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1. What is a horse's father called?
Answer: sire
Interesting Information:Many times breeders will want to know who 'sired' a horse, meaning who was the father of the horse. A lot of the father's characteristics will be passed down to the foal.
Difficulty: Easy.
From Quiz: All About Horses
Some incorrect choices:
gelding, mare, colt
2. What horse was developed in the American West as a cow horse, and is now a popular horse?
Answer: Quarter Horse
Interesting Information:All of the horses given in the answer choices are popular today.
The Appaloosa, Quarter Horse, and Morgan were all developed in America.
The Appaloosa and the Quarter Horse both were developed in the American West.
But only the Quarter Horse was developed as a cow horse. They are used today in a variety of disciplines, such as Western Pleasure, Jumping, and Barrel Racing.
Difficulty: Average.
From Quiz: Horse Breeds
Some incorrect choices:
Appaloosa, Morgan, Thoroughbred
3. Emmie has joined her local Pony Club and is excited about going there for the first time. What should she NOT do the night before her first rally (meet)?
Answer: Stay up late
Interesting Information:Emmie will have a very long and exhausting day at Pony Club, so it's important for her to be well rested. She also needs to make sure that her saddle and bridle are cleaned and ready for inspection.
Difficulty: Very Easy.
From Quiz: Emmie's First Pony Club Rally
Some incorrect choices:
Clean her saddle, Clean her bridle, Go to bed early
4. What is an adult female horse called?
Answer: mare
Interesting Information:Mares are older than four and fillies are younger than four. A colt is a young male horse. A foal is a baby horse.
Difficulty: Easy.
From Quiz: Simple Horse Knowledge for Kids
Some incorrect choices:
filly, colt, foal
5. American super-pony, Theodore O'Connor, had what three breeds in his lineage?
Answer: Thoroughbred, Arabian, Shetland
Interesting Information:Theodore "Teddy" O'Connor, was ridden by Karen O'Connor, 2008 Olympian, was 3/4 Thoroughbred, 1/8 Arabian, and 1/8 Shetland. Teddy received third in the Rolex Kentucky 3-Day Event in 2008. He had to be euthanized May 28, 2008 after a freak accident at Karen O'Conner's barn.
Difficulty: Hard.
From Quiz: Horse Breeds
Some incorrect choices:
Thoroughbred, Barb, Welsh, Arabian, Quarter Horse, Pony of the Americas, Shetland, Welsh, Connemara
6. When she was at Pony Club, Emmie had trouble finding her friend Violet because she did not know how to describe Violet's pony's colouring. Now she knows that Violet's pony is bay. What does Violet's pony look like?
Answer: He has a reddish-brown coat with a black mane and tail.
Interesting Information:Bay is a common colouring for horses and ponies of many breeds. Bay horses are often black around their lower legs, but sometimes they have white markings there instead.
Difficulty: Hard.
From Quiz: Emmie's Pony and Friends
Some incorrect choices:
He has a golden coat with a white mane and tail., He has a dark brown coat with a matching mane and tail., He has patches of different colours all over his coat.
7. What is the major difference between stallions and geldings?
Answer: geldings are neutered
Interesting Information:Stallions can breed, but geldings can't. Geldings are better-behaved, which makes them easier to work with.
Difficulty: Average.
From Quiz: Simple Horse Knowledge for Kids
Some incorrect choices:
geldings are smaller, stallions are smaller, stallions are neutered
8. Where would you find withers on a horse?
Answer: between the shoulders
Interesting Information:The withers are just below the bottom of the horse's mane and are located in between the horse's shoulders. It is considered the 'tallest point' on a horse and is the starting point when measuring a horse.
Difficulty: Hard.
From Quiz: All About Horses
Some incorrect choices:
just above the hooves , on the stomach, on the face
9. Violet's pony, Rocket, has a fairly wide white marking on his face that begins at his forehead and runs down the front of his face to his nose. What marking is this?
Answer: Blaze
Interesting Information:Blaze is the name for a band of white that runs down the front of a horse's face, but if the marking is quite narrow then it would be called a stripe, strip or race. A snip is a patch of white on the horse's muzzle between the nostrils. A star is a patch of white on the horse's forehead.
Difficulty: Easy.
From Quiz: Emmie's Pony and Friends
Some incorrect choices:
Snip, Star, There is no name for this marking
10. Are horses even or odd toed?
Answer: odd
Interesting Information:They are odd-toed ungulates. A horse's foot is called a hoof. Horse's hooves are made out of the same material as our fingernails.
Difficulty: Hard.
From Quiz: Simple Horse Knowledge for Kids
Some incorrect choices:
even, neither, they can be both
11. What unit of measurement is used to measure the height of a horse?
Answer: hands
Interesting Information:A horse is measured from the withers (between the shoulder blades) to the ground.
It used to just be equal to 'the size of a grown man's hand' but nowadays, one 'hand' is equal to 4 inches.
Difficulty: Very Easy.
From Quiz: All About Horses
Some incorrect choices:
feet, centimeters, yards
12. In what state(s) did the tribes who developed the Appaloosa horse live?
Answer: Washington, Oregon
Interesting Information:The Nez Perce's range stretched from the eastern parts of Washington and Oregon. Their first horses were obtained from the Shoshone people around 1730.
Difficulty: Hard.
From Quiz: Horse Breeds
Some incorrect choices:
Idaho, Montana, Washington, Oregon
13. Violet's brother, Henry, tells Emmie that the name for the colour of his pony's coat is the same as the name of something that grows on trees. What do you think it is?
Answer: Chestnut
Interesting Information:Chestnut horses have a reddish-brown coat and a matching mane and tail. Chestnut is quite a common colour but it is also popular because it can be very attractive and will often shine beautifully when the horse is well-groomed.
Difficulty: Easy.
From Quiz: Emmie's Pony and Friends
Some incorrect choices:
Acorn, Pine cone, Cherry
14. Where does the bit go?
Answer: in the horse's mouth
Interesting Information:A bit is located at the end of a bridle. Bridles go on a horse's head. You use it to control the horse.
Difficulty: Very Easy.
From Quiz: Simple Horse Knowledge for Kids
Some incorrect choices:
in the horse's stall, in the grass outside the barn, none of these
15. What is the only breed of draft horse that originated in the United States?
Answer: American Cream Draft
Interesting Information:In 1911, a cream-colored mare named 'Old Granny' was purchased. She was the foundation mare for the breed, since most of her foals carried her coat coloring. Only about 300 of this breed exist today, with the American Livestock Breeds Conservancy listing them as 'critical.'
Difficulty: Hard.
From Quiz: Horse Breeds
Some incorrect choices:
Clydesdale, Shire, Percheron
16. Emmie has been told she will ride with the blue group and the timetable says the blue group will have a dressage lesson first. What does this mean they will practise?
Answer: Riding different arena shapes at the walk, trot and canter
Interesting Information:Emmie is a novice rider so her dressage class will help her improve her ability to control her pony and help teach her how to ride basic arena shapes like circles and changes of rein (changes of direction).
Difficulty: Easy.
From Quiz: Emmie's First Pony Club Rally
Some incorrect choices:
Maintaining balance and control over small jumps, Racing over jumps, Riding without a saddle
17. What would you be most likely to keep in a tack room?
Answer: saddles, bridles, and other horse supplies
Interesting Information:Saddles go on a horse's back to be ridden on. Grain and food would go in a feed room. Saddles and bridles are normally made of leather.
Difficulty: Average.
From Quiz: Simple Horse Knowledge for Kids
Some incorrect choices:
horses, grain, hay, and other food, all of these
18. Which exotic horse breed is known for its distinctive curved eartips?
Answer: Marwari
Interesting Information:Mawaris were first bred in India as royal war horses. They stand 14-17 hands high, and come in all colors, including pinto and cremello.
Difficulty: Hard.
From Quiz: Horse Breeds
Some incorrect choices:
Arabian, Andalusian, Knabstrup
19. Midnight's legs are white from where the hair begins above the hoof until almost half-way to his knee joint. What is one word that would describe this marking?
Answer: Sock
Interesting Information:Many horses have white markings on their lower legs, and these markings can have different names depending upon how far up the horse's leg they go. For example, stockings go up higher than socks.
Difficulty: Easy.
From Quiz: Emmie's Pony and Friends
Some incorrect choices:
Flank, Stripe, Patch
20. The blue group has a theory class next, and so their instructor tells them to 'pack up' their horses. It's a cold day, so what should Emmie do?
Answer: Tie her pony to his float (trailer), put his rug on and give him something to eat
Interesting Information:Emmie's instructor just wants the blue group to make their ponies comfortable while they have a break. It is Emmie's job to do this, not her instructor's, and Emmie's pony certainly shouldn't have any chicken soup!
Difficulty: Easy.
From Quiz: Emmie's First Pony Club Rally
Some incorrect choices:
Load her pony onto the float (trailer) and go home, Ask her instructor to do it for her, Buy some chicken soup to help keep her pony warm
21. Emmie has ridden a pony and absolutely loves it, but what does she need to do before she agrees to buy it?
Answer: get a vet to examine the pony
Interesting Information:It is very important for Emmie to find a vet to check out the pony before she buys it. Vets can detect all kinds of problems that may not be visible now, but which could cause big problems for Emmie and her pony in the future.
Difficulty: Very Easy.
From Quiz: Emmie's First Pony
Some incorrect choices:
ask the current owners what the pony's favourite food is, see if the pony follows her when she tries to leave, test to see if it is frightened of her dog
22. The rear 'rump' section of a horse is called a 'croup' and it connects to the horse's tail. What do you call the place where the tail connects to the croup?
Answer: dock
Interesting Information:The dock is the the 'living' part of the tail because it has vertebrae, ligaments, and muscles; it is not just hair. The fetlock is the horse's ankle, the forelock is a part of the mane that falls between the horse's ears on their face, and the crest is where the mane grows on a horse's neck.
Difficulty: Hard.
From Quiz: All About Horses
Some incorrect choices:
fetlock, forelock, crest
23. Penny's brother, Jonty, owns a pony that has a reddish-brown coat with flecks of white all over it. He tells Emmie that this colouring is called red roan, but it has another name that includes a type of fruit. What is it?
Answer: Strawberry roan
Interesting Information:Some strawberry roans have so many white hairs flecked through their coats that they have an almost pinkish appearance, while others look more like chestnuts with a few white hairs.
Difficulty: Easy.
From Quiz: Emmie's Pony and Friends
Some incorrect choices:
Apple roan, Pear roan, Banana roan
24. During lunch, Emmie finds Violet, one of her friends, who has been riding in a different group. Violet has a pony that has a BLACK mane and tail but his body is a reddish-brown colour. What is the correct name for this colouring?
Answer: Bay
Interesting Information:Chestnut horses have a reddish-brown colouring, but they do not have black manes and tails. Piebald horses have black and white patches. Palomino horses have a golden coat with a white mane and tail.
Difficulty: Hard.
From Quiz: Emmie's First Pony Club Rally
Some incorrect choices:
Piebald, Palomino, Chestnut
25. What is it called when a horse rises up and stands on its hind legs?
Answer: Rearing
Interesting Information:Some horses are trained to do this for competitions, performances, or circuses. However, if a horse is not trained to do this, rearing is considered very dangerous and disobedient. If you are riding a horse that does this, hold on very tight and be very careful.
Difficulty: Average.
From Quiz: All About Horses
Some incorrect choices:
Bucking, Dressage, Longeing
26. What color is illegal for Arabian horses?
Answer: Palomino
Interesting Information:Unless crossbred, Arabian lines do not contain the cream gene to make a palomino. They also cannot come in dun, or pinto. However, small amounts of sabino coloring is allowed.
Difficulty: Hard.
From Quiz: Horse Breeds
Some incorrect choices:
Bay, Chestnut, Gray
27. Jonty tells Emmie he saw a pony that was white with brown spots all over its body. Emmie thinks this sounds strange, but could Jonty be telling the truth?
Answer: Yes, it was probably a Leopard Appaloosa.
Interesting Information:The Appaloosa is a breed of horse and can have a range of different coat markings. Leopard Appaloosas have a base coat colour with spots of another colour on it and could easily fit the description Jonty provided.
Difficulty: Average.
From Quiz: Emmie's Pony and Friends
Some incorrect choices:
Yes, it was probably a Polka Palomino., No, there aren't any horses with spots., No, horses only ever have pink and purple spots.
28. What part of a horse can you examine to determine the horse's age?
Answer: teeth
Interesting Information:A horse's teeth can be shaped in up to five different shapes. Like humans, horses have new teeth come in, or "erupt," as they get older. It is studying these eruptions that can determine a horse's age.
Difficulty: Easy.
From Quiz: All About Horses
Some incorrect choices:
hooves, mane, tail
29. What breed of horse, though very versatile, is known for the high-stepping gait, the rack?
Answer: American Saddlebred
Interesting Information:The American Saddlebred is actually not completely gaited. The majority of the horses are not born with the gait, which means they aren't only in Saddleseat classes. Saddlebreds are in Jumping, Cross-Country, Dressage, and even Western events!
Difficulty: Hard.
From Quiz: Horse Breeds
Some incorrect choices:
Paso Fino, Tennesee Walking Horse, Missouri Foxtrotter
30. What is a farrier?
Answer: a person who takes care of a horse's hooves
Interesting Information:Farriers help maintain a horse's hooves by trimming them and keeping them healthy. They also shoe horses.
Difficulty: Very Easy.
From Quiz: Simple Horse Knowledge for Kids
Some incorrect choices:
a type of horse food, a type of barn, a breed of horse
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