Help Needed!

[dianchi]

Hi Guys,

Right i need 20 horse based questions- as hard as you like.

Im doing a mastermind quiz on sunday and three people have picked horses as their specialist subject!!!!!

Any random hard or easy questions pls-plus answers im testing my knowledge tonight!!!!

Chocolate and wine to all those who help!

 

[bexandspooky]

What was the name of Napoleons horse and what breed was she?

No cheating - make a guess and i'll tell you the answer!

 

[dianchi]

Andaulsian?

 

[allijudd]

name all the bones in the foot

 

[dianchi]

Answers would help!!!!!

 

[bexandspooky]

Napoleons horse was a 14hh grey arab called marengo - apparently the horses skeleton is in a museum. and allegedly he was a crap rider!!

 

[Grumpy Herbert]

And the dish Chicken Marengo was named after the horse, I believe!!!

(Please correct me if I'm wrong)

 

[Natch]

Dig out Shisdair's quiz posted on here a while ago - that was hard!!

 

[jesterfaerie]

When counter-cantering clockwise around an arena, what would the sequence of footfalls be?

* This question was taken from Shilasdair's quiz.

 

[bexandspooky]

So long as it was named after the horse, not made out of the horse, that is ok!!

 

[zigzag]

What was the name of the first horse I ever rode?

 

[VRIN]

Thought I had sent a question but it doesn't seem to be there..
When did Mary King first win badminton and on which horse ... King William 1992

Or
How many times has she won Badminton - twice King william 1992 and 2000 on Star Appeal

 

[Bananarama]

Your horse pulls up lame after a gallop, her lower leg is hot and swollen, what is probaly wrong?
Tendon Strain

 

[DuckToller]

How many, according to Tennyson, rode into the Valley of Death?
600 (or far too many accordingly to a wise-cracking pony clubber at our area quiz).

Alexander the Great's horse was called - Bucephalus

Who won the 2008 Grand National (well at least you would be topical!)

How many native breeds are there in the British Isles? 9

What animals were first kept in the Royal Mews? Hawks.

Can't claim credit for most of these, just trying to remember some from quiz.

What mark is given to a movement that is ' sufficient' in a dressage test? 5