Quiz  /  Thereby Hangs a Tail: Famous Horses

  • 1. 
    The Lone Ranger’s Potawatomi sidekick, Tonto, had a horse named what?

  • Pecos Bill
  • Old Paint
  • Little Bit
  • Scout

  • 2. 
    Which of the following famous racehorses does not have a biopic?

  • War Admiral
  • Ruffian
  • Seabiscuit
  • Secretariat

  • 3. 
    A mustang known as Comanche was the mount of which well-known commander?

  • George Custer
  • Genghis Khan
  • Black Elk
  • Catherine the Great

  • 4. 
    About which horse did Jimmy Driftwood write a song, popularized first by Eddy Arnold and later by the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band?

  • Patches
  • Stewball
  • Old Paint
  • Tennessee Stud

  • 5. 
    Which 19th-century children’s classic by Anna Sewell features a horse?

  • Black Beauty
  • The Red Pony
  • My Friend Flicka
  • National Velvet

  • 6. 
    What’s the name of a mid-20th-century TV show that featured a talking horse?

  • Three’s Company
  • Mr. Ed
  • Rocky and Bullwinkle
  • Petticoat Junction

  • 7. 
    What’s the name of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee’s best-known horse?

  • Traveller
  • Trigger
  • Pecos
  • Silver

  • 8. 
    Which one of the following was not a horse in George Orwell’s Animal Farm?

  • Clover
  • Boxer
  • Mollie
  • Snowball

  • 9. 
    The Norse god Odin rode a magical horse with eight legs. What was the horse’s name?

  • Tornado
  • Sleipnir
  • Svadilfari
  • Seabiscuit

  • 10. 
    The winged horse Pegasus belongs to the mythology of which culture?

  • Indian
  • Greek
  • Roman
  • Norse
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