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
Sheridan also created 1883 and co-created Yellowstone itself.
Q 02On which streaming service did 1923 premiere?
Paramount+
Paramount said the debut was the service's biggest ever.
Q 03Which actress plays Cara Dutton, matriarch of the family?
Helen Mirren
Mirren won Critics' Choice Super and Satellite awards for the role.
Q 04Who plays Jacob Dutton, patriarch of the ranch?
Harrison Ford
Ford accepted the role before a script existed.
Q 051923 is a direct sequel to which earlier series?
1883
It is the third television series in the Yellowstone franchise.
Q 06Which character narrates the series?
Elsa Dutton
Isabel May reprised the voice role she played on screen in 1883.
Q 07Who plays Spencer Dutton?
Brandon Sklenar
Sklenar went on to star in It Ends with Us and The Housemaid.
Q 08In which month and year did the second and final season premiere?
February 2025
The finale aired on April 6, 2025.
Q 09How many episodes does the whole series have?
16
Two seasons of eight episodes each, as originally designed.
Q 10Under what title was the series originally announced?
1932
The rename to 1923 came in June 2022, four months after the order.
Q 11Spencer Dutton is tracking big game in which colony when the series opens?
British Kenya
Scenes were filmed in Kenya, Tanzania, South Africa and Malta.
Q 12Banner Creighton, the Duttons' adversary, is a sheepherder of what nationality?
Scottish
Jerome Flynn, Bronn from Game of Thrones, plays him.
Q 13Which character does Dalton play?
Donald Whitfield
Whitfield is a wealthy tycoon used to getting what he wants.
Q 14Julia Schlaepfer plays which upper-class Briton who meets Spencer in Africa?
Q 21Which Montana city stood in for Bozeman during filming?
Butte
Pre-production began there in July 2022.
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 filming began in July 2024 near which Texas city?
Austin
Production then moved to Butte for October and November.
Q 24What delayed the filming of season two?
Alexandra
Schlaepfer was previously Alice Charles in The Politician.
Q 15Teonna Rainwater belongs to which Native nation?
Crow
She is taken from her family and placed in a government-funded boarding school.
Q 16Who plays Teonna Rainwater?
Aminah Nieves
Nieves earned award nominations for the breakthrough performance.
Q 17Who plays Jack Dutton, the family's dedicated young rancher?
Darren Mann
Jack is John Dutton Sr.'s only child and Jacob's great-nephew.
Q 18What job does Zane Davis hold at the Dutton ranch?
Foreman
Brian Geraghty plays the fiercely loyal Zane.
Q 19Jennifer Ehle's Sister Mary is a nun of what nationality?
Irish
Sister Mary clashes repeatedly with Teonna at the boarding school.
Q 20Father Renaud, the boarding-school headmaster, is of what nationality?
French
Sebastian Roché plays the narcissistic priest.
The 2023 Hollywood strikes
Both the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes pushed filming into 2024.
Q 25In which 1986 film had Mirren and Ford previously co-starred?
The Mosquito Coast
That Peter Weir film was released 36 years before they were cast in 1923.
Q 26The series was predicted to cost how much per episode?
$30–35 million
Sheridan called 1883 the most expensive first season ever and 1923 much more expensive.
Q 27How many viewers did the studio claim for the debut episode?
7.4 million
The number combined linear and streaming telecasts.
Q 28What Rotten Tomatoes score does season two hold?
100%
Season one sits at 88% on the same site.
Q 29Which prize did Mirren win for playing Cara Dutton?
Critics' Choice Super Award
She won a Satellite Award for the role too.
Q 30Richardson and Hodgson won which award for the show's cinematography?
Camerimage Golden Frog
Ben Richardson was also nominated for his direction.