A very Horsy Quiz

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1. According to Homer, by what trick did Greek armed warriors gain access to Troy?	1 A wooden horse
2. Who owned which horse? a. Bucephalusa a. Don Quixote b. Copenhagen b. Dick Turpin c. Rosinante c. Roy Rogers d. Trigger d.The Lone Ranger e. Black Bess e.Alexander f. Silver f. Wellington	a. Alexander b. Wellington c. Don Quixote d. Roy Rogers e. Dick Turpin f. The Lone Ranger
3. The Draisienne, an early form of the bicycle, was also known by what two-word alliterative phrase?	3 Hobby horse
4. Which English king, according to Shakespeare, cried 'A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse'?	4 Richard III
5. In the prisoner-of-war escape novel by Eric Williams, what was 'the wooden horse'?	5 Gymnastic vaulting box
6. What two-word colloquial term was often used to describe an early railway engine?	6 Iron horse
7. Approximately, what was the British measure of 'one horsepower' worth expressed in kilowatts?	7 0.745kw
8. What is the White Horse at Uffington?	8 A prehistoric chalk carving
9. Which Roman emperor made his favourite horse a consul?	9 Caligula
10. What colours were the horses of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, and what did they signify?	10 White - conquest Red - war Black - famine Pale - death

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