Q 01/05

As of 2025, John Ford still holds which Best Director record?

A) Most nominations

B) Most wins

C) Youngest winner

D) Oldest winner

Answer · why

B) Most wins

Most wins: four Oscars, from The Informer in 1935 to The Quiet Man in 1952, yet not one of them came for a Western, the genre he is best known for.

Q 02/05

Under what surname was John Ford born?

A) Gallagher

B) Fitzgerald

C) Flaherty

D) Feeney

Answer · why

D) Feeney

Feeney. Records show he was born John Martin Feeney, yet in later life he often claimed to be Sean Aloysius O'Feeney.

Q 03/05

John Ford, master of the Western, was born on the Atlantic coast of which state?

A) New Jersey

B) Virginia

C) Maine

D) Georgia

Answer · why

C) Maine

Maine. Born in Cape Elizabeth to Irish immigrants, he grew up in Portland and left in 1914 to join his older brother in Hollywood.

Q 04/05

Which nickname did John Ford earn as a hard-charging high school fullback?

A) Moose

B) Tank

C) Bull

D) Rhino

Answer · why

C) Bull

Bull. Football followed him to Hollywood: for Salute (1929) he hired the USC team as extras, among them John Wayne and Ward Bond.

Q 05/05

John Ford broke into films in 1914 working for which older brother, already a Hollywood actor-director?

A) Patrick

B) Francis

C) Edward

D) Daniel

Answer · why

B) Francis

Francis. He was the famous Ford first: his younger brother borrowed the stage name and started out as his assistant, stunt double and bit player.