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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?
1860-1890
1830-1860
1790-1830
1760-1790
2. There were five Earp brothers. Which one did not exist?
Wyatt
Virgil
Morgan
Billy
3. What was Buffalo Bill's real name?
Marion Morrison
William Cody
Ed Schieffelin
Henry McCarty
4. Who joined Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show in 1884 and later got nickname “Little Miss Sureshot?”
Annie Oakley
Calamity Jane
Pearl Hart
Belle Starr
5. Which Native American chief worked in Buffalo Bill's Wild West show?
Red Cloud
Crazy Horse
Geronimo
Sitting Bull
6. What was the name of Butch Cassidy's gang of criminal outlaws?
The House
The Wild Bunch
The Regulators
The Young Guns
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
Colorado
Arizona
Kansas
10. Kid Curry was part of which notorious gang?
The Rustlers
The Cowboys
The James-Younger
The Wild Bunch
11. What was the profession of gunfighter and gambler Doc Holliday?
Dentist
Laywer
Veterinarian
Banker
12. What did Doc Holliday die from?
Poisoning
Thrown from his horse
Dysentery
Tuberculosis
13. In which state is the town of Deadwood located?
South Dakota
New Mexico
Nevada
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 & jacks
Aces & queens
Aces & eights
15. Where was Wild Bill Hickok killed?
Tombstone
Santa Fe
Lincoln
Deadwood
16. Who was the leader of Comanche tribe?
Quanah Parker
Chief Joseph
Cochise
Red Cloud
17. Which famous Indian leader was killed in the early skirmishes leading up to the Wounded Knee battle?
Sitting Bull
Chief Joseph
Crazy Horse
Red Cloud
18. Which Indian tribe was involved in the Wounded Knee massacre?
Cree
Apache
Navajo
Sioux
19. Which Apache leader is second only to Geronimo when it comes to that tribe’s historical significance?
Red Cloud
Crazy Horse
Cochise
Squanto
20. Who was the leader of the Lakota Tribe, who defeated US forces in the Battle of Little Bighorn?
Cochise
Geronimo
Crazy Horse
Sitting Bull
21. What was the most useful and important animal Native Americans used?
Buffalo
Beaver
Bear
Coyote
22. Calamity Jane, was an American frontierswoman known for being an acquaintance of...
George Armstrong Custer
Wyatt Earp
Wild Bill Hickok
Billy the Kid
23. Henry McCarty was better known by what nickname?
Butch Cassidy
Billy the Kid
The Tall Texan
Sundance Kid
24. In which state is the town of Tombstone located?
Kansas
Texas
Arizona
Missouri
25. What was Jesse James' gang called?
The James-Younger Gang
The Young Guns
The Wild Bunch
The Jesse-Frank Gang
26. Who killed Jesse James?
Billy Clanton
Robert Ford
Doc Holliday
Wyatt Earp
27. What happened to him after he was convicted of the murder of Jesse James?
He was hanged
He was released
He was imprisoned
He was murdered
28. Who offered a $10,000 reward for the capture of Jesse James, dead or alive?
President Chester A. Arthur
Governor Crittenden
Attorney Brewster
Private detective Pinkerton
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 young half-brother
Jesse's mother
Jesse's father
30. A heroic sheriff named Pat Garrett caught and jailed Billy the Kid. Then what happened?
Billy killed Pat Garrett
Billy was hanged
Billy escaped
Billy wounded Pat Garrett
31. Who killed Billy the Kid?
Jesse James
Pat Garrett
Ike Clanton
John Henry Tunstall
32. How old was Billy the Kid when he was murdered?
15
33
25
21
33. In what town did the gunfight at the O.K. corral take place?
El Paso
Tombstone
Dodge City
Lincoln
34. How long the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral lasted?
30 minutes
3 minutes
30 seconds
3 hours
35. How many people were killed in the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral?
4
7
3
5
36. Who was not killed in the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral?
Tom McLaury
Billy Clanton
Frank McLaury
Ike Clanton
37. Whose pseudonym was William H. Bonney?
Jesse James
Buffalo Bill
Billy the Kid
Ike Clanton
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?
Buffalo Bill
Sundance Kid
Butch Cassidy
Black Bart
40. Who was "The Queen of the Oklahoma Outlaws"?
Belle Starr
Pearl Hart
Laura Bullion
Calamity Jane
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
Andrew Johnson
Ulysses S. Grant
42. What was the name of a mail service using relays of horse-mounted riders in American Wild West?
Royal Express
Cowboy Express
Buffalo Express
Pony Express
43. What was the route of that service?
Missouri-California
Nevada-California
Nebraska-California
Mississippi-California
44. Who was the U.S. commander that lost the Battle of the Little Bighorn?
Ulysses S. Grant
George Armstrong Custer
George S. Patton
Jesse James
45. What weapon has become known as "the gun that won the west"?
Smith & Wesson revolver
Colt peacemaker
Winchester riffle
Sharps derringer
46. Who was the last surviving participant of the gunfight at the O.K. Corral?
Wyatt Earp
Doc Holliday
Morgan Earp
Ike Clanton
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