Test Your Equine Knowledge!

This quiz is for those who are bored, want to learn, or want to test their knowledge! I hope you enjoy this quiz, I spent my whole morning on this. Yeah.

Horses, you say? You've come to the right place! How about taking this quiz and testing yourself? You might learn some new things, or you'll just find out that that one article you read was completely false. Sucks that you used it for your report.

Created by: EquineFreak

First of all, do you like horses?
- Yas
- No
A horse can sleep...
- Standing
- Laying down
- Both
Horses can dream
- Yes
- No
A horse can run shortly after birth.
- Yes.
- No.
How long is a DOMESTIC horse's lifespan?
- About 25-30 years
- 20 years. Exactly.
- 35 years. About.
A 19th century horse named 'Old Billy' is said to have lived how long?
- 65 years
- 57 years
- 62 years
- He died in the womb
Horses have around ____ bones in their skeleton.
- 397 bones
- 280 bones
- 115 bones
- 205 bones
Over how long have horses been domesticated?
- 9000 years
- 5000 years
- 3000 years
At a gallop, what is the average speed of a horse?
- 15-20 mph
- Just a note. Mph stands for miles per hour
- 25-30 mph
- 40-45 mph
What is the mass of a fully grown horse? (lbs means pounds)
- 1,000 - 2,000 lbs
- 840 - 2,200 lbs
- 100 - 200 lbs
What did the horse evolve from?
- A small, multi-toed rabbit
- A chicken
- Eohippus
- The Zebra
What is a sulky?
- A sad horse
- An irish horse
- A small, lightweight cart
- A large barrel of water given to horses in the racing business
A horse's scientific name:
- Equine
- Equus Ferus
- Equus Calibera
- Equidae Hoofus
True or False: In 1897, the Nevada legislature passed a law allowing any citizen to shoot a wild horse on sight.
- True
- False
A female horse:
- Filly
- Mare
- Filly, Mare
- Foal, Mare
A male horse:
- Colt, Stallion
- Colt, Gelding
- Colt, Stallion, Gelding
- Foal, Gelding
A castrated male horse:
- Stallion
- Gelding
- Colt
To castrate a stallion means:
- To wean him off milk
- To make him unable to reproduce
- To kill him
When do horses stop growing?
- 10 years
- 4, 5 or 8 years
- 3, 6 or 9 years
- 3 years
When do horses have their full mouth of adult teeth?
- 3 years
- 5 years
- 8 years
- 1 year
True or False: When horses look like they’re laughing, they’re actually engaging in a special nose-enhancing technique known as “flehmen,” to determine whether a smell is good or bad.
- False
- True
- Flehmen isn't real
Last question: Horseback riding is-
- Not easy
- Easy
- A sport
- Not a sport
- A sport, and very hard

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