Hoot Gibson
Choose an answer
from the three choices or True/False offered after each
question and then "Check Your Answers" at the end of the
quiz.
1. Born in Tekamah, NE, August 6, 1892, what is
Hoot’s birth name?
- Dick Stanley Gibson
- Edmund Richard Gibson
- William Stanley Gibson
2. How did he get his nickname, Hoot?
- Working for the Owl Drug Company.
- He liked to smoke Owl cigars.
- He rode a world champion bucking horse Owl.
3. During World War One, Hoot served in the Army.
What rank did he reach?
- Corporal
- Sergeant
- Lieutenant
4. Won the title “World's All Around Champion
Cowboy”. How old was he when he won the award.
5. From the 1920s through the 1940s, Hoot Gibson was
a major film attraction, ranking second only to Tom Mix
as a western film box office draw. Who was the top
ranking Western star?
- John Wayne
- Gene Autry
- Tom Mix
6. In 1921, he got his big break when he was cast as
Sandy in the movie, Action. Who directed the
film?
- Harry Carey
- King Vidor
- John Ford
7. In 1933, Hoot injured himself when he crashed his
plane while racing cowboy star Ken Maynard in the
National Air Races.
8. Hoot was off the screen for nearly six years
before returning. In 1941, he teamed up with Ken Maynard
at Monogram for The Trail Blazers. Who was the other
star in these trio Westerns?
- Rex Allen
- Bill Elliott
- Bob Steele
9. In 1959, John Ford brought Hoot back to the screen
in a supporting role with John Wayne. What was the
movie?
- The Horse Soldiers
- Ocean's Eleven
- The Marshall’s Daughter
10. In the 1950s the out-of-work cowboy star was
reduced to working as a Las Vegas casino greeter and
performing in carnivals in order to handle the enormous
debts that mounted after a series of cancer operations.
Check Your Answers
- Edmund Richard Gibson
- Working for the Owl Drug Company
- Sergeant
- 20
- Tom Mix
- John Ford
- True
- Bob Steele
- The Horse Soldiers
- True
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