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52 free Tombstone trivia questions with answers. Tombstone was a Christmas 1993 release that got lost in the holiday shuffle and then refused to go away, largely on the strength of Val Kilmer's Doc Holliday. This quiz spends most of its time on the movie: who plays whom in that enormous cast, the writer-director who was fired a month in, Kurt Russell's later claim that he ghost-directed the whole thing, the race against Kevin Costner's Wyatt Earp, the Arizona sets, the red sashes and the box office. The last stretch turns to the real Tombstone, Arizona: Ed Schieffelin's 1877 silver strike, what actually happened in the thirty seconds near the O.K. Corral, who is (and isn't) buried in Boothill, the Bird Cage Theatre, the Epitaph, and how a town that lost its mines managed to become the Town Too Tough to Die. It is built for people who can quote the film and for anyone who has walked Allen Street. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia and other primary references, so the dates, names and figures hold up.
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Q 01Who plays Wyatt Earp in the 1993 film Tombstone?
Kurt Russell
He and producer James Jacks trimmed the sprawling script during shooting to focus on the Wyatt–Doc friendship.
Q 02Which actor's turn as the tubercular, hard-drinking Doc Holliday drew the film's most praise?
Val Kilmer
Roger Ebert later called the performance the definitive saloon cowboy of our time.
Q 03Who plays Virgil Earp, the brother who takes the marshal's badge?
Sam Elliott
The same year he played General John Buford in Gettysburg, another mustache-heavy role.
Q 04Who plays Morgan Earp, the youngest brother?
Bill Paxton
Morgan is the brother killed by a shot through a window in the film's second half.
Q 05Michael Biehn plays which member of the Cowboys?
Johnny Ringo
Biehn was a close friend of the original director and considered quitting when he was fired.
Q 06Who plays the Cowboys' leader, "Curly Bill" Brocius?
Powers Boothe
In the film Curly Bill is acquitted of killing Marshal Fred White for lack of witnesses.
Q 07Which screen legend plays rancher Henry Hooker, who shelters the posse?
Charlton Heston
Harry Carey Jr., a veteran of John Ford's stock company, is also in the cast as Marshal Fred White.
Q 08Whose voice delivers the film's opening and closing narration?
Robert Mitchum
The closing voice-over notes that Wyatt and Josephine stayed together 47 years until his death in 1929.
Q 09Which actress plays Josephine Marcus, the traveling performer Wyatt falls for?
Dana Delany
She recalled the replacement director's very first day on set was her big love scene in the field.
Q 10Billy Bob Thornton ad-libbed his lines as card dealer Johnny Tyler; what was his only direction?
Be a bully
The scene exists to show Wyatt using psychology rather than a gun to intimidate.
Q 11Who wrote the screenplay and was fired as director a month into filming?
Kevin Jarre
He had written Glory and was overwhelmed by his first directing job, falling behind schedule.
Q 12The actor playing Wyatt claimed he ghost-directed the film. Who is the credited director?
George P. Cosmatos
He had directed Rambo: First Blood Part II for the same executive producer.
Q 13According to the star, which action actor recommended the replacement director to him?
Sylvester Stallone
The star said he promised to keep the ghost-directing arrangement secret while the credited director lived.
Q 21Kevin Costner quit before making a rival 1994 film. What was his dispute with the writer?
Focus on Earp alone, not an ensemble
Costner then used his clout to press studios not to distribute the competing film.
Q 22Who directed the rival 1994 film Wyatt Earp, released six months later?
Lawrence Kasdan
It ran three hours, cost $63 million and grossed less than the $25 million Tombstone.
Q 23Who composed the film's score, performed by the Sinfonia of London?
Bruce Broughton
He was Oscar-nominated for another Western, Silverado, and lost to Out of Africa.
Q 14Every mustache in the film was real except one. Which character's actor wore the fake?
Sheriff Johnny Behan
Jon Tenney had to be clean-shaven for his previous project.
Q 15Doc plays a nocturne on the piano. Which composer wrote it?
Chopin
The actor could not play piano and rehearsed that single piece for months.
Q 16Which director cast the film's Doc Holliday as Batman after seeing his performance?
Joel Schumacher
Michael Keaton walked away from a third Batman film over creative differences seven months later.
Q 17The Doc Holliday actor's 2020 memoir takes its title from which line?
I'm your huckleberry
It came out a year before the documentary Val about his career and cancer treatment.
Q 18Roger Ebert said reading that which politician loved the Doc Holliday performance pushed him to see the film?
Bill Clinton
Ebert recommended the movie; his partner Gene Siskel did not.
Q 19Tombstone opened in third place at the US box office. Which two films beat it?
The Pelican Brief and Mrs. Doubtfire
Its takings actually rose 35% in week two, unusual for a wide release.
Q 20Roughly how much did the film gross worldwide?
$73 million
It ranks around 25th among Westerns released since 1979.
Q 24On what date did the film open in wide release in the United States?
Christmas Day 1993
The soundtrack album was released the very same day.
Q 25Which studio-theme park, built in 1939 for the film Arizona, supplied the movie's main street?
Old Tucson Studios
Rio Bravo, El Dorado and the 1957 Gunfight at the O.K. Corral were all shot on the same lot.
Q 26Besides Old Tucson, which Cochise County movie set was combined to make the town look bigger?
Mescal
The same set later stood in for the town of Redemption in The Quick and the Dead.
Q 27In the film, what does a member of the Cowboys gang wear to mark his allegiance?
A red sash
Ike Clanton survives the vendetta at the end by tearing his off and renouncing the gang.
Q 28The film opens with the Cowboys shooting up what event in a Mexican town?
A policeman's wedding
A priest warns them of the Four Horsemen before he is shot, a prophecy Wyatt's posse fulfills.
Q 29The closing narration names which two Western movie stars among Wyatt's pallbearers?
William S. Hart and Tom Mix
The real Wyatt died in Los Angeles in 1929 at 80, the last survivor of the gunfight.
Q 30Who wrote the 1994 paperback novelization of the screenplay?
Giles Tippette
It was published by Berkley on New Year's Day 1994, a week after the film opened.