Q 01/05

The Sons of Katie Elder was delayed for months after John Wayne was diagnosed with which illness?

A) Tuberculosis

B) Lung cancer

C) Hepatitis

D) Malaria

Answer · why

B) Lung cancer

Lung cancer cost Wayne his left lung in 1964, yet when the cameras finally rolled in January he insisted on doing some of his own stunts.

Q 02/05

Which future Easy Rider director plays Dave Hastings, the villain's son, in The Sons of Katie Elder?

A) Peter Fonda

B) Bruce Dern

C) Jack Nicholson

D) Dennis Hopper

Answer · why

D) Dennis Hopper

Dennis Hopper said John Wayne hired him as the son-in-law of Wayne's friend Margaret Sullavan, a break that restarted his stalled film career.

Q 03/05

Which country star recorded a title song for The Sons of Katie Elder that was never used in the film?

A) Johnny Cash

B) Marty Robbins

C) Tex Ritter

D) Buck Owens

Answer · why

A) Johnny Cash

Johnny Cash's single was left out of the picture but placed on the soundtrack LP, and it still climbed into the country top ten in 1965.

Q 04/05

Which actor led Four Brothers, the 2005 Detroit-set action film loosely based on The Sons of Katie Elder?

A) Matt Damon

B) Colin Farrell

C) Ben Affleck

D) Mark Wahlberg

Answer · why

D) Mark Wahlberg

Mark Wahlberg heads a quartet of adopted sons out for revenge, a story director John Singleton moved from the Old West to modern Michigan.

Q 05/05

Big Nose Kate, who also went by Kate Elder, was the longtime companion of which Old West figure?

A) Wyatt Earp

B) Bat Masterson

C) Doc Holliday

D) Wild Bill Hickok

Answer · why

C) Doc Holliday

Doc Holliday's partner lived until 1940, far too late to be the Katie Elder of the film, whose story unfolds in 1898.