Quiz about The WayneHawks Quintet
Quiz about The WayneHawks Quintet

The Wayne-Hawks Quintet Trivia Quiz


Wayne is best known for his films with John Ford, but here are five he did with the equally legendary Howard Hawks.

A multiple-choice quiz by tjoebigham. Estimated time: 5 mins.
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Author
tjoebigham
Time
5 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
86,593
Updated
Feb 21 23
# Qns
25
Difficulty
Average
Avg Score
17 / 25
Plays
1443
Awards
Top 35% Quiz
Last 3 plays: Guest 76 (21/25), Guest 69 (18/25), Guest 69 (18/25).
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1. What was Wayne's line of work in 1948's "Red River"? Hint

cattle baron
cavalry officer
cattle rustler
travelling salesman

2. Who debuted in "Red River" as Matt Garth, Dunson's adopted son who later rebels against him? Hint

Paul Newman
James Dean
Montgomery Clift
Richard Beymer

3. Who was "River's" female lead, who co-starred again with Wayne in a John Ford film? Hint

Maureen O'Hara
Joanne Dru
Wanda Hendrix
Janet Leigh

4. What letter was added to the Dunson brand at the end of "River"? Hint

F
M
L
T

5. What 70's picture did "River" appear in? Hint

Saturday Night Fever
American Graffiti
Grease
The Last Picture Show

6. What was Wayne's job in 1959's "Rio Bravo"? Hint

sheriff
banker
undertaker
priest

7. What popular singers teamed with Wayne in "Rio Bravo"? Hint

Bobby Rydell and Frank Sinatra
Mary Robbins and Fabian
Tony Bennett and Johnny Ray
Dean Martin and Ricky Nelson

8. Who was Duke's girl in "Rio Bravo"? Hint

Angie Dickinson
Ann-Margaret
Suzanne Pleshette
Raquel Welch

9. What "River" co-star reteamed with Wayne in "Rio Bravo"? Hint

Walter Brennan
John Ireland
Hank Worden
Noah Beery, Jr.

10. What future filmmaker took the name of Wayne's character in "Rio Bravo"? Hint

Wes Craven
Steven Spielberg
Quentin Tarantino
John Carpenter

11. Where was the setting of 1962's "Hatari!"? Hint

Africa
Tahiti
South America
Japan

12. And what does the title "Hatari!" mean? Hint

Hunters
Brave Men
Big Men
Danger

13. What Italian actress was Duke's flame in "Hatari"? Hint

Gina Lolabridgida
Sophia Loren
Elsa Martinelli
Claudia Cardinale

14. What "Hatari!" co-star reteamed with Wayne in "The Longest Day" (which was not directed by Hawks)? Hint

Gerald Blain
Hardy Kreuger
Red Buttons
Bruce Cabot

15. Who was "Hatari's" composer? Hint

Bernard Herrmann
Jerry Goldsmith
John Barry
Henry Mancini

16. Who was the co-star in 1967's "El Dorado"? Hint

Kirk Douglas
Robert Mitchum
Richard Widmark
Burt Lancaster

17. What future star of "The Godfather" co-starred in "El Dorado"? Hint

Robert Duvall
James Caan
Al Pacino
John Cazale

18. What actor, better known in his television role as a TV station boss on one of the most loved sitcoms (and later a newspaper editor on his own spinoff), played "Dorado's" villian?

Answer: (Two Words)
19. What juvenile TV Western star was shot by Wayne in "Dorado"?

Answer: (two words)
20. What did Wayne suffer from in "El Dorado"? Hint

snake bite
gamy leg
arthritis
a bullet in his back

21. What period does 1970's "Rio Lobo" begin in? Hint

Spanish-American War
Civil War
Mexican War
1890's

22. What famed writer has a one-line role in "Lobo"? Hint

Louis L'Amour
Norman Mailer
George Plimpton
Stephen King

23. What "Little House" actor plays "Lobo's" villain, the man Wayne is after?

Answer: (two words)
24. What film producer also acted in "Lobo"? Hint

Sherry Lansing
Jerry Bruckheimer
Robert Evans
Don Simpson

25. What is most notable about "Lobo"? Hint

It is Hawks' first Mexican film
it is Hawks' last film
it is Hawks' first film with Richard Widmark
it is Hawks' first 3-D film


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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. What was Wayne's line of work in 1948's "Red River"?

Answer: cattle baron

Wayne was Tom Dunson, so obsessed with getting his herd to the Midwest markets he became a tyrant running roughshod over his men. On seeing his performance Ford exclaimed "I never knew [he] could act!"
2. Who debuted in "Red River" as Matt Garth, Dunson's adopted son who later rebels against him?

Answer: Montgomery Clift

Dunson found Garth as a boy after the Indian massacre that cost him his fiance. Clift went on to "A Place In The Sun" and "From Here To Eternity".
3. Who was "River's" female lead, who co-starred again with Wayne in a John Ford film?

Answer: Joanne Dru

Cliff meets and falls for Dru when she and her companions are attacked by Indians. Later, Wayne, aiming to kill Cliff for his mutiny, is more interested in her for her giving him a birth son. At the end, she breaks up their fistfight. She also starred with Wayne in "She Wore A Yellow Ribbon".
4. What letter was added to the Dunson brand at the end of "River"?

Answer: M

M for Matt, beside the Dunson D. After their reconciliation, Wayne decides Cliff has "earned it".
5. What 70's picture did "River" appear in?

Answer: The Last Picture Show

Peter Bogdonovich had "River" as the final movie shown at the failed theatre in a Texas town.
6. What was Wayne's job in 1959's "Rio Bravo"?

Answer: sheriff

Here, Wayne's sheriff, John T. Chance, must guard murderer Claude Akins against attempts by the latter's rich brother to spring him.
7. What popular singers teamed with Wayne in "Rio Bravo"?

Answer: Dean Martin and Ricky Nelson

Nelson was Colorado, who joined the group after his boss Ward Bond was gunned down by the villians. Martin was Dude, who became a drunk after a girl dumped him. Martin's performance will be a revelation to those who know him from his "Matt Helm" travesties. Martin later teamed with Sinatra in "Four For Texas" and Fabian with Wayne in "North To Alaska".
8. Who was Duke's girl in "Rio Bravo"?

Answer: Angie Dickinson

Dickinson played "Feathers", a flamboyant saloon girl passing through town but staying and falling in love with Wayne. Ann-Margaret later teamed with Wayne in "The Train Robbers".
9. What "River" co-star reteamed with Wayne in "Rio Bravo"?

Answer: Walter Brennan

Brennan had a gallery of memorable roles to his credit; Groot in "River" and Stumpy in "Bravo" are just two of them.
10. What future filmmaker took the name of Wayne's character in "Rio Bravo"?

Answer: John Carpenter

Carpenter edited his early film "Assault On Precinct 13" as "John T. Chance". He is a longtime Hawks buff and later remade the Hawks-produced "The Thing".
11. Where was the setting of 1962's "Hatari!"?

Answer: Africa

The odd one out in the quintet, "Hatari!" stars Wayne as Sean Mercer, head of a group of big game trappers in Africa, catching animals for zoos.
12. And what does the title "Hatari!" mean?

Answer: Danger

The Swahili title is proven in the film's beginning, when "The Indian" (played by "King Kong's" Bruce Cabot, who later teamed with Wayne in "The Green Berets") gets wounded by a pursued rhino.
13. What Italian actress was Duke's flame in "Hatari"?

Answer: Elsa Martinelli

Martinelli is best known for her role as "Dallas", a photographer who sets her romantic sights on Wayne.
14. What "Hatari!" co-star reteamed with Wayne in "The Longest Day" (which was not directed by Hawks)?

Answer: Red Buttons

Buttons, who won an Oscar for "Sayonara" was "Pockets", the film's comic relief. In "Day" he was one of Wayne's paratroopers who gets hung up on a church steeple and goes temporarily deaf from the bells.
15. Who was "Hatari's" composer?

Answer: Henry Mancini

Mancini had a smash hit with his "Baby Elephant Walk" from the film. At the climax, Mancini reprises it over the slapstick chase where the baby elephants are used by Wayne to track down the fleeing Martinelli.
16. Who was the co-star in 1967's "El Dorado"?

Answer: Robert Mitchum

Mitchum's J.P. Harra was a much broader replay of Martin's Dude from "Bravo".
17. What future star of "The Godfather" co-starred in "El Dorado"?

Answer: James Caan

Caan played Mississippi, who wore an unusual hat and carried an old fowling piece because he couldn't shoot a pistol. He was also fond of quoting from the Edgar Allan Poe poem "El Dorado", which gave the film its title. Duvall teamed with Wayne two years later in "True Grit".
18. What actor, better known in his television role as a TV station boss on one of the most loved sitcoms (and later a newspaper editor on his own spinoff), played "Dorado's" villian?

Answer: Ed Asner

Before being Lou Grant, who started on the "Mary Tyler Moore" show as a station boss and became a newspaper editor later on the "MTM" spinoff titled after him) Asner was villian Bart Jason, bent on grabbing cattle land from the MacDonald family.
19. What juvenile TV Western star was shot by Wayne in "Dorado"?

Answer: Johnny Crawford

Crawford, Chuck Connors' son in "The Rifleman", played Luke MacDonald, postng guard over the family herd. He shot at Wayne, thinking him a bad guy and got shot in return. He later starred in Carpenter's short "The Resurrection of Bronco Billy".
20. What did Wayne suffer from in "El Dorado"?

Answer: a bullet in his back

Put there by vengeful sister Joey MacDonald (Michelle Carey) after Wayne brings brother Luke's body back to the family ranch. She later joins his cause, though, and guns down Jason at the climax.
21. What period does 1970's "Rio Lobo" begin in?

Answer: Civil War

It starts with a Confederate robbery of gold from a Yankee train, abetted by a traitor Wayne hunts down afterwards.
22. What famed writer has a one-line role in "Lobo"?

Answer: George Plimpton

Best known for "Paper Lion", Plimpton is the villian who comes up behind Wayne and says "I got a warrant right here, sheriff!"
23. What "Little House" actor plays "Lobo's" villain, the man Wayne is after?

Answer: Victor French

French is also the head of the outlaw ring that has taken over the town of Rio Lobo.
24. What film producer also acted in "Lobo"?

Answer: Sherry Lansing

Lansing played Shasta, one of Wayne's group.
25. What is most notable about "Lobo"?

Answer: it is Hawks' last film

Hawks died seven years after "Lobo". But what a lot of great films he left us!
Source: Author tjoebigham

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