Unforgiven Trivia
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49 free Unforgiven trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 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 01Which disease killed William Munny's wife before the events of Unforgiven?
Smallpox
Smallpox took her in 1878, the opening text says, adding that her mother had expected her to die at Munny's own hands instead.
Q 02Unforgiven was Clint Eastwood's first Western since which film?
Pale Rider
Pale Rider came out seven years earlier, in 1985; Eastwood took an option on the Unforgiven script around then and let it wait for years.
Q 03Which animals is William Munny struggling to raise on his Kansas farm as Unforgiven begins?
Hogs
Hogs, and they are dying of fever: Munny keeps falling in the mud of the pen as he tries to separate the sick animals from the healthy.
Q 04Which actor plays Sheriff 'Little Bill' Daggett in Unforgiven?
Gene Hackman
Gene Hackman's sheriff keeps the peace by beating visiting gunmen senseless in the street, a performance that won him his second Oscar.
Q 05Which actor plays Ned Logan, William Munny's old partner in Unforgiven?
Morgan Freeman
Morgan Freeman's Ned is a crack shot with a Spencer rifle who finds, when the moment comes, that he can no longer kill a man.
Q 06Which actor plays the British gunfighter English Bob in Unforgiven?
Richard Harris
Richard Harris's gunfighter arrives lecturing Americans on royalty and leaves beaten and jailed, cursing the townsfolk as 'bloody savages'.
Q 07Who wrote the screenplay for Unforgiven?
David Webb Peoples
David Webb Peoples wrote it in 1976, when Westerns were out of fashion, and then waited some fifteen years to see it filmed.
Q 08Which title did the Unforgiven script carry on its 1984 production draft?
The William Munny Killings
The William Munny Killings was itself a second thought: the 1976 script began life under the blunter title The Cut-Whore Killings.
Q 09Which director optioned the Unforgiven script before Clint Eastwood but could not find the money to make it?
Francis Ford Coppola
Francis Ford Coppola took it around without finding financing; Eastwood then picked it up and, the writer recalled, twice promised to make it 'next year'.
Q 10What did Eastwood's own story editor urge him to do with the Unforgiven script?
Get rid of it fast
Get rid of it fast, wrote Sonia Chernus, who called the script trash; Eastwood filmed it anyway, and it was nominated for the screenplay Oscar.
Q 11In which fictional Wyoming town is Unforgiven set?
Big Whiskey
Big Whiskey never existed: production designer Henry Bumstead's crew built the whole town as a set on remote ranch land.
Q 12How much is the bounty Unforgiven's prostitutes offer for the two cowboys' deaths?
$1,000
$1,000 is what the brothel's women pool from their savings after Little Bill lets the two cowboys off without so much as a whipping.
Q 13Which cowboy slashes Delilah Fitzgerald's face, setting the plot of Unforgiven in motion?
Quick Mike
Quick Mike takes a knife to her because she giggled at him; his partner cut no one, yet is punished alongside him.
Q 21Who is the first of Unforgiven's two wanted cowboys to be killed, shot by Munny after Ned falters?
Davey Bunting
Davey Bunting had tried to make amends to the women, who drove him off; Ned cannot bring himself to finish him, so Munny does.
Q 22In Unforgiven, where does the Kid shoot the cowboy who did the slashing?
In an outhouse
In an outhouse, on Munny's instructions: afterwards the Kid breaks down, admits it was his first killing and gives up his gun for good.
Q 23What happens to Ned Logan in Unforgiven?
Little Bill flogs him to death
Little Bill flogs him to death trying to learn where his partners are, though Ned had already quit the hunt without killing anyone.
Q 14In Unforgiven, what does Little Bill make the two cowboys hand over as punishment for attacking Delilah?
Ponies
Ponies, seven in all, which go to her employer Skinny as payment for 'damaged property'; Delilah gets nothing, so the women raise a bounty.
Q 15Which actress plays Strawberry Alice, who organises the bounty in Unforgiven?
Frances Fisher
Frances Fisher's Alice explodes at Little Bill's leniency, asking 'You ain't even gonna whip 'em?', then turns the women's savings into a price on two heads.
Q 16What is the nickname of the boastful young would-be bounty hunter who recruits Munny in Unforgiven?
The Schofield Kid
The Schofield Kid takes his name from his Smith & Wesson revolver, but he is too near-sighted to shoot far and, it turns out, has never killed anyone.
Q 17What is Sheriff Little Bill, a famously bad carpenter, building in his spare time in Unforgiven?
A house
A house, with not one straight angle in it, his deputies say; the roof leaks, and 'I was building a house' is among his dying words.
Q 18Who plays W. W. Beauchamp, the dime-novel biographer who arrives with English Bob in Unforgiven?
Saul Rubinek
Saul Rubinek's Beauchamp stays on after Bob is run out of town, transferring his hero-worship to Little Bill, who debunks his Wild West tales.
Q 19Which town ordinance gives Little Bill his excuse to beat English Bob on arrival in Unforgiven?
A ban on carrying guns
A ban on carrying guns is posted at the town limits; Bob ignores it, and Little Bill makes his beating a public warning to other bounty hunters.
Q 20In Unforgiven, what does Little Bill say matters most for a gunfighter?
Staying cool-headed under fire
Staying cool-headed under fire beats a quick draw, he tells Beauchamp: a man who keeps his head will likely kill a faster one who hurries.
Q 24Whom does Munny shoot first on entering the saloon in Unforgiven's finale, and why?
Skinny, for displaying Ned's corpse
Skinny, for displaying Ned's corpse outside his saloon: the owner is unarmed, and Munny says he should have armed himself before decorating the place with his friend.
Q 25Which weapon misfires when Munny aims it at Little Bill in Unforgiven's finale?
A shotgun
A shotgun: when it misfires Munny hurls it at the sheriff and draws a revolver, later telling Beauchamp he was simply lucky in the order.
Q 26According to Unforgiven's closing title card, where may Munny have moved with his children?
San Francisco
San Francisco is where the closing card says he was rumoured to have prospered in dry goods, leaving his late wife's mother none the wiser about the marriage.
Q 27Which film tied Unforgiven for the most Oscar nominations for 1992?
Howards End
Howards End matched its nine nominations, but the period drama lost Best Picture to a Western, a genre that had won only twice before.
Q 28In Unforgiven, English Bob's biography calls him 'the Duke of Death'; how does Little Bill misread 'Duke'?
Duck
Duck is how the sheriff reads it, and he keeps it up while telling the biographer the true story: a drunk Bob shot a man whose pistol had blown up in his hand.
Q 29Besides Picture, Director and Supporting Actor, which fourth Oscar did Unforgiven win?
Film Editing
Film Editing went to Joel Cox, Eastwood's regular editor, while the script Eastwood had held for years lost its category to The Crying Game.
Q 30Unforgiven was only the third Western to win Best Picture; which two came before it?
Cimarron and Dances with Wolves
Cimarron and Dances with Wolves stood almost sixty years apart: after the 1931 winner the genre went without the top prize until 1990, then took it twice in three years.