Broncho Billy Anderson

Choose an answer from the three choices and True/False offered after each question and then "Check Your Answers" at the end of the quiz.

1. On March 21, 1880, where was Max H. Aronson born?

• New York City
• Little Rock, Arkansas
• St. Louis, Missouri

2. What was his first Western?

• The Great Train Robbery
• The Little Train Robbery
• A Daring Daylight Burglary

3. Using the stage name Gilbert M. Anderson, he began to write, direct, and act in his own Westerns. He became the first cowboy star of movies through a large collection of silent shorts in which he was known as "Broncho Billy".

• True or False?

4. In 1907, Anderson and George Kirke Spoor founded one of the predominant early movie studios. Anderson acted in over 300 short films for the studio. What was the studio?

• Essanay Studios
• Fox
• MGM

5. Writing, acting and, directing most of these movies, Anderson also found time to direct a series of “Alkali Ike” comedy Westerns. Who was “Alkali Ike”?

• Augustus Carney
• Andy Clude
• Al “Fuzzy” St. John

6. He was a producer with a series of shorts with Stan Laurel, including his first work with Oliver Hardy. What was their first together?

7. At age 85, Anderson came out of retirement for a cameo role in The Bounty Killer (1965).

• True or False?

8. What was the first film that Anderson used the character Broncho Billy?

9. In 1918, Shootin' Mad was Gilbert Anderson’s last Broncho Billy film. Who played Broncho Billy in the 1970 Oscar wining Best Short Subject, Live Action Subjects film The Resurrection of Broncho Billy?

• Steve Crumm
• Henry S. Schley
• Johnny Crawford

10. When was he inducted into the Hall of Great Western Performers of the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum?

• 2002
• 1982
• 1962

Where is Broncho Billy Anderson buried?

Check Your Answers

1. Little Rock, Arkansas
2. The Great Train Robbery
3. True
4. Essanay Studios
5. Augustus Carney
6. A Lucky Dog
7. True
8. Broncho Billy's Redemption
9. Johnny Crawford
10. 2002

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