Tombstone Trivia
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89 free Tombstone trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
52 free Tombstone trivia questions with answers. Tombstone was a Christmas 1993 release that got lost in the holiday shuffle and then refused to go away, largely on the strength of Val Kilmer's Doc Holliday. This quiz spends most of its time on the movie: who plays whom in that enormous cast, the writer-director who was fired a month in, Kurt Russell's later claim that he ghost-directed the whole thing, the race against Kevin Costner's Wyatt Earp, the Arizona sets, the red sashes and the box office. The last stretch turns to the real Tombstone, Arizona: Ed Schieffelin's 1877 silver strike, what actually happened in the thirty seconds near the O.K. Corral, who is (and isn't) buried in Boothill, the Bird Cage Theatre, the Epitaph, and how a town that lost its mines managed to become the Town Too Tough to Die. It is built for people who can quote the film and for anyone who has walked Allen Street. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia and other primary references, so the dates, names and figures hold up.
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Q 01Who plays Wyatt Earp in the 1993 film Tombstone?
Kurt Russell
Kurt Russell. With the shoot in chaos, he and producer James Jacks cut some 30 pages from the script to centre the story on Wyatt's friendship with Doc Holliday.
Q 02Which actor plays the tubercular, hard-drinking Doc Holliday in Tombstone?
Val Kilmer
Val Kilmer. The writer wanted Willem Dafoe for the part, but the distributor refused to release the film with him, so Doc went to Kilmer instead.
Q 03In Tombstone, who plays Virgil Earp, the brother who pins on the marshal's badge?
Sam Elliott
Sam Elliott. Virgil pays for the badge: he is ambushed and maimed, yet the closing narration says he went on to serve as a California sheriff with the use of only one arm.
Q 04In Tombstone, who plays Morgan Earp, the youngest of the three Earp brothers?
Bill Paxton
Bill Paxton. His Morgan is shot in the back and dies on a pool table, the killing that sends Wyatt after the Cowboys with a US marshal's badge.
Q 05In Tombstone, Michael Biehn plays which member of the Cowboys gang?
Johnny Ringo
Johnny Ringo. Biehn's gunman calls Wyatt out for a final showdown, but Doc Holliday slips ahead in his friend's place and wins the duel.
Q 06In Tombstone, who plays the Cowboys' leader, "Curly Bill" Brocius?
Powers Boothe
Powers Boothe. His Curly Bill shoots Marshal Fred White dead in the street after a visit to an opium den, then walks free when the case is dismissed for lack of witnesses.
Q 07In Tombstone, which screen legend plays Henry Hooker, the rancher who shelters Wyatt's posse?
Charlton Heston
Charlton Heston. His scenes were shot by the film's original director before he was fired, among the few pieces of that first month's footage to survive into the finished cut.
Q 08Whose voice delivers Tombstone's opening and closing narration?
Robert Mitchum
Robert Mitchum. He was cast as Old Man Clanton until a back injury forced him out; the character was cut from the script and Mitchum stayed on as the narrator.
Q 09In Tombstone, which actress plays Josephine Marcus, the traveling performer Wyatt falls for?
Dana Delany
Dana Delany. The screenwriter had written Josephine for his girlfriend, Lisa Zane, but executives rejected her for the part and it went to Delany.
Q 10Which future Oscar winner plays Johnny Tyler, the card dealer Wyatt throws out of the Oriental in Tombstone?
Billy Bob Thornton
Billy Bob Thornton. Three years before Sling Blade won him an Oscar, he played the armed bully whom an unarmed Wyatt slaps and marches out of the saloon.
Q 11Who wrote Tombstone's screenplay and was fired as its director a month into filming?
Kevin Jarre
Kevin Jarre. The Glory screenwriter was shooting his first film in an old-fashioned John Ford style with very few close-ups, fell behind schedule, and was fired after four weeks.
Q 12Tombstone's star later said he ghost-directed the film, but who is its credited director?
George P. Cosmatos
George P. Cosmatos. The star says he found him by phoning Sylvester Stallone, whom Cosmatos had directed in Rambo: First Blood Part II.
Q 13Which card game does Wyatt deal at the Oriental saloon in Tombstone?
Faro
Faro. Wyatt takes a quarter share of the Oriental's game and deals it with Doc at his side; now all but forgotten, faro was once played in almost every gambling hall in the Old West.
Q 21Which star passed on Tombstone to make his own Wyatt Earp film, released six months later?
Kevin Costner
Kevin Costner. With his agency backing the rival film, Tombstone's producers could not land a star big enough for any studio, and its writer called the move 'an attempt to crush my picture'.
Q 22Who directed Wyatt Earp, the rival film released six months after Tombstone?
Lawrence Kasdan
Lawrence Kasdan. His three-hour epic cost more than twice as much as Tombstone and lost money, while the cheaper film took more than double its budget.
Q 23Who composed Tombstone's score, performed by the Sinfonia of London?
Bruce Broughton
Q 14In Tombstone, which county sheriff, played by Jon Tenney, throws in his lot with the Cowboys?
Johnny Behan
Johnny Behan. The real sheriff had been living with Josephine Marcus in Tombstone before she left him and took up with Wyatt.
Q 15Which composer wrote the nocturne a drunken Doc Holliday plays on the saloon piano in Tombstone?
Chopin
Chopin. A heckling Cowboy mistakes the piece for Stephen Foster's 'Old Dog Tray', and Doc coolly corrects him by naming the composer, with a curse for a middle name.
Q 16Which director cast Tombstone's Doc Holliday as Batman after seeing the performance?
Joel Schumacher
Joel Schumacher. He wanted Tombstone's Doc for Bruce Wayne while Michael Keaton still held the role, so when Keaton walked away in July 1994 the studio named its new Batman at once.
Q 17Which line of Doc Holliday's in Tombstone became the title of the actor's 2020 memoir?
I'm your huckleberry
I'm your huckleberry. Doc says it twice to the same gunman: first offering to fight him in the street, then when he turns up for the final duel in Wyatt's place.
Q 18Which critic missed Tombstone in its opening week, then called its Doc Holliday 'the definitive saloon cowboy of our time'?
Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert. He caught up only after dozens of readers wrote to him about the performance, and six months later he marked the rival Wyatt Earp down for failing the comparison.
Q 19Which Robin Williams comedy, already in its fifth weekend, outgrossed Tombstone's opening weekend?
Mrs. Doubtfire
Mrs. Doubtfire. Tombstone opened third, behind it and The Pelican Brief, with $6.5 million, then grew: its second weekend was 35% bigger than its first.
Q 20In Tombstone, Wyatt roars at the fleeing Ike Clanton that he is coming and what is 'coming with me'?
Hell
Hell. Wyatt has just shot Frank Stilwell at the train station, and he lets Ike run so that someone lives to carry the warning back to the rest of the Cowboys.
Bruce Broughton. He had scored the Western Silverado for the man who went on to direct the rival Wyatt Earp, yet that film hired James Newton Howard and Broughton landed on Tombstone.
Q 24On which holiday date did Tombstone open in wide release in the United States?
Christmas Day 1993
Christmas Day 1993. The opening slipped a week from 17 December because the troubled shoot left too little time to finish the film, and the studio did not screen it for critics.
Q 25Which Western filming location, where John Wayne made Rio Bravo, was one of Tombstone's two main sets?
Old Tucson Studios
Old Tucson Studios. Columbia built the town outside Tucson as a set for the 1940 film Arizona, Hollywood kept coming back to shoot Westerns there, and in 1960 it opened to the public as a theme park.
Q 26In Tombstone's final act, where does Doc Holliday spend his last days?
A Colorado sanatorium
A Colorado sanatorium. Doc sends Wyatt away to find Josephine and live, then dies looking down at his bare feet with the words, 'This is funny.'
Q 27In Tombstone, what do members of the Cowboys gang wear to mark their allegiance?
A red sash
A red sash. Wyatt vows to kill any man he sees wearing one, and Ike Clanton survives the vendetta only by renouncing his.
Q 28Tombstone opens with the Cowboys shooting up what event in a Mexican town?
A policeman's wedding
A policeman's wedding. The massacre was not in the first director's film: his replacement added the sequence, in which a priest warns of the Four Horsemen before he is shot.
Q 29Tombstone's closing narration names which two Western movie stars among Wyatt's pallbearers?
William S. Hart and Tom Mix
William S. Hart and Tom Mix. Both silent-film cowboys had befriended the old lawman in his last years, and the narration ends on three words: 'Tom Mix wept.'
Q 30In Tombstone, the touring actor Fabian wins over the Cowboys with the 'band of brothers' speech from which Shakespeare play?
Henry V
Henry V. Billy Zane's Fabian delivers the St Crispin's Day speech in doublet and tights, and the first man on his feet applauding is the Cowboys' own leader, Curly Bill.