Nature & Animals Equine Quiz!

[650lb Sumo]

(1) What are the four usual gaits of horses, in order of increasing speed? (Five Marks - one for the order)
(2) What are the seven extant species of equines? (Seven Marks)
(3) What are chestnuts, in an equine context?
(4) What is the part of tack that goes in a horse's mouth called?
(5) What are these?

Spoiler

(6) What is the biggest horse race in the world?
(7) In what units are horses' heights measured?
(8) What was Alexander the Great's horse called?
(9) What is the biggest horse breed?
(10) What is the highest speed a horse is recorded to have run at? (Two marks for the number to the nearest 1mph, one for within 5mph)

Spoiler: Answers

(1) Walk, trot, canter, gallop
(2) African Wild Ass
Horse
Kiang
Onager
Grévy's Zebra
Mountain Zebra
Plains Zebra
(3) Callosities on the insides of their forelegs, and sometimes hindlegs. They serve no apparent purpose and it is not known why they are there.
(4) The bit
(5) Stirrups

(6) The Grand National - held on the Saturday (last day) of the spring meeting at Aintree, near Liverpool.
(7) In hands, one hand being four inches
(8) Bucephalus
(9) Shire. The biggest horse ever, Sampson, a Shire, is said to have stood 21.2hh and weighed 3,360lb.
(10) 44mph

The pass mark is 11/21. How did you do?

 

[mb23100]

I got 5 and 7 correct. 2 more than i thought I was going to get.

 

[Flower2dPeople]

I'm just here to post an Umamusume gif.

 

[Gutter Chris]

I didn't know 2 , 3 and 8

 

[Brofessor]

Failed miserably. Again.

 

[MichiganMMA1978]

I got an 8…. And I grew up around horses lol

 

[Get To Da Choppa]

(1) What are the four usual gaits of horses, in order of increasing speed? (Five Marks - one for the order)
(2) What are the seven extant species of equines? (Seven Marks)
(3) What are chestnuts, in an equine context?
(4) What is the part of tack that goes in a horse's mouth called?
(5) What are these?

Spoiler

(6) What is the biggest horse race in the world?
(7) In what units are horses' heights measured?
(8) What was Alexander the Great's horse called?
(9) What is the biggest horse breed?
(10) What is the highest speed a horse is recorded to have run at? (Two marks for the number to the nearest 1mph, one for within 5mph)

Spoiler: Answers

(1) Walk, trot, canter, gallop
(2) African Wild Ass
Horse
Kiang
Onager
Grévy's Zebra
Mountain Zebra
Plains Zebra
(3) Callosities on the insides of their forelegs, and sometimes hindlegs. They serve no apparent purpose and it is not known why they are there.
(4) The bit
(5) Stirrups

(6) The Grand National - held on the Saturday (last day) of the spring meeting at Aintree, near Liverpool.
(7) In hands, one hand being four inches
(8) Bucephalus
(9) Shire. The biggest horse ever, Sampson, a Shire, is said to have stood 21.2hh and weighed 3,360lb.
(10) 44mph

The pass mark is 11/21. How did you do?

Hay, you are not horsing around with these questions. I only got 3 right. You gotta rein in the difficulty of these questions, but thank you for posting this as it would behoove me to learn about these facts to impress my neigh-bors who love horses

 

[ChickenBrother]

(1) What are the four usual gaits of horses, in order of increasing speed? (Five Marks - one for the order)
(2) What are the seven extant species of equines? (Seven Marks)
(3) What are chestnuts, in an equine context?
(4) What is the part of tack that goes in a horse's mouth called?
(5) What are these?

Spoiler

(6) What is the biggest horse race in the world?
(7) In what units are horses' heights measured?
(8) What was Alexander the Great's horse called?
(9) What is the biggest horse breed?
(10) What is the highest speed a horse is recorded to have run at? (Two marks for the number to the nearest 1mph, one for within 5mph)

Spoiler: Answers

(1) Walk, trot, canter, gallop
(2) African Wild Ass
Horse
Kiang
Onager
Grévy's Zebra
Mountain Zebra
Plains Zebra
(3) Callosities on the insides of their forelegs, and sometimes hindlegs. They serve no apparent purpose and it is not known why they are there.
(4) The bit
(5) Stirrups

(6) The Grand National - held on the Saturday (last day) of the spring meeting at Aintree, near Liverpool.
(7) In hands, one hand being four inches
(8) Bucephalus
(9) Shire. The biggest horse ever, Sampson, a Shire, is said to have stood 21.2hh and weighed 3,360lb.
(10) 44mph

The pass mark is 11/21. How did you do?

1) walk, trot, gallop, ludicrous speed
2) horses, donkeys, zebras, giraffes, bronies, unicorns, triceratops
3) when a stallion tries to do chin nuts but is a short king
4) a bit
5) stirrups
6) Kentucky Derby
7) cubits
8) Quindarious Gooch
9) Clydesdale
10) 32 mph

7/21 Fuuuuuuck.

 

[TheTickG]

(1) What are the four usual gaits of horses, in order of increasing speed? (Five Marks - one for the order)
(2) What are the seven extant species of equines? (Seven Marks)
(3) What are chestnuts, in an equine context?
(4) What is the part of tack that goes in a horse's mouth called?
(5) What are these?

Spoiler

(6) What is the biggest horse race in the world?
(7) In what units are horses' heights measured?
(8) What was Alexander the Great's horse called?
(9) What is the biggest horse breed?
(10) What is the highest speed a horse is recorded to have run at? (Two marks for the number to the nearest 1mph, one for within 5mph)

Spoiler: Answers

(1) Walk, trot, canter, gallop
(2) African Wild Ass
Horse
Kiang
Onager
Grévy's Zebra
Mountain Zebra
Plains Zebra
(3) Callosities on the insides of their forelegs, and sometimes hindlegs. They serve no apparent purpose and it is not known why they are there.
(4) The bit
(5) Stirrups

(6) The Grand National - held on the Saturday (last day) of the spring meeting at Aintree, near Liverpool.
(7) In hands, one hand being four inches
(8) Bucephalus
(9) Shire. The biggest horse ever, Sampson, a Shire, is said to have stood 21.2hh and weighed 3,360lb.
(10) 44mph

The pass mark is 11/21. How did you do?

Didn't even know what equine meant. Not passing this one.

Number 5 is pushup handles though.

 

[Tone C]

Got 10/21 .

Couple of guesses that were right .

Something to be said for reading Westerns .

 

[PG29 red0 Jr]

6/21 ...............

1) Walk, trot, gallop
2) Horse
3) ?
4)
5) Stirrup
6) Kentucky Derby
7) Hands
8
9) Clydesdale
10) 50mph