Famous Real and Fictional Horses

Question 1

Chincoteague pony who inspired a children’s novel series written by Marguerite Henry

Answer 1

Misty of Chincoteague

Question 2

American Thoroughbred who raced after WWI and is widely considered one of the greatest racehorses of all time. Several sports publications, including Sports Illustrated, ESPN, and the Associated Press, voted him the outstanding horse of the 20th century. Sire of War Admiral and grandsire of Seabiscuit.

Answer 2

Man o’ War

Question 3

Palomino horse made famous in American Western films with his owner and rider, cowboy star Roy Rogers.

Answer 3

Trigger

Question 4

Thoroughbred stallion who is the namesake of the famous race at Pimlico; sired by Lexington

Answer 4

Preakness

Question 5

In Greek mythology, the divinely-bred, extremely swift immortal horse.

Answer 5

Arion

Question 6

The famous war horse of Napoleon I of France, believed to be the horse in Jacques-Louis David’s Napoleon Crossing the Alps. Named after a battle through which he carried his rider safely, He was imported to France from Egypt.

Answer 6

Marengo

Question 7

The steed of Simon Bolivar, the liberator of Latin America, gifted to him by a peasant woman named Casilda. His horseshoes are on display at the Mulao Museum.

Answer 7

Palomo

Question 8

American Thoroughbred racehorse who, in 1973, became the first Triple Crown winner in 25 years. His record-breaking victory in the Belmont Stakes, which he won by 31 lengths, is widely regarded as one of the greatest races of all time.

Answer 8

Secretariat

Question 9

Stallion referred to as the blue horse in ballads and poems. He belonged to a Rajput King of India Maharana Pratap and was injured and killed in the Battle of Haldighati against the Mughals, after which erected a monument to him.

Answer 9

Chetak

Question 10

The horse of Alexander the Great, and one of the most famous horses of antiquity. Ancient accounts state that he died after the Battle of the Hydaspes in 326 BC, in what is now modern Punjab Province of Pakistan

Answer 10

Bucephalus

Question 11

The name of Roland the paladin’s trustworthy and swift steed in the stories from the chansons de geste; first mentioned in The Song of Roland

Answer 11

Veillantif

Question 12

The fictional eponymous black stallion of the 1950s TV series, “The story of a horse…and a boy who loves him” (Joey Clark Newton)

Answer 12

Fury

Question 13

The two horses of George Washington during the Revolutionary War

Answer 13

Blueskin (appears most often in portraits) and Nelson (preferred in battle)

Question 14

The race of highly-intellectual talking horses in Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels. (Their humanoid Yahoos were violent animals treated like beasts of burden.)

Answer 14

The Houyhnhnms

Question 15

The Duke of Wellington’s war horse, which he most famously rode at the Battle of Waterloo.

Answer 15

Copenhagen

Question 16

An undefeated 18th-century British Thoroughbred racehorse who won 18 races, including 11 King’s Plates. After retiring from racing he became a very successful sire and today appears in the pedigree of most modern Thoroughbreds.

Answer 16

Eclipse

Question 17

The fictional horse of Michael Morpurgo’s War Horse, the story of a horse purchased by the Army for service in World War I France and the attempts of young Albert, his previous owner, to bring him safely home.

Answer 17

Joey

Question 18

The on-screen companion of singing cowboy Gene Autry in 79 films between 1935 and 1952, and 91 television episodes of The Gene Autry Show between 1950 and 1955. In addition, he starred in 26 episodes of his own television series in 1955 and 1956.

Answer 18

Champion the Wonder Horse

Question 19

In Scottish folklore, the shape-shifting water spirits inhabiting the lochs and pools who usually appear as a horses and who prey on humans

Answer 19

kelpies

Question 20

Fictional horse from National Velvet, a 1944 American film starring a young Elizabeth Taylor and based on the novel of the same name by Enid Bagnold, published in 1935.

Answer 20

The Pie

Question 21

In Norse mythology, Odin’s eight-legged horse

Answer 21

Sleipnir

Question 22

General Ulysses S. Grant’s most famous horse during the American Civil War. Virtually all statues of Grant are of Grant astride him. (He was the son of Lexington, the fastest four-mile Thoroughbred in the United States and one of the greatest sires.)

Answer 22

Cincinnati

Question 23

Fictional horse in The Legend of Zelda series of video games who usually acts as the steed of Link.

Answer 23

Epona

Question 24

Eponymous horse of the 2004 biographical western film based on the legend of the American distance rider Frank Hopkins and his mustang, who raced in Arabia in 1891 against Bedouins riding pure-blooded Arabian horses.

Answer 24

Hidalgo

Question 25

Woody’s horse in the animated films Toy Story 2, Toy Story 3, and Toy Story 4.

Answer 25

Bullseye

Question 26

Fictional horse from the Walter Farley’s book series that begins with Alec shipwrecked on an island with the horse; the horse was portrayed by Cass Ole in the movies.

Answer 26

The Black Stallion

Question 27

Champion Thoroughbred racehorse who dominated Australian racing during the early years of the Great Depression. His mounted hide is displayed at the Melbourne Museum, his skeleton at Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa and his heart is currently on display at the National Museum of Australia, Canberra.

Answer 27

Phar Lap

Question 28

Fictional horse from C.S. Lewis’s A Horse and His Boy; a free talking beast in the Land of Narnia who was captured as a colt by the Calormenes,

Answer 28

Bree (short for Bree Hee Hinny Brinny Hoohy Hah)

Question 29

Fictional horse ridden by Gandalf the White in The Lord of the Rings series; of the race of the Mearas, lord of all horses

Answer 29

Shadowfax

Question 30

She served in numerous combat actions during the Korean War, carrying supplies and ammunition (often on her own) and was also used to evacuate wounded. She was wounded in combat twice, given the battlefield rank of corporal in 1953, and then a battlefield promotion to sergeant in 1954, several months after the war ended. She also became the first horse in the Marine Corps known to have participated in an amphibious landing, and following the war was awarded two Purple Hearts as well as other military honors.

Answer 30

Sergeant Reckless

Question 31

War horse was whose story was told by General Jack Seely in his 1934 book. His exploits on the Western Front, including during the battles of Ypres and Somme, earned him the epithet ‘the horse the Germans could not kill.’

Answer 31

Warrior

Question 32

Champion thoroughbred racehorse in the United States who became the top money winning racehorse up to the 1940s, as noted in films and books. He beat the 1937 Triple-Crown winner, War Admiral, by 4 lengths in a 2-horse special at Pimlico and was voted American Horse of the Year for 1938.

Answer 32

Seabiscuit

Question 33

Fictional horse from the 1941 novel by Mary O’Hara, about Ken McLaughlin, the son of a Wyoming rancher, and his horse; the novel was adapted for movies and TV.

Answer 33

(My Friend) Flicka

Question 34

The fictional horses of the characters The Lone Ranger and Tonto

Answer 34

Silver (The Lone Ranger) and Scout (Tonto)

Question 35

The three founding sires of modern Thoroughbred horse racing bloodstock

Answer 35

The Darley Arabian, the Godolphin Arabian and the Byerley Turk (In 95% of modern Thoroughbred racehorses, the Y chromosome can be traced back to the Darley Arabian.)

Question 36

Fictional horse of the 1877 children’s novel written by Anna Sewell, which highlighted issues of animal welfare and is credited with ending the use of ‘bearing reins.’

Answer 36

Black Beauty

Question 37

American Triple Crown-winning Thoroughbred racehorse who won 16 consecutive races in major stakes race competition in 1948-1951. He was the first horse in history to win one million dollars.

Answer 37

Citation

Question 38

American Thoroughbred racehorse, best known as the fourth winner of the American Triple Crown and Horse of the Year in 1937, and rival of Seabiscuit in the ‘Match Race of the Century’ in 1938.

Answer 38

War Admiral

Question 39

A mixed-breed horse who was the sole survivor of General George Armstrong Custer’s detachment of the United States 7th Cavalry at the Battle of the Little Bighorn.

Answer 39

Comanche

Question 40

Don Quixote’s horse in the novel by Miguel de Cervantes; like Don Quixote, he is awkward, past his prime, and engaged in a task beyond his capacities

Answer 40

Rocinante