Horse Trivia Quiz Questions with Answers

Trivia quiz questions with answers about horses.

Horse Trivia Quiz Questions with Answers

1. Dick Francis novels are based around what sport?
    
2. What did John Wayne's fellow actors and his horse wear while filming a new movie following his True Grit Oscar?
    
3. Which horse racing event is held on Long Island?
    
4. What sport was Terry Biddlecombe connected with?
    
5. What was Tom Mix's horses name?
    
6. What was the name of Dick Francis's first horse racing novel?
    
7. What horse race was held in 1985 in Aqueduct, New York?
    
 
8. What did the Ancient Greeks think a zebra was?
    
9. What is the normal body temperature for a horse?
    
10. What kind of a horse is a palomilla?
     
11. Where did the horse chestnut tree acquire its name?
     
12. In 1927 a race was held between a horse and a kangaroo in Sydney, Australia. Who won?
     
13. What horse did Gene Autry ride in his first starring role in the 1935 movie The Phantom Empire?
     
14. Who only spoke Sioux in the 1970 film, A Man Called Horse?
     
15. What woman sports figure appeared as a maid in John Ford's 1959 film classic The Horse Soldiers?
     
 
16. In the 1976 re-make of the 1933 film classic King Kong, what hairy covering was used to make a forty foot high, six and a half ton mechanical ape look life like?
     
17. To make the actors more comfortable during the filming of Helen of Troy, what was included inside the horse?
     
18. William Blount did not travel to Philadelphia on horseback for the 1787 Constitutional Conventions because of what medical condition?
     
19. Seconds after he shot Wild Bill Hickok, what did Jack McCall fall off of?
     
20. Which future president cheated on an eye exam to joining the cavalry reserves in the 1930s?
     
21. What unit of measure are horses measured by?
     
22. While still in office, which President received a ticket for speeding in Washington, DC?
     
 
23. In the Battle of San Juan, what was the name of the horse Teddy Roosevelt rode?
     
24. In the Lone Ranger TV series what was the name of Tonto's horse?
     
25. What was the name of Wild Bill's horse on the TV series, Wild Bill Hickok?
     
26. Col. Sherman Potter's horse in the M*A*S*H TV series was named what?
     
27. Who once observed: "This is America. You can't make a horse testify against himself?
     
28. Man O' War lost only one race in his career, on August 13, 1919. Who did "Big Red" lose to?
     

Answers to Trivia Quiz #193 - Horse Trivia

1. Horse racing.
2. Eye patches.
3. Belmont.
4. Horse racing.
5. Tony.
6. Dead Cert.
 
7. Breeders Cup.
8. A cross between a tiger and a horse.
9. 100.5 degrees F.
10. A milk white horse with a white mane and a white tail.
11. Chestnuts were once used as a medicine for horses.
12. The Kangaroo.
13. Tom Mix's horse Tony Jr., not Champion.
14. Dame Judith Anderson.
15. Tennis star Althea Gibson.
16. Argentine horse tails, two tons of them.
17. Air Conditioning.
18. Hemorrhoids.
 
19. His Horse.
20. Ronald Reagan.
21. Hand.
22. Ulysses S. Grant, in his horse and buggy.
23. Texas.
24. Scout.
25. Buckshot.
26. Sophie.
27. Mr. Ed.
28. To a horse named Upset.