Q 01/05

After Roy Rogers's famous palomino died in 1965, how did the cowboy star keep the horse on public view?

A) As a taxidermy mount

B) As a bronze statue

C) As a wax figure

D) As a painted mural

Answer · why

A) As a taxidermy mount

As a taxidermy mount, the palomino greeted visitors from the day the Roy Rogers museum opened in 1967. His hide was stretched over a foam likeness by ...

Q 02/05

A Roy Rogers, the mocktail named for the cowboy star, mixes grenadine syrup with which soft drink?

A) Ginger ale

B) Cola

C) Root beer

D) Lemonade

Answer · why

B) Cola

Cola is what separates the drink from a Shirley Temple, which uses ginger ale or lemon-lime soda. It was probably named for him because he did not dri...

Q 03/05

In which 1988 action film does the hero adopt the pseudonym Roy in tribute to cowboy star Roy Rogers?

A) Rambo III

B) Red Heat

C) Die Hard

D) Midnight Run

Answer · why

C) Die Hard

Die Hard has Bruce Willis's John McClane call himself Roy, and its makers drew his cowboy catchphrase from old Western lingo that the singing star had...

Q 04/05

Which skill did trainers call the greatest accomplishment of Roy Rogers's trick-trained horse?

A) Counting to twenty

B) Untying knots

C) Opening stable doors

D) Being housebroken

Answer · why

D) Being housebroken

Being housebroken was the cowboy star's most carefully guarded trade secret, because the horse spent so much time in hotels, theaters and hospitals. H...

Q 05/05

What was the name of Roy Rogers's palomino stallion, his co-star in films and on television?

A) Trigger

B) Champion

C) Silver

D) Scout

Answer · why

A) Trigger

Trigger got the name for his quickness of both foot and mind. The stallion could reportedly walk 50 feet on his hind legs and sign an X with a pencil.