Arizona Oddities

Main Menu

  • Home
  • Your Guides
  • Departments
    • Art
    • Dose of History
    • Culture
    • Natural Surroundings
    • Odd Observations
    • Weather Talk
    • Food & Dining
    • Small Town Scene
    • Recreation
    • Only in Arizona
  • Get the Books
  • Contact Us

logo

Arizona Oddities

  • Home
  • Your Guides
  • Departments
    • Art
    • Dose of History
    • Culture
    • Natural Surroundings
    • Odd Observations
    • Weather Talk
    • Food & Dining
    • Small Town Scene
    • Recreation
    • Only in Arizona
  • Get the Books
  • Contact Us
CultureDose of History
Home›Culture›Arizona’s “Hollywood” Trivia: Can You Pass?

Arizona’s “Hollywood” Trivia: Can You Pass?

By Andrea Aker
August 9, 2011
2370
1

Test your knowledge of Arizona’s “Hollywood” scene below, originally published in Marshall Trimble’s Official Arizona Trivia. Don’t scroll down too quickly. The answers are posted shortly below the questions. When you’re finished, leave a comment with your score. Good luck! We have much more Hollywood trivia, so let us know if you enjoy it!

1.  Where was John Ford’s 1939 classic film, “Stagecoach,” filmed?

2.  The stage driver in “Stagecoach” was played by this Arizona native.

Movie Film Strip3.  Although the setting for John Ford’s 1946 film, “My Darling Clementine,” was Tombstone, where was the movie actually filmed?

4.  Which town was the setting for the 1964, Henry Fonda Glenn Ford film, “The Rounders”!

5.  Of which Arizona legend was the 1949 film “Lust For Gold” concerned?

6.  Which role did young Glenn Ford play in “Lust For Gold”?

7.  Michael J. Fox went to this Arizona site to film “Back to 3 the Future: Part III,” in 1989.

8.  Which classic old Arizona hotel was the San Antonio theater setting for the 1971 Paul Newman film, “The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean”?

9.  Sterling Hayden and Joan Crawford filmed this 1954 western in Sedona.

10.  William Holden and Jean Arthur starred in the first movie filmed at Old Tucson. What was it?

11.  Shirley Jones and Gordon MacRae starred in this movie version of a Broadway classic in 1954, filmed near Patagonia.

12.  Which famous stuntman was killed in 1986 at the Vermillion Cliffs while filming, “Million Dollar Indus­try”?

13.  Name the movie actress who was actually kidnapped by a Native American who wanted to ride off into the sunset (and marry her) while she was in Flagstaff making a movie called appropriately enough, “Wilderness Trail”, with Tom Mix.

14.  Sally Kellerman filmed “Rafferty and the Gold Dust Twins” at this famous old saloon-restaurant in Cave Creek.

15.  Which venerable Arizona landmark was “blown up” in “McKenna’s Gold”?

Answers below…

…

…

…

…

…

1.  Monument Valley

2.  Andy Devine

3.  Monument Valley

4.  Sedona

5.  The Lost Dutchman Mine

6.  Jacob Waltz

7.  Monument Valley

8.  Gadsden Hotel in Douglas

9.  “Johnny Guitar”

10.  “Arizona”

11.  “Oklahoma”

12.  Dar Robinson

13.  Coleen Moore. (She was able to escape her would-be suitor after a wild ride in the wil­derness.)

14.  Harold’s Cave Creek Corral

15.  Spider Rock in Canyon de Chelly

(Visited 441 times, 1 visits today)

Related Posts:

  1. Arizona Hotspots & Leisure Trivia 3: Can You Pass?
  2. Arizona Hotspots & Leisure Trivia: Can You Pass?
  3. Arizona Trivia Sampler 4: Can You Pass?
  4. Arizona Hotspots & Leisure Trivia 2: Can You Pass?
  5. Trivia on Arizona Cities & Towns: Can You Pass?
Tagscave creekflagstaffpatagoniasedonasmall townstriviatucson

1 comment

  1. SaraD 21 April, 2012 at 07:06 Reply

    [SPOILER]

    Thirteen out of 15. (I somehow missed seeing #11, but I would’ve known the answer to that so I’m giving myself credit for it. Ha!) Dar Robinson was one of my heroes and I used to live in Cave Creek, so those were a snap.

Leave a reply Cancel reply

Arizona Oddities Archive

Most Popular Posts

  • How to Keep Scorpions Away from Your Home
  • How to Keep Javelinas Away from Your Yard
  • What’s With All the Backyard Concrete-Block Fences…
  • Did You Know it’s Against the Law to Grow…
  • Four Deserts, One State

This Week Past Years

2019

  • 5 Facts About the Southwest’s Strangest, Smelliest Inhabitant – The Javelina

2015

  • A Beer Between the Forked Tree in Flagstaff

2014

  • Mow the Lake?

2013

  • Peach-Faced Love Birds Live in the Valley?

2012

  • Walk in the Path of Ancient Hohokam at Sears-Kay Ruin
  • Rest Stop Marks Border of Gadsden Purchase

2010

  • Why Do People Paint Citrus Tree Trunks White?
  • Elephant Feet in Northern Arizona?
  • Recent

  • Popular

  • Comments

  • Find a Famous Writer and Explorer's Mountain Retreat in Greer

    Find a Famous Writer and Explorer’s Historic Mountain Retreat in Greer

    By Taylor Haynes
    July 31, 2020
  • thousands of Mexican free tail bats make Phoenix tunnel their summer home

    Thousands of Mexican Free-Tail Bats Make Phoenix Tunnel Their Summer Home

    By Taylor Haynes
    July 17, 2020
  • How to Keep Scorpions Away from Your Home

    By Andrea Aker
    January 3, 2011
  • Javelina

    How to Keep Javelinas Away from Your Yard

    By Andrea Aker
    November 23, 2011
  • Phil Motta
    on
    August 27, 2021

    Why Does Downtown Phoenix Seem to Have Two Downtowns?

    I know this post ...
  • Carol
    on
    October 17, 2020

    The Tucson Artifacts are the Southwest’s Greatest Hoax

    lol ... these "clues" ...

Follow us

© Copyright 2009 – 2023 Aker Ink, LLC :: Arizona Oddities is published by Aker Ink.