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All About Horses: A Quiz on Equine Knowledge

Test your knowledge about horses, their history, and their role in culture and society with this engaging quiz.

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1 ________: a female horse four years old and older.

2 What role did Tom Lawlor play in the movie Horse?

3 What kind of animal is a Horse?

4 What does the following picture show?  Turkish cavalry, 1917      A small herd of Przewalski's Horses   A horse's eye

5 The first archaeological evidence of horses used in warfare dates to between 4000 to 3000 BCE,[188] and the use of horses in warfare was widespread by the end of the ________.

6 Although most horses today are domesticated, there are still endangered populations of the Przewalski's Horse, the only remaining true ________, as well as more common populations of feral horses which live in the wild but are descended from domesticated ancestors.

7 What does the following picture show?  A small herd of Przewalski's Horses   Mesohippus, an ancestor of the modern horse   Size varies greatly among horse breeds, as with this full-sized horse and a miniature horse.   A mounted police officer in Poland

8 The horse adapted to survive in areas of wide-open terrain with sparse vegetation, surviving in an ________ where other large grazing animals, especially ruminants, could not.

9 The general rule for height between a horse and a ________ at maturity is 14.2 hands (58 inches, 147 cm).

10 What role did John Kavanagh play in the movie Horse?

💡 Interesting Facts

  • because the horse does not have a gall bladder, they can only have up to 20% fat as part of their equine nutrition.
  • an enterolith is a calculus found in the intestine of an animal, usually a horse or human.
  • an easy keeper (pictured) is a term used to decribe a horse, pony, or other equine that can live on relatively little food.
  • in Greek mythology, Arion (or Areion) was an extremely swift immortal horse that could talk.
  • most of the American Civil War events in Midway, Kentucky, including that which the Martyrs Monument in Midway commemorates, involved the stealing of horses.
  • the discovery of horse bones at the archaeological site of Hallur in south India refuted the theory that horses were introduced to this region as part of the Indo-Aryan migration.
  • the Saskatchewan town of Macklin erected a 32-foot-high statue of a horse's anklebone to commemorate the sport of Bunnock.
  • the horses in the Minneapolis Police Department mounted patrol commute to Minneapolis from a nearby ranch.
  • according to Hindu mythology, the deity Revanta (pictured) was born from the union of the sun-god Surya and his wife Saranya in the form of horse and mare.
  • a kid hack was a horse-drawn vehicle used for transporting children to school in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in the United States? This early form of school bus powered by both horses and mules, was usually loaded at the rear to avoid frightening the animals.
  • mounting blocks (example pictured), stone or wood blocks for mounting and dismounting a horse or cart, began to fall out of use around 1790.
  • colitis-X is a fatal form of acute colitis in horses, with severe diarrhea, abdominal pain, shock and dehydration, and near 100% mortality in less than 24 hours.
  • American thoroughbred race horse Little Current received the 1974 Eclipse Award for Outstanding 3-Year-Old Male Horse despite having his racing career ended mid-season by a bone chip in his leg.
  • Muhamed, a German horse, seemed to extract cube roots and tap out the answer with his hooves.
  • The Masked Rider mascot of Texas Tech University wears a black and red outfit and rides his black horse around to enthuse fans of the Texas Tech Red Raiders.
  • Ageratina adenophora, a plant native to Mexico which has invaded Australia, India and the United States, causes respiratory failure called "blowing disease" in horses.
  • Ylon Schwartz, main event finalist at the 2008 World Series of Poker, has gambled on backgammon, darts, horses, and his ability to toss lemons across a street onto the roof of a Burger King.
  • Frenchman Jean-Marie Le Bris accomplished the world's first powered flight in 1856, with a glider that was pulled behind a running horse.
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