Q 01/05

Creator Michael Garrison conceived The Wild Wild West as which famous fictional spy on horseback?

A) Napoleon Solo

B) James Bond

C) Matt Helm

D) Maxwell Smart

Answer · why

B) James Bond

James Bond was the model: beautiful women, clever gadgets and megalomaniac villains, all moved to the 1870s frontier. Westerns were losing viewers to ...

Q 02/05

In The Wild Wild West, James West served on which future president's Civil War staff before guarding him?

A) Rutherford B. Hayes

B) James A. Garfield

C) Ulysses S. Grant

D) Benjamin Harrison

Answer · why

C) Ulysses S. Grant

Ulysses S. Grant is the president the agents answer to, and the series is set during his two terms, from 1869 to 1877. West had been a cavalry and int...

Q 03/05

Which actor performed nearly all of his own stunts as agent James West on The Wild Wild West?

A) Robert Conrad

B) Robert Vaughn

C) Clint Eastwood

D) Robert Culp

Answer · why

A) Robert Conrad

Robert Conrad volunteered for the jumps and falls because setting up stuntmen slowed filming and strained the budget. He also helped choreograph the t...

Q 04/05

Which agency sends James West and Artemus Gordon out on a private train in The Wild Wild West?

A) The US Marshals

B) The Pinkertons

C) The Customs Service

D) The Secret Service

Answer · why

D) The Secret Service

The Secret Service gives the pair their missions throughout the series. In the 1999 film they only join it at the very end, as its first two agents.

Q 05/05

The Wild Wild West was cancelled in its fourth season amid a Congressional outcry over which issue?

A) TV violence

B) Tobacco advertising

C) Quiz show rigging

D) Political bias

Answer · why

A) TV violence

TV violence came under fire after the assassinations of 1968, and the network dropped the show as a gesture of good intentions. Its last episodes had ...