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50 free 1923 trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
1923 is the Yellowstone prequel that put Harrison Ford and Helen Mirren on a Montana ranch in the thick of Prohibition, drought and an early Great Depression. Taylor Sheridan wrote it as a direct sequel to 1883, kept Isabel May's Elsa Dutton as narrator, and spread the story from Bozeman to British Kenya, a Catholic boarding school and an ocean liner that was really the Queen Mary in Long Beach. These 50 questions cover both seasons and the people who made them: Jacob and Cara Dutton, Spencer and Alexandra, Banner Creighton and Donald Whitfield, Teonna Rainwater's escape, Zane Davis and the ranch, plus the production story. Expect the working title the show dropped, the Montana city that doubled as Bozeman, the strikes that delayed season two, the wine Sheridan used to sign Ford, and the earlier careers of Timothy Dalton and Jerome Flynn. Easy questions stick to the main cast; the expert tier asks about birth names, ballet companies and guest stars. Every answer is cited to a page we checked, with a short explanation so you learn something even when you miss. Play it solo or print it for a Yellowstone night.
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Q 01Who created the Yellowstone prequel 1923?
Taylor Sheridan
Taylor Sheridan cast his leads before writing a word: he invited each star to his ranch and asked them to commit with no script to read.
Q 02On which streaming service did 1923 premiere?
Paramount+
Paramount+ carries the prequels, yet Yellowstone's own US streaming rights went to rival Peacock in a deal announced in 2020 that the company's chief later called unfortunate.
Q 03Which actress plays Cara Dutton, the family matriarch in 1923?
Helen Mirren
Helen Mirren asked to give Cara an Irish accent, arguing that western settlers were often recent immigrants who would not have sounded like modern Americans.
Q 04Besides running the ranch, Jacob Dutton holds which powerful office in 1923?
Livestock commissioner
Livestock commissioner Jacob rules against Banner Creighton's herders at a hearing in the premiere, and the grudge grows into the range war that runs through the series.
Q 051923 picks up the Dutton family story from which earlier Yellowstone prequel?
1883
1883 was written as a complete story with an ending, so the extra episodes its streamer announced were dropped and a new series set forty years later followed.
Q 06Which Dutton narrates 1923 in voice-over?
Elsa Dutton
Elsa Dutton died at the end of the first prequel, so actress Isabel May returns only as a voice, narrating her family's story from beyond the grave.
Q 07Who plays Spencer Dutton in 1923?
Brandon Sklenar
Brandon Sklenar deliberately bulked up for season two, reasoning that Spencer should look imposing after months spent shovelling coal on a steamship.
Q 08In season two of 1923, Alexandra sails to America from which country?
England
England is where her family took her back after season one; she crosses the Atlantic alone and pregnant to find Spencer.
Q 09How does Donald Whitfield gain a hold over the Dutton ranch in 1923's first finale?
Pays its property taxes
Whitfield pays its property taxes, then tells the Duttons that unless they repay him by the end of the year, the ranch becomes his.
Q 10Which Terminator 2 star plays Sheriff William McDowell, the Duttons' ally in 1923?
Robert Patrick
Robert Patrick's T-1000 only disguised itself as a police officer; in 1923 he wears a badge for real as the sheriff who stands by the Duttons.
Q 11When 1923 opens, Spencer Dutton is hunting big game in which African country?
Kenya
Kenya is where Spencer, haunted by the First World War, hires himself out to hunt man-eating predators rather than go home to Montana.
Q 12Banner Creighton, the Duttons' adversary, is a sheepherder of what nationality?
Scottish
Scottish herders led by Creighton push their starving flocks onto other ranchers' grass during a drought, the trespass that sets off their war with the Duttons.
Q 13In 1923, Donald Whitfield covets the Duttons' valley after making his fortune in which industry?
Mining
Mining made Whitfield rich, but his plan for the Duttons' land is tourism: he pitches investors a ski resort in the middle of their ranch.
Q 21Which old Montana boomtown doubled for Bozeman in the filming of 1923?
Butte
Butte's historic Uptown streets doubled for 1920s Bozeman, and the production rented the town's civic centre as its base.
Q 22Scenes aboard the liner RMS Majestic were shot on which real ship?
RMS Queen Mary
The Queen Mary is a floating hotel docked in Long Beach, California.
Q 23Season two of 1923 moved most of its filming from Montana to which state?
Texas
Texas hosted most of the shoot: the crew worked from studios in Austin, dressed the small town of Bartlett as Amarillo, and went back to Montana only for location scenes.
Q 14In 1923, what does Alexandra walk away from to join Spencer Dutton on his next hunt?
Her engagement
Her engagement ends on the spot: soon after meeting Spencer on safari, Alexandra leaves her aristocratic fiancé to follow the hunter to his next job.
Q 15In 1923, Teonna Rainwater belongs to which Native American nation?
Crow
Crow, or Apsáalooke, is Teonna's nation; her storyline was drawn from the real government-funded, church-run schools built to strip Native children of their culture.
Q 16Who plays Teonna Rainwater in 1923?
Aminah Nieves
Aminah Nieves had played only small and background parts before this role, and has said she had $21 in her bank account when she was cast.
Q 17Why is Jack Dutton's wedding to Elizabeth postponed in the 1923 premiere?
A cattle drive
A cattle drive comes first: with drought killing the grass, Jack must help move the herd to higher ground, leaving Cara to smooth things over with the bride's family.
Q 18What job does Zane Davis hold on the Dutton ranch in 1923?
Foreman
Foreman Zane Davis comes home in season two with a brain injury from a beating in custody, and a doctor has to drill into his skull to relieve the pressure.
Q 19In season two of 1923, which animal's bite forces Elizabeth to endure a course of rabies shots?
A wolf
A wolf that had slaughtered the ranch's chickens bites her, and the pain of the injections is how the family discovers she is pregnant.
Q 20Who marries Spencer and Alexandra in season one of 1923?
A ship's captain
A ship's captain marries them at sea after rescuing them from their capsized tugboat, and offers his own wife's ring for the ceremony.
Q 24What delayed the filming of season two of 1923?
The 2023 Hollywood strikes
The 2023 Hollywood strikes halted work just as cameras were due to roll in Montana, and the producers paid $200,000 to be released from the lease on their production base.
Q 25Harrison Ford and his 1923 on-screen wife first co-starred in which 1986 film?
The Mosquito Coast
The Mosquito Coast also cast the pair as a married couple, with Ford as an inventor who drags his family off to the jungles of Central America.
Q 26In 1923's first finale, Spencer Dutton is challenged to a shipboard duel with which weapons?
Swords
Swords: Spencer wins, but when the loser pulls a gun Spencer throws him overboard, and the dead man's powerful family has Spencer put off the ship.
Q 27Michelle Randolph, 1923's Elizabeth, also stars in which series from the same creator?
Landman
Landman cast her as Billy Bob Thornton's strong-willed daughter Ainsley, and by the time 1923's finale aired she was back filming that show's second season.
Q 28Season two of 1923 reveals the origin of which Yellowstone tradition?
Trips to the train station
Trips to the train station, Yellowstone's code for dumping a body in a lawless corner of Wyoming, turn out to begin with Donald Whitfield rather than with a Dutton.
Q 29Which star of the BBC's 1995 Pride and Prejudice plays the cruel Sister Mary in 1923?
Jennifer Ehle
Jennifer Ehle, the BBC's Elizabeth Bennet, plays a nun so abusive that Teonna finally kills her and flees the boarding school.
Q 30In the 1923 premiere, Montana's rangeland is being stripped by drought and swarms of which insects?
Locusts
Locusts crawl over Jacob and his riders as they survey the ruined grass, and with so little left to graze, ranchers and sheepmen turn on each other.