Western Movies Trivia Q&A

The Magnificent Seven

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

1. This 1960 movie was based on what movie?

2. The film's score along with the famous main theme is by Elmer Bernstein. The score was nominated for an Academy Award in 1961. Who won the award that year.

3. A Mexican village is periodically raided by a gang of bandits led by Calvera. Who played Calvera?

• Natividad Vacío
• Eli Wallach
• Jorge Martínez de Hoyos

4. Who said, “If God didn't want them sheared, he would not have made them sheep.”?

• Calvera
• Old Man
• Vin

5. Where was the movie filmed?

• Durango, Mexico
• Old Tucson, Arizona
• Burbank Studios, California

6. Who directed the movie?

• John Ford
• Otto Grainger
• John Sturges

7. Who plays the gunfighter Bernardo O'Reilly?

• Charles Bronson
• Lee Van Cleef
• James Drury

8. Which actor would later played the recurring character Judge Oren Travis in the television series The Magnificent Seven (1998).

• Robert Vaughn
• Charles Bronson
• James Coburn

9. Which American gunfighter gets Petra in the end?

• Vin (Steve McQueen)
• Harry Luck (Brad Dexter)
• Chico (Horst Buchholz)

10. The film shares three of its stars (Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson and James Coburn), its director and producer (John Sturges), its composer (Elmer Bernstein), and an uncredited screenwriter (Walter Newman). What was the film?

• The Great Escape (1963)
• Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)
• Joe Kidd (1972)

Check Your Answers

• 1. Seven Samurai
• 2. Exodus
• 3. Eli Wallach
• 4. Calvera
• 5. Durango, Mexico
• 6. John Sturges
• 7. Charles Bronson
• 8. Robert Vaughn
• 9. Chico (Horst Buchholz)
• 10. The Great Escape (1963)