Super Quiz: Out West

  1. Which city and its arch claim to be the “Gateway to the West”?

  2. The discovery of gold at this site started the California gold rush.

  3. Which Western film won the Best Picture Oscar for 1992?

  4. What trail was used to drive cattle from Texas to Kansas railheads?

  5. What is the dogie in “git along little dogie”?

  6. Who made a fortune selling denim trousers to miners and prospectors?

  7. Of what use was the fringe on buckskin jackets?

  8. What fictional character said, “When you call me that, smile”?

  9. Which Giacomo Puccini opera is set in the West?

Answers 1. St. Louis 2. Sutter’s Mill 3. Unforgiven 4. Chisholm Trail 5. Motherless or stray calf 6. Levi Strauss 7. To shed rain and dry faster 8. The Virginian 9. The Girl of the Golden West (La Fanciulla del West)

MovieStyle, Pages 35 on 09/27/2013

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