"True Grit": Rooster Cogburn, John Wayne Quiz

Answer: Ma Parmelee

Lucky Ned has captured Mattie. With him are Tom Chaney, Mexican Bob, and the Parmelee brothers, Harold and Farrell. Harold never speaks, but makes animal sounds. Mattie asks Ned what the matter with Harold is. Ned replies that all the Parmelee family is "tetched". While he first says that Harold is the worst, meaning the most "tetched", he corrects himself and says that their ma is the worst. Ma is never seen in the movie and no more is said about her, except for the reference below, leaving Ned's "diagnosis" the only information as the to the mental health of the matriarch of the Parmelees.

When Ned, Bob and the Parmelees ride off, leaving Mattie with Tom Chaney - Chaney having lost his horse - Ned promises to send back a horse for Chaney. Ned says he'll see Chaney that night at "ma's". The ma he is referring to is the Parmelees' mom.

There is no mention of any "Old Man Parmelee" in the movie.

Answer: Bill Waters

Mattie wants to have Tom Chaney, who killed her father, brought to justice, and asks the Fort Smith sheriff who the best Marshall is, since the sheriff has no jurisdiction in the Indian Nation. He mentions three, telling her "the meanest" is Rooster Cogburn.
The sheriff begins to mention Marshalls and the first one he names is Bill Waters, the best tracker. Next he mentions L. T. Quinn, and finally Rooster. When the sheriff describes Rooster as not only the meanest but, "double tough, fear don't enter into his thinking", she asks "Where can I find this Rooster?" Neither Bill Waters nor L.T. Quinn appear in the movie and neither is mentioned again.
L. T. Quinn is a Marshall, but he is "the straightest."
LaBoeuf is, of course, the Texas Ranger who goes with Rooster and Mattie.
R. Ryan is the undertaker, seen when Mattie and Yarnell go to see her father's body. Ryan has a sign on the door that he has gone to the hanging, and he has signed it, "R. Ryan". Ryan is played by the actor Hank Worden, who appeared in several John Wayne movies, including the character Mose Harper in the John Ford directed classic, "The Searchers".

Answer: Vision

The patrons of the boarding house are eating. Mattie admits the food is alright, but thinks 25 cents is a lot for "a little flour and grease" - referring to the dumplings of the chicken and dumplings being offered. LaBoeuf enters late and one patron warns LaBoeuf, as he sits down at the long dinner table, that the stew will hurt his eyes.
When LaBoeuf asks how so, the patron replies, "It'll hurt your eyes looking for the chicken."

Answer: Sperling

After Rooster shoots Quincy, following Quincy's stabbing Moon, Mattie tells Rooster about the gold coin they find on Emmitt Quincy's body. "Grandpa Sperling gave Poppa two gold coins when he married Momma." Apparently they were minted in California. The other is on Tom Chaney's body in the snake pit, but Rooster does not retrieve it when he rescues Mattie from there.
Ross is Mattie's and her dad's name.
Nola is Rooster's wife's first name, the grass widow who goes back to her first husband who is cleking in a hardware store in Paduca.
LaBoeuf fought in the War Between the States with General Kirby Smith, which he mentions when being critical of Capt. Quantrill under whom Rooster served.

Answer: Buy him a cigar

When they are camped, LaBoeuf is telling Mattie and Rooster that he has had to drink water from a hoofprint and was happy for it. Rooster is not impressed. "If I ever meet one of you Texas waddies who hasn't drunk water from a hoofprint, I think I'll shake his hand and buy him a Daniel Webster cigar."

Answer: Illinois

Rooster is talking at night with Mattie as they await Lucky Ned Pepper and his gang's arrival at the dugout. He is in a rather expansive mood and having answered Mattie's question as to how he lost his eye, ("the war") he then answers her question as to what he did after the war. He describes how he went to Cairo, Illinois, married a grass widow and opened an "eating and drinking place" with the proceeds of his robbery. He is proud that the place had a billiard table.
Rooster drove freight in Colorado. He worked for a fellow who was always down with something.
He held up a high interest bank in New Mexico, following which the townsfolk chased him. After the posse thinned out a bit he rode at them firing two Navy Sixers and they scattered and ran for home.
LaBoeuf is from Texas.

Answer: Masons

Frank Ross was a Mason.
When Mattie determines she must see that Tom Chaney is brought to justice, she instructs Yarnell, the hired hand who has accompanied her to Fort Smith, to take her father's body back on the train to the Ross home (near Dardenelle, in Yell County), and see to it he is placed in a better coffin and buried with his Mason's apron.
She also instructs Yarnell to tell Momma not to sign anything until she, Mattie, gets back.

Answer: Austin

Moon, having been stabbed by his partner Emmitt Quincy, lies dying inside the dugout. Mattie asks if they should tell his brother the circumstances of his death, his being an outlaw. Moon says that his brother already knows. He asks that Rooster send his traps to his brother, George Garrett, a Methodist circuit rider. Later, Rooster claims not to recall where the brother is, hoping to keep the value of Moon's belongings for himself. "Was it Houston or Austin?" Mattie clearly reminds him.
Fort Smith is where Rooster is located.
McAllister is a stop enroute to finding Lucky Ned Pepper in the region of the Winding Stair Mountains.
Waco is where LaBoeuf hopes to return with Tom Chaney as his prisoner.

Answer: Cumberland Presbyterian

While eating at the trading post, Mattie engages the lady there in conversation. She asks her if she is Southern or Cumberland Presbyterian. The lady at the trading post is Southern Prebyterian. Mattie is Cumberland and "proud of it".
LaBoeuf is Episcopal Church..."Took you to be some sort of kneeler" Mattie says.

Answer: Indigestion

Mattie goes to Judge Parker's court where she has been told Rooster will be. She wants to speak with him about going after Tom Chaney, after already having been ignored when he brought in prisoners and closed the door in her face.
Judge Parker asks the baliff for some peppermint for indigestion. The baliff hands him a small bag and Judge Parker takes out a couple of mints. He chews on the mints as Rooster returns to the witness stand.