Horses

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1. In what Irish county was the legendary racehorse Red Rum born and bread?
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2. How many times did jockey Lester Piggot win the Epsom Derby?
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3. Name the only horse in the history of the Grand National Steeplechase to win the race three times?
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4. What 1945 movie starred Elizabeth Taylor, Mickey Rooney, Donald Crisp and Angela Lansbury?
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5. What type of equestrian equipment is an Eggbutt Snaffle?
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6. Whose TV theme song was the William Tell Overture?
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7. In proportion to their weight, who are stronger, men or horses?
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8. Which horse won her third successive Melbourne Cup in 2005?
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9. At what racecourse is Britains most famous horserace The Grand National, held?
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10. In what sport are spectators invited to walk the pitch and replace the divots during half time intervals?.
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11. On which day of the week is the Melbourne Cup traditionally run?
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12. What English actor wrote the novel Bring On The Empty Horses in 1975?
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13. What is the name of the giant wooden horse in Homers Iliad?
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14. In what movie did Robert Redford direct and star, in 1998?
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15. What famous TV horses real name was Bamboo Harvester?
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16. What is the name of the horse in the animated movie Toy Story 2?
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17. What is the name of the Lone Rangers horse?
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18. What movie is famous for the scene with the severed horses head in the bed?
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19. Name the Indian who joined forces with Sitting Bull at the Battle of Little Big Horn.
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20. What mail service began in 1860 in California?
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21. Which Roman Emperor made his favourite horse a consul in 41AD?
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22. What star sign is often depicted as a character that is half man half horse?
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23. How many months is the gestation period of a horse?
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24. Which equestrian rider won Olympic team gold for Australia in 92, 96, and 2000?
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25. In the TV series MASH, what was Colonel Potters horse called?
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26. What creature, portrayed as a white horse, does the Bible say became extinct when thrown from Noahs Ark?
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27. Tobey Maguire plays a jockey in which film about a champion racehorse?
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28. Which Shakespearean character exclaimed A horse! a horse! My kingdom for a horse!?
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29. What do you call combat between two mounted knights armed with lances?
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30. Beginning with the letter F, what name is given to a person who shoes horses?
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31. Which Australian racehorse was the first to exceed one million dollars in prize money?
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32. What flower is traditionally worn on Derby Day during Melbourne’s Spring Racing Carnival?
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33. Name the racecourse where the Melbourne Cup is held each year.
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34. Known as The Master, what jockey won five Kentucky Derbies and won the triple crown three times?
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35. What famous horse race is the oldest continually held sports event in the United States, running since 1875?
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1. What pee wee hockey team does Emilio Estevez coach in the 1992 movie?
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2. Which team won the 1993 to 1994 NHL Stanley Cup championship after a break of 54 years since their last win?
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3. In Ice Hockey, how many penalty minutes are usually given for fighting?
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4. Who won Ice Hockeys Conn Smythe Trophy as the most valuable player of the 2004 playoffs ?
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5. Who was Wayne Gretzkys hockey idol while growing up?
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6. What were the NHL team, the Carolina Hurricanes, know as before their name change in the fall of 1997?
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7. Which Ice Hockey player appeared in commercials for Lays potato chips with the catch-phrase Betcha cant eat just one?.
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8. Who were the first team to win the NHL Stanley Cup?
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9. What is the surname of the 6 brothers from a farm in Viking, Alberta who amazingly all played in the NHL during the 1982-83 season?
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10. What Ice Hockey team won the Stanley Cup for the 2003 to 2004 season?
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11. What Ice Hockey legend still holds the career record of 103 regular season shutouts?
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12. Name the last National Hockey League team to win two consecutive Stanley Cup Championships.
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13. What creature is the NHL mascot for the Detroit Red Wings?
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14. What NHL trophy is presented annually to the goal-scoring leader during the regular season?
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15. What ice hockey team used to be called the Toronto Arenas, then the St. Patricks, before claiming their current name?
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16. In ice hockey, what do you call the large rectangular pad attached to the front of the goalie’s stick hand?
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17. What Ice Hockey player finished his career with a record 221 fights and 3,966 minutes in penalties?
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18. In what city is the worlds major Hockey Hall of Fame located?
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19. On February 7 1976, who was the first NHL player in the history of the game to record ten points in a single game?
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20. What legendary Ice Hockey player was know as Mr. Hockey?
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21. What pee wee hockey team does Emilio Estevezs character coach in the 1992 movie?
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22. What Kurt Russell movie is based on the true story of the 1980 United States Olympic Hockey Team who defeated the mighty Russians?
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1. How many legs does a spider have?
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2. What insect can lift 50 times its own weight, and always falls over on its right side when intoxicated?
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3. What trait of the Jesus Bug prompted its apt name?
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4. How many times can a honey bee sting a human before dying?
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5. In advertising, whos Bad and mean and mighty unclean?
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6. What Franz Kafka novel has Gregor Samsa waking up as a gigantic insect?
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7. What musical instrument comes from the Hawaiian word for jumping flea?
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8. Female honeybees that receive royal jelly throughout their larval stage develop into what?
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9. What type of insects are emeralds, darts, hawkers, clubtails, biddies, and skimmers?
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10. Which insect is popular with gardeners because it feeds on aphids?
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11. What type of creature cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body The female initiates sex by ripping the males head off.
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12. Which insect can live for over a week with its head cut off?
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13. What do you call a person who keeps bees for a living?
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14. What creatures are ‘Rear Admiral’, ‘Pearly Eye’, and ‘Bronze Copper’ all types of?. . .
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15. How many pairs of wings do fleas have?
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16. The cane toad was introduced into Australia to get rid of which pest?
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17. True or false: statistically, you are more likely to be killed by a Champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.
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1. In The Simpsons episode Lisas Sax, what were the family saving for when they bought Lisas saxophone instead?
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2. Which instrument was invented first, the fiddle or the violin?
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3. What musical instrument comes from the Hawaiian word for jumping flea?
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4. Which instrument did Madonna play in the band The Breakfast Club?
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5. What did Adolphe Sax invent?
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6. What musical instrument does Manuel play in Fawlty Towers?
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7. According to legend, who played his violin during the burning of Rome?
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8. Jazz music great Louis Armstrong is best remembered for playing which instrument?
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9. Starting with the letter M what instrument is used to mark musical tempos?
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10. What traditional instrument does Sharon Corr of The Corrs play?
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11. What musical instrument did actor Keanu Reeves play for the band ‘Dogstar’?
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12. Musician Ellas Bates is better known by which nickname, which is also the name for a one-stringed African guitar?
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