4-H HORSE QUIZ BOWL STUDY GUIDE (Junior)
1.Which side is the off side of a horse?
Answer: The right side.
2.Which side is the near side of a horse?
Answer: The left side.
3.Does a horse have good eye sight?
Answer: No
4.How often should you feed your horse?
Answer: Twice a day.
5.What is the incorrect position for a person leading a horse?
Answer: In front of the horse.
6.What is the correct position for a person leading a horse?
Answer: Beside the horse.
7.Which is better – small nostrils or large nostrils?
Answer: Large nostrils
8.True or False. Horses can vomit.
Answer: False
9.Who is stronger, you or your horse?
Answer: Your horse
10.What is an incorrect way to hold your reins?
Answer: Wrapped around your hand.
11.You should keep _____ length between you and the horse in front of you.
Answer: One
12.What should you never lose when you are around your horse?
Answer: Your temper
13.What part of the saddle do you step in to get on a horse?
Answer: Stirrup
14.What is a female horse called?
Answer: Mare
15.What is a male horse called?
Answer: Stallion or gelding
16.What part of the bridle goes in the horse’s mouth?
Answer: The bit
17.What is a horse’s foot called?
Answer: Hoof
18.Do horses breathe through their mouth or their nose?
Answer: Nose
19.What gait should you use when going up or down a hill?
Answer: Walk
20.What gait should you use on pavement?
Answer: Walk
21.What is the small hump at the point of the should that the mount of the saddle sits on?
Answer: Withers
22.What is the condition called when a horses hooves are turned in?
Answer: Pigeon-toed
23.What is the condition called when a horses knees are together and hooves turned out?
Answer: Cow hocked
24.The space between a horses eyes should be broad or narrow?
Answer: Broad
25.True or False. All horses are gentle and don’t spook easily.
Answer: False
26.What is the part of the bridle you use to turn your horse?
Answer: The reins
27.What is it called when you have shoes put on your horse?
Answer: Shod
28.What does it mean when a horse’s ears are straight forward?
Answer: It is interested in something.
29.What does it mean when a horse’s ears are back?
Answer: It’s frustrated or upset
30.What type of memory do horses have?
Answer: Good, second only to elephants.
31.Does a horse have a good or bad sense of smell?
Answer: Good
32.What is a father horse called?
Answer: Sire
33.What does a barn sour horse do?
Answer: Always wants to turn back to where he started from.
34.What is a castrated stallion called?
Answer: Gelding
35.What is a male horse called when it is first born?
Answer: Colt
36.What is a female horse called when it is first born?
Answer: Filly
37.What is the term for getting on your horse?
Answer: Mounting
38.What should you do with your horse after a hard work out?
Answer: Cool out
39.What is the poll on a horse?
Answer: Top of the head just back of the ears
40.What is it called when you strap the front legs of a horse together to prevent him from leaving camp?
Answer: Hobbling
August 28, 2007