Western Star Trivia Quizzes

Tim McCoy

Choose an answer from the four choices offered after each question and then "Check Your Answers" at the end of the quiz.

1. Tim McCoy stars in the early film, released both silent and sound versions. This Universal Pictures movie was a hit and proved people would go to a sound Western. What is the film?

2. The 32-year-old Tim McCoy came to Hollywood for the movie “The Covered Wagon.” He had enlisted in the U.S. Army when America entered the World War One. He was commissioned and rose to the rank of colonel, eventually being posted as Adjutant General of Wyoming, a position he held until 1921. What rank did he hold upon resigning?

3. The 52-year-old actor left Hollywood to become an officer in the Air Force during World War Two. What was his last film before leaving for war?

4. In which McCoy Western does he put on an outlaw appearance to hunt down a band of counterfeiters?

5. In this movie, the heroine is being forced off her ranch. McCoy as Tim Hanlon comes to her rescue. However, instead of staying with the leading lady, he rides off to cleanse himself of the killings forced upon him.

Check Your Answers

• 1. The Indians Are Coming is correct.
• 2. Colonel is correct.
• 3. West of the Law is correct.
• 4. Phantom Gold is correct.
• 5. The Man from Guntown is correct.