TV Westerns Trivia Quizzes

Maverick (TV series)

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

1. Roy Huggins (July 18, 1914 – April 3, 2002) was a novelist and an influential writer/creator and producer of humorous, character-driven US television series, including Maverick. What was NOT a TV series he created?

• Rockford Files
• The Fugitive
• Gunsmoke

2. What studio produced Maverick?

• Warner Brothers
• Universal
• Walt Disney

3. Who played the character of Bret Maverick?

• Rex Reason
• Rod Taylor
• James Garner

4. What brother did Jack Kelly play?

• Beane
• Ben
• Bart

5. Who played Beau Maverick?

• Sean Connery
• Roger Moore
• Pierce Brosnan

6. Recurring supporting roles included Dandy Jim Buckley (1957-1958; sophisticated con artist Buckley was a version of Maverick without the ethics). Who was the actor?

• Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.
• Ty Murray
• Alex Spano

7. In the episode “Duel At Sundown” who played the fist-fighting villain?

• Paul Brinegar
• Sheb Wooley
• Clint Eastwood

8. The episode “Gun-Shy” was a spoof of Gunsmoke.

• True or False?

9. In the epidsode “Pappy” who plays Pappy?

• Tex Ritter
• James Garner
• Jack Kelly

10. Who was NOT a writer on the series?

• Louis L’Amour
• Robert Louis Stevenson
• Edgar Buckhannon

Check Your Answers

• 1. Gunsmoke
• 2. Warner Brothers
• 3. James Garner
• 4. Bart
• 5. Roger Moore
• 6. Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.
• 7. Clint Eastwood
• 8. True
• 9. James Garner
• 10. Edgar Buckhannon