1. What is Sam Peckinpah’s full name?
A) Samuel David Peckinpah
B) David Samuel Peckinpah
C) Samuel Edward Peckinpah
D) David Ernest Peckinpah
Answer: B) David Samuel Peckinpah
2. In which year was Sam Peckinpah born?
A) 1920
B) 1925
C) 1930
D) 1915
Answer: B) 1925
3. Which film earned Sam Peckinpah the nickname “Bloody Sam”?
A) Ride the High Country
B) Straw Dogs
C) The Wild Bunch
D) The Getaway
Answer: C) The Wild Bunch
4. In which city was Sam Peckinpah born?
A) Los Angeles, California
B) Fresno, California
C) San Francisco, California
D) San Diego, California
Answer: B) Fresno, California
5. Which branch of the military did Peckinpah serve in during World War II?
A) Army
B) Navy
C) Marines
D) Air Force
Answer: C) Marines
6. What was the title of Sam Peckinpah’s first feature film as a director?
A) The Deadly Companions
B) Ride the High Country
C) Major Dundee
D) The Wild Bunch
Answer: A) The Deadly Companions
7. Which television Western series did Peckinpah help create?
A) Bonanza
B) The Rifleman
C) Rawhide
D) Wagon Train
Answer: B) The Rifleman
8. Which Sam Peckinpah film is set during the Mexican Revolution?
A) Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid
B) The Ballad of Cable Hogue
C) Major Dundee
D) The Wild Bunch
Answer: D) The Wild Bunch
9. What is the name of Peckinpah’s 1970 Western that is notably less violent?
A) Junior Bonner
B) The Ballad of Cable Hogue
C) The Getaway
D) Straw Dogs
Answer: B) The Ballad of Cable Hogue
10. Which actor starred as the lead in Peckinpah’s The Getaway (1972)?
A) Steve McQueen
B) William Holden
C) Dustin Hoffman
D) James Coburn
Answer: A) Steve McQueen
11. Which Peckinpah film was nominated for two Academy Awards?
A) Straw Dogs
B) The Wild Bunch
C) Ride the High Country
D) Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid
Answer: B) The Wild Bunch
12. What was the profession of Peckinpah’s maternal grandfather, Denver S. Church?
A) Lawyer
B) Cattle rancher
C) Superior Court judge
D) All of the above
Answer: D) All of the above
13. Which film did Peckinpah direct that was based on a novel by Jim Thompson?
A) The Osterman Weekend
B) Convoy
C) The Getaway
D) Straw Dogs
Answer: C) The Getaway
14. In which science fiction film did Sam Peckinpah appear in a cameo role?
A) Close Encounters of the Third Kind
B) Invasion of the Body Snatchers
C) The Day the Earth Stood Still
D) Forbidden Planet
Answer: B) Invasion of the Body Snatchers
15. Which Peckinpah film features a character named Pike Bishop?
A) The Wild Bunch
B) Major Dundee
C) Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid
D) Ride the High Country
Answer: A) The Wild Bunch
16. What was the name of the documentary nominated for an Academy Award about Peckinpah’s work?
A) Sam Peckinpah: Man of Iron
B) The Wild Bunch: An Album in Montage
C) Peckinpah Suite
D) Passion & Poetry
Answer: B) The Wild Bunch: An Album in Montage
17. Which actor played Pat Garrett in Peckinpah’s Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid?
A) Kris Kristofferson
B) William Holden
C) James Coburn
D) Charlton Heston
Answer: C) James Coburn
18. What was the primary reason Peckinpah was fired from The Cincinnati Kid?
A) Budget overruns
B) Creative differences
C) Health issues
D) Actor disputes
Answer: B) Creative differences
19. Which Peckinpah film was shot on location in the Valley of Fire, Nevada?
A) The Ballad of Cable Hogue
B) The Wild Bunch
C) Major Dundee
D) Junior Bonner
Answer: A) The Ballad of Cable Hogue
20. What was Peckinpah’s nickname due to his combative personality and film style?
A) Wild Sam
B) Bloody Sam
C) Rebel Sam
D) Maverick Sam
Answer: B) Bloody Sam
21. Which film did Peckinpah direct that was based on a Robert Ludlum novel?
A) The Osterman Weekend
B) The Getaway
C) Convoy
D) Cross of Iron
Answer: A) The Osterman Weekend
22. Which Peckinpah film features a rodeo performer as the protagonist?
A) Junior Bonner
B) The Wild Bunch
C) The Ballad of Cable Hogue
D) Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid
Answer: A) Junior Bonner
23. Who was Peckinpah’s mentor and collaborator early in his career?
A) John Ford
B) Don Siegel
C) Howard Hawks
D) Sergio Leone
Answer: B) Don Siegel
24. Which Peckinpah film was set in Cornwall, England?
A) The Getaway
B) The Osterman Weekend
C) Straw Dogs
D) Cross of Iron
Answer: C) Straw Dogs
25. What was the name of the television show Peckinpah worked on as a writer?
A) Maverick
B) Gunsmoke
C) The Virginian
D) Have Gun – Will Travel
Answer: B) Gunsmoke
