Q 01/05

Billy the Kid was born under what name?

A) Henry McCarty

B) William Bonney

C) Henry Antrim

D) William Wright

Answer · why

A) Henry McCarty

Billy the Kid was born Henry McCarty in New York around 1859; he later used the aliases Henry Antrim and William H. Bonney.

Q 02/05

Which sheriff shot and killed Billy the Kid at Fort Sumner in 1881?

A) Bat Masterson

B) Pat Garrett

C) Seth Bullock

D) Bill Tilghman

Answer · why

B) Pat Garrett

Pat Garrett, sheriff of Lincoln County, shot the Kid in Pete Maxwell's darkened bedroom at Fort Sumner on 14 July 1881.

Q 03/05

Billy the Kid rose to fame as one of the Regulators in which New Mexico conflict?

A) Johnson County War

B) Pleasant Valley War

C) Lincoln County War

D) Colfax County War

Answer · why

C) Lincoln County War

The Lincoln County War (1878) pitted the Regulators, formed to avenge the murder of English rancher John Tunstall, against the Murphy-Dolan faction.

Q 04/05

The only authenticated photograph of Billy the Kid sold at auction in 2011 for how much?

A) $1.1 million

B) $4.6 million

C) $650,000

D) $2.3 million

Answer · why

D) $2.3 million

The 1880 tintype of Billy the Kid fetched $2.3 million at a Denver auction in June 2011; the buyer was businessman William Koch.

Q 05/05

The 1881 Gunfight at the O.K. Corral actually took place in a vacant lot fronting which thoroughfare?

A) Fremont

B) Allen

C) Toughnut

D) Fifth

Answer · why

A) Fremont

The fight happened on Fremont Street, in a narrow lot beside C. S. Fly's photography studio, six doors west of the corral's rear entrance.