I need your HELP please creating some questions

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Hi Viewers,

Can you get your thinking caps on please?

I need your HELP please creating some questions (with answers) for a local exhibition my bridleways group will be attending. The weirder (and most likely to interest children?) the better.

Many thanks - much apprecaited.
 
Ok, I've had two glasses of wine and I should have been in bed two hours ago but, Questions about what and whats the forum for? Sorry but blonde and thick!
 
I've had too much wine too! Was involved with bridleways for years, and can't think of a single oddball question/answer on those lines. But, nothing to do with horses, I heard this while going round The Royal Pavilion in Brighton this week:

Q. Where does the expression "to have a long face" come from?

A. From the days when women wore very heavy make-up, based on wax. When their faces got hot from all the candles at parties the wax melted and their wax faces slowly slipped down their real faces.

Must have another glass of wine. Good night!
 
I hope you both enjoyed your vino last night and don't have too much of a hangover! (lal).

We need questions on the lines of.....

Q. How many hours in 24 does a horse or pony typically sleep?
A. About three hours only! But they have a special mechanism in their legs which can lock them in a standing position so that the horse can doze from time to time during the rest of the time. This probably results from when horses were wild animals and had to be able to run away from predators quickly. It takes a bit of time for half a ton of horse to get up off the ground after sleeping by which time they could have been killed!

Q. Horses have a fist size pouch as part of the tube that leads into your head from your outer ear (the Eustachian tube). What is the only other animal to have a guttural pouch?
A. The tree shrew! What the guttural pouch is for is a bit of a mystery although recent research suggests that it might be to do with the cooling mechanism of the horse after exercise.

Q. Can you ride on a BOAT?
A. Yes! BOAT is short for Byway Open To All Traffic; the name says it all. ‘Traffic’ includes walkers, horse riders and cyclists and unfortunately for these users, 4WD vehicles often ruin the surfaces of these paths by off-roading in wet weather. The drivers have more fun when the paths are muddy; so they drive up and down to make them muddy!

Other questions:
Who can use footpaths and who can use bridleways?
Where is a frog on a pony?
What should riders and their horses wear when they are out hacking so they can be seen?

I would be really grateful for some help. Thanks
 
Q: In the wild, who is the herd leader?
A: The mare (most children would probably say the stallion). A head mare would control who came in and out of the herd, and would dismiss ones she did not like to the outer circle (1st ones to be eaten!!).
 
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