"Maverick" - The TV Series and the Movie Quiz | Entertainment

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1. James Garner played the role of Bret Maverick in the TV series. Who played his brother Bart?

Answer: Jack Kelly

Jack Kelly (1927-1992) shared the series with James Garner rotating from week to week in the leading role. He co-starred in a number of movies and from 1983-86 was mayor of Huntington Beach, California. Jack Webb (1920-1982) is best known for is role of Sgt. Joe Friday in the TV series "Dragnet". Jack Lord played Steve McGarrett in the TV series "Hawaii Five-O". Jack Lemmon (1925-2001) was predominately a movie actor who received eight Academy Award nominations, winning two of them in 1955 and 1973.

2. What was the profession of the Maverick brothers?

Answer: Professional card players

All were gamblers and played poker. They travelled the Old West and were many times on Mississippi riverboats simply looking for a card school. They were constantly getting themselves into life threatening situations involving money, women or both. Due to their ethical standards they quite often had to weigh up their financial situation against their moral obligations.

The dilemma resulted in leaning toward their moral code of ethics.

3. In the movie, Maverick (Mel Gibson) is on his way to a major five-card draw poker tournament with an entrance fee of $25,000. How much money is he short of for the entry fee?

Answer: $3,000

With prize money of $500,000, Maverick not only wants to win the tournament but at the same time, prove to everybody that he is the best poker player in the west. After collecting a debt and swindling a Russian Grand Duke, he finally gets his $3,000 and enters the poker tournament aboard the paddle-steamer, Lauren Belle.

4. Brent Maverick appeared in the third season of the TV series. Of what relation was he to Bret and Bart Maverick?

Answer: Brother

Brent Maverick (Robert Colbert) was the third brother of the Mavericks. The character Brent Maverick was dropped for the fifth and final season of the series. After the series finished Colbert made appearances in" Bonanza" and" F Troop" and then co-starred with James Darren in the science fiction TV series "Time Tunnel".

5. Who played the role of Marshal Zane Cooper in the 1994 movie?

Answer: James Garner

James Garner (1928-2014) made Bret Maverick famous due to the TV series, however, this was a different role for him in the movie and we find out at the end of the movie that he is the father of Bret Maverick (Mel Gibson). Garner appeared in many movies and also had the leading role of the private eye, Jim Rockford in the TV series "The Rockford Files". Graham Greene and Paul L. Smith both appeared in the movie as Joseph and The Archduke respectively. Jack Kelly did not appear in the movie as he had passed away in 1992.

6. In the third season of the TV series cousin Beau Maverick was introduced. Who played the role of Beau Maverick?

Answer: Roger Moore

Roger Moore was introduced into the script when Garner left due to contractual disputes. He was introduced as cousin Beau who supposedly had an extended stay
in the United Kingdom resulting in his slight English accent. Gene Barry played Bat Masterson in the TV series of the same name. Horton played the role of frontier scout Flint McCullough in the TV series "Wagon Train" and Fuller was Jess Harper in the western series "Laramie".

7. In the movie, the final participants in the tournament were Maverick, Bransford, Angel and Commodore Duvall. Who was eliminated first?

Answer: Annabelle Bransford

Annabelle Bransford (Jodie Foster) is eliminated first. There is a fixed hand dealt (bottom of the pack) and Maverick protests but then agrees to take one last card from the top of the pack. The card is an ace of spades which gives him an unbeatable royal flush. Angel becomes enraged and draws his gun but he and his cronies are out-gunned by Maverick and Cooper.

In the confusion Cooper steals the prize money and leaves the paddle-steamer. However, the Commodore (James Coburn) and Cooper are in partnership and had arranged to meet to split the money if the Commodore or Angel (a third partner) did not win the tournament.

8. There were a number of actors who had supporting and recurring roles in the TV series. One character was a dapper and sophisticated con-artist named Dandy Jim Buckley. Who was the actor who played this role, though he was possibly better known as a private investigator in "77 Sunset Strip"?

Answer: Efrem Zimbalist Jr.

Efrem Zimbalist Jr.(1918-2014) played the role of Stuart "Stu" Bailey in" 77 Sunset Strip" (1958-1964) and Edd Byrnes was "Kookie", the valet parking attendant in the same series. Craig Stevens (1918-2000) played private detective Peter Gunn in the TV series of the same name. Robert Culp (1930-2010) was a secret service agent opposite Bill Cosby in the TV series "I Spy" (1965-1968).

9. The Commodore and Cooper meet at a predetermined spot to split the prize money, but they fight over the proceeds. They are interrupted by Maverick who takes the $500,000 but leaves them something. What is this something?

Answer: A gun

Maverick leaves them an unloaded gun. The Commodore and Cooper fight and Cooper completely over powers the Commodore and then sets out after Maverick.

10. Cooper confronts Maverick at the end of the movie in a bath-house and they openly admit the whole charade and that they are father and son. While they are both bathing, Annabelle Bransford enters the bath-house and robs them of the prize money. What does she actually steal and get away with?

Answer: $250,000

Maverick had split the prize money and had kept $250,000 in his boots. He admits to Cooper that he planned for her to steal only half of the money as he is now looking forward to chasing her down to recover the balance of the money.

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"Maverick" - The TV Series and the Movie Quiz

The TV series (1957-62) was a western with comic overtones that made viewing very entertaining. The movie in 1994 was very similar. See if you can test your memory on the TV series and the movie.

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