24. In which state is the town of Tombstone located?
Missouri
Kansas
Texas
Arizona
25. What was Jesse James' gang called?
The Jesse-Frank Gang
The James-Younger Gang
The Young Guns
The Wild Bunch
26. Who killed Jesse James?
Wyatt Earp
Billy Clanton
Doc Holliday
Robert Ford
27. What happened to him after he was convicted of the murder of Jesse James?
He was murdered
He was imprisoned
He was released
He was hanged
28. Who offered a $10,000 reward for the capture of Jesse James, dead or alive?
Private detective Pinkerton
Attorney Brewster
President Chester A. Arthur
Governor Crittenden
29. Who did the Pinkerton's detectives kill when they threw a bomb through the window of Jesse James' house?
Jesse's brother Frank
Jesse's father
Jesse's mother
Jesse's young half-brother
30. A heroic sheriff named Pat Garrett caught and jailed Billy the Kid. Then what happened?
Billy was hanged
Billy escaped
Billy wounded Pat Garrett
Billy killed Pat Garrett
31. Who killed Billy the Kid?
Jesse James
Ike Clanton
Pat Garrett
John Henry Tunstall
32. How old was Billy the Kid when he was murdered?
21
25
33
15
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 seconds
3 minutes
3 hours
30 minutes
35. How many people were killed in the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral?
5
3
7
4
36. Who was not killed in the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral?
Frank McLaury
Billy Clanton
Tom McLaury
Ike Clanton
37. Whose pseudonym was William H. Bonney?
Billy the Kid
Jesse James
Ike Clanton
Buffalo Bill
38. Where was Allan Pinkerton, the founder of Pilkerton's Detective Agency from?
United States
Ireland
Waled
Scotland
39. What was Harry Longabaugh's outlaw nickname?
Butch Cassidy
Sundance Kid
Buffalo Bill
Black Bart
40. Who was "The Queen of the Oklahoma Outlaws"?
Belle Starr
Laura Bullion
Pearl Hart
Calamity Jane
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
Andrew Johnson
Ulysses S. Grant
42. What was the name of a mail service using relays of horse-mounted riders in American Wild West?
Cowboy Express
Buffalo Express
Pony Express
Royal Express
43. What was the route of that service?
Nebraska-California
Nevada-California
Missouri-California
Mississippi-California
44. Who was the U.S. commander that lost the Battle of the Little Bighorn?
Jesse James
George Armstrong Custer
George S. Patton
Ulysses S. Grant
45. What weapon has become known as "the gun that won the west"?
Colt peacemaker
Smith & Wesson revolver
Sharps derringer
Winchester riffle
46. Who was the last surviving participant of the gunfight at the O.K. Corral?
Wyatt Earp
Ike Clanton
Doc Holliday
Morgan Earp
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