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The Year of the Horse Trivia Quiz

This quiz looks at historical episodes that took place during Chinese "Years of the Horse" in the 20th Century. The Chinese year does not exactly equate to the Western January to December year.

A multiple-choice quiz by darksplash. Estimated time: 3 mins.

Author
darksplash

Time
3 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
329,576

Updated
Dec 03 21

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10

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8 / 10

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Question 1 of 10

1. In The Year of the Horse 25th January 1906 to 12th February 1907 a mighty volcano erupted and devastated a European city. Which was it? Hint

Paris

Oslo

Edinburgh

Naples

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Question 2 of 10

2. In The Year of the Horse 11th February 1918 to 31st January 1919, five lives were lost when the RMS Carpathia was sunk by a German U-boat. A few years earlier, the Carpathia had helped rescue survivors from a sinking ship. Which one? Hint

Queen Elizabeth 2

Mary Celeste

Titanic

Flying Dutchman

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Question 3 of 10

3. In The Year of the Horse 30th January 1930 to 16th February 1931, an intrepid aviatrix became the first woman to fly solo from England to Australia. What was her name? Hint

Erica Jung

Gladys Sequoia

Jacqueline "Jackie" Cochran

Amy Johnson

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Question 4 of 10

4. In The Year of the Horse 15th February 1942 to 4th February 1943, one of Hollywood's greatest movies had its premiere in New York City. In the middle of a war it had a war setting, but was a tale of romance rather than battlefield action. Which of these was it? Hint

The First of the Few

Went The Day Well?

Reunion in France

Casablanca

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Question 5 of 10

5. In The Year of the Horse 3rd February 1954 to 16th February 1955, the first operational rail subway in Canada opened. In which of these cities did it happen? Hint

Vancouver

Montreal

Toronto

Calgary

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Question 6 of 10

6. In The Year of the Horse 21st January 1966 to 8th February 1967, one of The Beatles provoked a storm of controversy when he proclaimed "We're more popular than Jesus now". Who said it? Hint

John Lennon

George Harrison

Ringo Starr

Paul McCartney

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Question 7 of 10

7. In The Year of the Horse 7th February 1978 to 27th January 1979, the USA introduced a dollar in honour of one of the country's most famous female civil rights campaigners of the 19th century. Who was she? Hint

Betsy Ross

Susan B Anthony

Annie Oakley

Bessie Coleman

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Question 8 of 10

8. In The Year of the Horse 27th January 1990 to 14th February 1991, the 'Three Tenors' sang together in concert for the first time. What were their names? Hint

Sheryl Crow, Iris DeMent and Alanis Morissette

Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan and Elvis Costello

Pl�cido Domingo, Jos� Carreras and Luciano Pavarotti

Donnie Ray Albert, Henri-Bernard Dabadie and Edmund Hockridge

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Question 9 of 10

9. In The Year of the Horse 12th February 2002 to 31st January 2003, the 74th Academy Awards, were hosted by Whoopi Goldberg in Hollywood, California on March 24th 2002. Which movie telling the story of a gifted scientist and his battle with paranoid schizophrenia won the Best Picture Oscar? Hint

A Beautiful Mind

Gosford Park

Signs

Shrek

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Question 10 of 10

10. In The Year of the Horse 15th February 1942 to 4th February 1943, what, according to a movie, did a horse try to do? Hint

Jump across the Grand Canyon

Go over Niagara Falls in a (very large) barrel

Pull a 10-carriage train

Join the Army

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. In The Year of the Horse 25th January 1906 to 12th February 1907 a mighty volcano erupted and devastated a European city. Which was it?

Answer: Naples

More than 100 people died when Mount Vesuvius erupted in April 1906. The volcano has erupted numerous times in recorded history, including eight in the 19th century and three in the 20th.

Answer: Titanic

The "Carpathia" was sunk by U55 off the cost of Ireland on July 17th 1918. Five of her crew died. In 1912, "Carpathia" steamed at high speed after receiving the "Titanic's" distress signals. Arriving at 4am, she took on 708 survivors.

3. In The Year of the Horse 30th January 1930 to 16th February 1931, an intrepid aviatrix became the first woman to fly solo from England to Australia. What was her name?

Answer: Amy Johnson

Amy Johnson took off from England on May 5th 1930. Her journey ended at Darwin Australia on May 24th after a flight of 11,000 miles. Johnson set a number of other flight records before joining Britain's Air Transport Auxiliary during World War II. She died when her Airspeed Oxford aircraft crashed into the River Thames on January 5th 1941. Her body was not recovered.

Answer: Casablanca

Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman starred in a tale of romance set in North Africa at the height of the Second World War. Bogart and Bergman were former lovers who met again when she was on the run from the Nazis with her Resistance group husband. "Casablanca" was a surprise hit: no one expected much of it, yet it came to be regarded as a classic.

5. In The Year of the Horse 3rd February 1954 to 16th February 1955, the first operational rail subway in Canada opened. In which of these cities did it happen?

Answer: Toronto

When the route opened it had just 12 stations and was just 4.6 miles long. It expanded significantly in succeeding years.

6. In The Year of the Horse 21st January 1966 to 8th February 1967, one of The Beatles provoked a storm of controversy when he proclaimed "We're more popular than Jesus now". Who said it?

Answer: John Lennon

In an interview published in "The London Evening Standard", John Lennon said, "We're more popular than Jesus now.". The comment sparked a huge controversy, particularly in the USA.

Answer: Susan B Anthony

Susan Brownell Anthony was born on February 15th, 1820 in Adams, Massachusetts and died on March 13th, 1906 in Rochester, New York. Born into a Quaker family, Anthony was very much a free-thinker and questioned many of the norms of the time. She was prominent in the temperance and anti-slavery movements and published a weekly journal called "The Revolution".

Her campaigning for equal rights for women laid the foundation for the 19th Amendment of the US Constitution, which gave women the right to vote.

8. In The Year of the Horse 27th January 1990 to 14th February 1991, the 'Three Tenors' sang together in concert for the first time. What were their names?

Answer: Pl�cido Domingo, Jos� Carreras and Luciano Pavarotti

The Three Tenors first sang together on July 7th 1990, the night before the opening of the FIFA World Cup in Rome. Domingo and Carreras were from Spain and Pavarotti from Italy. They went on to sell millions of records and appear in concerts worldwide. The three other opera singers mentioned were baritones.

Answer: A Beautiful Mind

Russell Crowe led the cast in the true story of John Nash, a brilliant student of mathematics at Princeton University and scientist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.. It showed Nash's descent into paranoid schizophrenia, despite the brilliance of his work and innovations.

10. In The Year of the Horse 15th February 1942 to 4th February 1943, what, according to a movie, did a horse try to do?

Answer: Join the Army

In 1942, Warner Bros., released "The Draft Horse" an animated story of a farm horse that tried to join the US Army after reading (!) a poster that the Army needed horses. At the recruiting station it was rejected, but did serve the war effort by knitting sweaters for soldiers overseas.
(What do you mean that's too silly an idea to be made into a movie? Haven't you ever seen the "Die Hard" series?).

Source: Author darksplash

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