50 free Unforgiven trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
This Unforgiven trivia quiz covers Clint Eastwood's 1992 revisionist Western, the film that won him Best Picture and Best Director and gave Gene Hackman his second Oscar as the pitiless Sheriff 'Little Bill' Daggett. Questions run through the plot (the slashed prostitute, the bounty, the Schofield Kid, English Bob and his biographer, Ned's fate and the shotgun that misfires), the cast, and the lines and themes that made critics call it Eastwood's eulogy for the Man with No Name. There is plenty of behind-the-scenes history too: David Webb Peoples' 1976 script called The William Munny Killings, Francis Ford Coppola's failed option, the memo urging Eastwood to dump it, the Alberta shoot, Richard Harris thinking the casting call was a prank, the dedication to Sergio and Don, the box-office numbers, the AFI rankings and the 2013 Japanese samurai remake with Ken Watanabe. Questions run from easy to expert with the difficulty shown on each one, so it works for a movie night or a serious film-buff challenge. Every answer was checked against a reference page and each question carries its citation. If you enjoy it, try our Clint Eastwood, Westerns and Best Picture quizzes next.
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Q 01Who directed, produced and starred in Unforgiven?
Clint Eastwood
He also composed the main theme, 'Claudia's Theme', named for Munny's dead wife.
Q 02In what year was Unforgiven released?
1992
Warner Bros. put it out on August 7, four days after the premiere at the Mann Bruin Theater.
Q 03What is the name of Eastwood's character, an aging outlaw turned hog farmer?
William Munny
He is a widower raising two children in Hodgeman County, Kansas, when a boastful young stranger rides up.
Q 04Which actor plays Sheriff 'Little Bill' Daggett?
Gene Hackman
His daughters had objected to him doing more violent films; his agent and Eastwood talked him round, and it won him an Oscar.
Q 05Which actor plays Ned Logan, Munny's old partner?
Morgan Freeman
Ned quits after failing to shoot Davey and is later flogged to death by Little Bill.
Q 06Which actor plays the British gunfighter English Bob?
Richard Harris
Eastwood phoned him personally; Harris was watching an old Eastwood western at the time and assumed it was a prank.
Q 07Who wrote the screenplay for Unforgiven?
David Webb Peoples
He had co-written Blade Runner and would go on to write 12 Monkeys.
Q 08Under what title was the script originally written in 1976?
The William Munny Killings
It also went by The Cut-Whore Killings; a famous director optioned it but never raised the money.
Q 09Which director first optioned the script but could not raise the money to make it?
Francis Ford Coppola
Eastwood got it in the early 1980s but sat on it, saying he wanted 'to do some other things first'.
Q 10Which long-time Eastwood story editor wrote a 1984 memo calling the script 'an insult to this company'?
Sonia Chernus
Eight years later the script won four Oscars and a Writers Guild ranking as the 30th greatest ever written.
Q 11In which fictional Wyoming town is the film set?
Big Whiskey
The story is set in 1880; Munny's farm is back in Hodgeman County, Kansas.
Q 12How much is the bounty the prostitutes offer for the two cowboys' deaths?
$1,000
Little Bill had merely fined the cowboys some ponies, payable to the brothel owner for lost revenue.
Q 13Which cowboy slashes Delilah Fitzgerald's face, setting the plot in motion?
Quick Mike
His companion is punished alongside him and is the first of the two to die.
Q 14Which actress plays Delilah Fitzgerald, the disfigured prostitute?
Q 21Who is the first of the two wanted cowboys to be killed, shot by Munny after Ned falters?
Davey Bunting
Ned decides to quit and head home to Kansas after that, which seals his fate.
Q 22Where does the Kid shoot the cowboy who did the slashing?
In an outhouse
Afterwards the Kid drunkenly confesses he had never killed anyone before and gives up his gun.
Q 23What happens to Ned Logan?
Little Bill flogs him to death
His body is propped in a coffin outside Skinny's saloon, which is what brings Munny back into town.
Anna Thomson
Her disfigurement is what drives the other women to raise the bounty.
Q 15Which actress plays Strawberry Alice, the prostitute who organises the bounty?
Frances Fisher
Fisher was Eastwood's partner at the time and later appeared in Titanic.
Q 16What is the nickname of the boastful young would-be bounty hunter who recruits Munny?
The Schofield Kid
Munny and Ned soon discover he is badly near-sighted, and it turns out he has never killed anyone.
Q 17Which actor plays the near-sighted young would-be bounty hunter?
Jaimz Woolvett
Shane Meier plays Munny's son and Lochlyn Munro turns up as Texas Slim.
Q 18Who plays W. W. Beauchamp, the dime-novel biographer who arrives with English Bob?
Saul Rubinek
He stays on after Bob is run out of town, fascinated by Little Bill's demolition of Wild West myths.
Q 19Which town law does Little Bill enforce to disarm and beat English Bob?
A ban on carrying guns
Bob is banished the next morning; Bill later gives Munny the same treatment without knowing who he is.
Q 20According to Little Bill, what matters most for a gunfighter?
Staying cool-headed under fire
His other rule: always kill the best shooter first.
Q 24Whom does Munny kill first when he walks into the saloon in the finale, and why?
Skinny, for displaying Ned's corpse
He then aims at Little Bill, but his weapon misfires and he finishes the fight with a revolver.
Q 25Which weapon misfires when Munny aims it at Little Bill?
A shotgun
Asked afterwards by Beauchamp how he survived, Munny says it was luck.
Q 26According to the closing title card, where may Munny have moved with his children?
San Francisco
His mother-in-law, the card says, never understood why her daughter married such a notorious outlaw.
Q 27How many Academy Awards did Unforgiven win?
Four
It had nine nominations, tying Howards End for the most that year.
Q 28Which Oscar did Eastwood NOT win for Unforgiven?
Best Actor
Al Pacino took Best Actor for Scent of a Woman.
Q 29Who won the Best Film Editing Oscar for Unforgiven?
Joel Cox
Cox was Eastwood's long-time editor at Malpaso.
Q 30Unforgiven was only the third Western to win Best Picture; which two came before it?
Cimarron and Dances with Wolves
Cimarron won for 1931 and Dances with Wolves for 1990, just two years before.