High in the Saddle Quiz | Famous Animals

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1. Hello there! My name's Trigger, "the Smartest Horse in the Movies," or so many said. I'm sure most of you know Roy Rogers rode high in the saddle atop me, but do you know the name of Rogers' wife's horse, the one ridden by Dale Evans?

Answer: Buttermilk

Buttermilk lived from 1941-1972. He was a Quarter Horse with buckskin coloring, which meant he was mostly a light golden tan with black hair at certain points. Buttermilk appeared in a few films as well as "The Roy Rogers Show" as Dale Evans' mount. In Branson, Missouri, one can see Buttermilk's hide preserved on a plastic replica exhibited at the Roy Rogers and Dale Evans Museum.

2. Some of you may remember me from Walt Disney's "Sleeping Beauty". Prince Phillip rode high in the saddle upon me as he rode to face the evil of Maleficent. Do you remember my name, one that's the same as a mighty Old Testament judge?

Answer: Samson

This large white horse with black mane and tail never speaks (unlike many Disney animal characters); however, he certainly has a personality. He's smart enough to find his way home, and he seems somewhat aggravated when Phillip wants to deviate off course to investigate Aurora's singing. Phillip is able to entice him with the promise of carrots.

However, when Samson causes Phillip to fall into a pool of water, Phillip indignantly proclaims: "No carrots!" Later, Samson is invaluable to Phillip in his escape from Maleficent's castle and in his rescue of Aurora.

3. Michael Martin Murphey sang about me. The singer had a lover who died trying to find me after I became lost in a blizzard. Of course, I died too. However, his lover and I are going to return as ghosts one day to carry him with us; then the two together will be riding high in my saddle. What's my name?

Answer: Wildfire

Released in February of 1975, "Wildfire" was one of Michael Martin Murphey's greatest hits. It spent two weeks at number three on Billboard's Hot 100. While the writing credits went to both Murphey and a songwriting partner Larry Cansler, the song's origin arose from a dream that Murphey had.

He claimed he dreamed the entire song, woke up in the night, made Cansler wake up as well, and then cranked out the song in a couple of hours with Cansler's help. Murphey claimed he was uncertain about the meaning of the song as well as that of the dream.

4. Ichabod Crane sat high in my saddle for quite some time in Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"--until one night when he mysteriously disappeared. Was he truly a victim of The Headless Horseman, or was he a victim of that jealous Abraham "Brom Bones" Van Brunt instead? Anyway, what's my name (it's the same as an infamous plot to assassinate King James I)?

Answer: Gunpowder

Washington Irving published "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" in 1820 as part of a collection of short stories called "The Sketch Book". The story is set in the 1790's in an old Dutch settlement of New York, and the plot involves the competition of two men for the heart of one Katrina Van Tassel and the mysterious disappearance of one of those two men. Irving's story is actually based on Karl Musaus's retelling of an old German folktale.

5. "Hi-Yo, Silver!" That's what the Lone Ranger used to exclaim as he and his trusted steed rode off to face whatever danger lay in wait for them. The Lone Ranger's sidekick Tonto rode high in the saddle on MY back. Although Tonto initially rode a Paint Horse called "Big Fellow", I'm the Pinto that replaced him. What's my name?

Answer: Scout

"The Lone Ranger" was a 1930's radio broadcast that eventually became a film serial and a television program. Of course, there have been several films, animated programs, comics, and other publications. Tonto was the Lone Ranger's American Indian sidekick, and though he was presented as equally as heroic and capable as the Lone Ranger, his character was later criticized by others.

Many American Indians were upset with the stereotype created by Tonto's speaking pidgin English. Furthermore, "tonto" means "fool" in Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian speaking countries.

6. If you ever watched any of the animated "Rocky and Bullwinkle Show", perhaps you may remember one of the supporting features called "Dudley Do-Right of the Mounties". I carried Dudley himself high in the saddle upon my back. Unfortunately, his love interest Nell Fenwick was more interested in me than Dudley. Do you recall my ridiculous name?

Answer: Horse

Dudley Do-Right's horse was a horse called "Horse", of course. Frequently, Dudley saves Nell Fenwick from the dastardly Snidely Whiplash and desperately tries to reveal his affection to Nell, who is oblivious to Dudley's advances because she is preoccupied with Horse. Of course, Horse seems smitten with Nell as well, or at least he's flattered by her attention.

7. Hasbro toy manufacturer launched us onto the children's market in 1983. Little girls could imagine they rode high in the saddle on our backs. Each of us had a different color, a flowing mane and tail, and a sweet-sounding name like Bon Bon, Bright Eyes, Clover, Daybreak, Starlight, Sweetheart, and Tangerine Twinkle. Do you remember the name for all of us collectively?

Answer: My Little Pony

My Little Pony was such a successful toy franchise that it led to movies, TV programs, and video games. The 1986 film--"My Little Pony: The Movie"--made around $6 million; that's not too bad for a film inspired by a toy; usually a film inspires the manufacturing of a line of toys.

In case anyone was wondering, in most cases the name of each individual horse was based on whatever image appeared on the horse's haunch or haunches.

8. I had my own TV show from 1959-1962. Although I was but an animated white horse, villains still took me seriously, I thought. No one rode high in the saddle on me, but I did have a trusted sidekick, the burro Baba Looey. He and I were part of a Hanna-Barbera Production. Can you recall my name?

Answer: Quick Draw McGraw

When the "Quick Draw McGraw Show" was on the air, it was thirty-minute animated program with three short segments. One show was dedicated to McGraw and Looey while the other two segments showcased the adventures of Daddy Doggie and Augey Doggie and the adventures of the cat and mouse detective team Super Snooper and Blabber Mouse. Daws Butler did the voices of all of these characters except Daddy Doggie, who was voiced by Doug Young impersonating Jimmy Durante.

The show was syndicated worldwide; in Italy it was called "Ernesto Sparalesto", in The Netherlands it was "Texas Jim", and in France it was "Grangallo Tirevite".

9. I was called Beau in the 1969 film "True Grit", and Rooster Cogburn himself rode high in the saddle atop me until I was shot from under him by that no-good Ned Pepper. Who of you, however, can recall the name of Mattie's horse, the one Cogburn and Mattie rode to lethal exhaustion?

Answer: Little Blackie

Little Blackie is the horse Mattie purchases after haggling with a horse trader. He is ridden to death at the end of the movie when Rooster Cogburn is trying to race Mattie back to a doctor after she has been bitten by a rattlesnake. John Wayne fell in love with the horse he rode in the final scene of the film, his new horse that jumped with Wayne over a fence and off into a valley.

This horse, Old Dollor, would be used by Wayne in several later films, including his final film "The Shootist"; in fact, Wayne would not participate in the film unless Old Dollor was included. Wayne refused to allow anyone to ride Old Dollor, and the only other person ever to do so was Robert Wagner in the American TV series "Hart to Hart", this occurring after Wayne's death, of course.

10. I am a horse of Rohan, a kingdom you may recognize from Tolkein's "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy. I bore Gandalf upon my back, but not high in the saddle, for I could not abide neither saddle nor bridle. Do you remember my name?

Answer: Shadowfax

Shadowfax was the chief stallion of the Mearas, a breed of silver and grey horses that could understand the language of Men. He had the distinction of being able to run faster than any other horse known in Middle-earth, and he refused to bear anyone else upon him but Gandalf. In Old Norse, "Shadowfax" meant "shadow mane".

Source: Author alaspooryoric

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