Covered Wagon Theater 6

The Western B Movie Stars Dick Foran and Tex Ritter

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

When growing up, our local TV station would broadcast the old Western matinees. Actually, we had one station telecast their programs around dinnertime and another ran them on Saturday morning. For the trivia questions, let’s hit the high trail.

Dick Foran

1. Born in Flemington, New Jersey on June 18, 1910, red-headed John Nicholas Foran was the son of Arthur F. Foran. What elected official was his father?

• New Jersey Senator
• New York Mayor
• New York Governor
• New Jersey Governor

2. What was the 1948 film did Dick Foran play the character Sergeant Quincannon.

• Fort Apache
• She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
• Rio Grande
• Custer of the 7th

3. What is the film that Dick Foran debuts as a singing cowboy?

• Moonlight On The Prairie
• Treachery Rides The Range
• Trailin' West
• California Mail

4. In 1942, Dick is in the cast of this Western “Ride ‘Em Cowboy. It is a story about New York hot-dog vendors tricked into going West to a dude ranch. Who were the movie’s stars?

• Abbott & Costello
• Johnny Mack Brown
• Ella Fitzgerald
• Charles Starrett

5. What is Dick’s last series Western? Because the Warner Brothers decided to stop production of B-Westerns.

• Prairie Thunder
• Empty Holsters
• Devil's Saddle Legion
• Land Beyond The Law

Tex Ritter

6. Tex was born as Woodward Maurice Ritter on January 12, 1905. Where was he born?

• Murvaul, Texas
• Murvaul, Oklahoma
• Murvaul, Louisiana
• Murvaul, Arkansas

7. What is the 1936 film that introduces movie fans to Tex Ritter?

• Trouble in Texas
• Arizona Days
• Headin' for the Rio Grande
• Song of the Gringo

8. In 1945, Tex had the Number 1 1945 Country Song on Billboards list. What is the song?

• “I'm Wasting My Tears on You”
• “You Two-Timed Me Once Too Often”
• “You Will Have to Pay”
• “I Dreamed of a Hillbilly Heaven”

9. What was his white horse’s name?

• White Lightning
• Moonbeam
• White Flash
• Diamond

10. What was the Western series that starred Johnny Mack Brown, Tex Ritter and Fuzzy Knight?

• The Border Rangers
• The Trigger Pals
• The Frontier Marshals
• The Texas Rangers

Check Your Answers

• 1. New Jersey Senator
• 2. Fort Apache
• 3. Moonlight On The Prairie
• 4. Abbott & Costello
• 5. Prairie Thunder

• 6. Murvaul, Texas
• 7. Song of the Gringo
• 8. “You Two-Timed Me Once Too Often”
• 9. White Flash
• 10. The Border Rangers